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World Bank approves USD 1 billion additional funding for Dasu Hydropower P
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The World Bank has approved USD 1 billion in additional funding for the Dasu Hydropower Project (DHP) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Upper Kohistan district in Pakistan, reported Dawn.
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Pak: Restrictions imposed on movement of Chinese nationals sans armoured v
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
The heightened security measures come in the wake of a recent incident wherein a convoy of Chinese engineers working on the Dasu hydropower project in Shangla district was targeted in a suicide attack, resulting in casualties.
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Pakistan: Vehicle carrying Chinese nationals was not even bulletproof, say
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
The report revealed that the bus targeted in the attack was travelling at a distance of 15 feet from the other bus and fell into a 300-foot-deep ditch after a suicide bomber crashed his explosives-laden vehicle into the vehicle carrying the victims on the Karakoram Highway.
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Work on Dasu hydropower project in Pakistan suspends over not meeting peop
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The families affected by the Dasu hydropower project in Pakistan announced that work on the 4380 megawatts energy initiative would remain suspended until Wapda fulfils its commitments regarding land acquisition and financial package, reported Dawn.
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Pakistan: Families affected by Dasu hydropower project threaten to block w
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The families affected by the Dasu hydropower project in Pakistan on Friday warned that if their issues aren’t addressed by the authorities, they would block work on the energy initiative, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: Chinese man arrested on blasphemy charges released on bail
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A foreign national on the Dasu hydropower project in Kohistan district, who had been detained after a crowd accused him of committing blasphemy earlier this month, was ordered to be released by Judge Sajjad Ahmad Jan, reported The News.
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Pak: Chinese national faces life-threatening moment over blasphemous remar
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
As per initial reports, labourers at the place were enraged because of his grumbling that "precious time" was being lost due to prayer breaks, and an ensuing heated conversation.
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Chinese national faces blasphemy charges in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The recent detention of a Chinese national in Pakistan has sent shockwaves through the international community. Tian, in charge of heavy machinery, for China Gezhouba Group Company at the World Bank-financed, Dasu hydropower project in the Kohistan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was detaine
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Pakistan: Chinese national arrested for blasphemy denies allegations in co
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The Chinese national, who works as head of heavy transport at a major hydropower project, was accused on April 15 of insulting Prophet Muhammad for allegedly urging workers to speed up their pace of work as they took a prayer break, Al Jazeera reported.
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Chinese workers unsafe in Pakistan amid blasphemy accusations
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
An unnamed Chinese national, working on the Dasu Hydropower Project in the north was on April 17 taken into protective custody and flown out to safer Abbottabad after Pakistani workers on the project accused him of blasphemy.
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Drivers of Dasu Power Project go on strike to demand payment of arrears
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The drivers of rented vehicles didn't take foreigners to their respective working sites of the 4320 megawatts Dasu Hydropower Project which affected the work on the mega energy project being executed in the Upper Kohistan district with financial assistance from the World Bank and other lendi
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Power generation from Pakistan's Dasu Hydropower Project Stage-I to begin
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The construction of Pakistan's Dasu Hydropower Project (Stage-I) will miss its earlier completion deadline. Power generation from the project will now commence by the end of 2026, reported The Nation
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