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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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Pakistan: 30 people killed, 15 others injured in road accident in Khyber P
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Police and rescue officials reached the site after they were informed about the incident. The police shifted the injured and the bodies to the hospital.
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Afghanistan: Kidnapped child rescued from captivity, two arrested
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Two people were arrested and one child was rescued from the kidnapper's captivity.
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Pakistanis tired of unresponsive govt amid floods, pick up tools to pave t
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kohistan [Pakistan], September 3 (ANI): As Pakistan faces flood havoc, the people of Kohistan district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have let go of all hopes with the government to restore connections to other parts of the country and have started to repair the roads themselves, media r
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Pakistan: 50 houses washed away in Upper Kohistan due to flash flood
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 25 (ANI): At least 50 houses and mini-power stations were washed away on Sunday as flash floods wreaked havoc in Upper Kohistan.
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Women teachers face uncertain future after Taliban bans them from schools
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 3 (ANI): Women teachers, who were teaching in all-boys-school in Kabul, are facing an uncertain future after a ban was imposed on them from going to work by the Taliban-led Ministry of Education.
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Chinese firm reluctant to resume work on Dasu hydropower project
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Mansehra (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) [Pakistan], August 13 (ANI): After 13 people were killed in a bus blast at the Dasu Hydropower Project, including nine Chinese nationals on July 13, the Chinese firm is still reluctant to resume work.
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Pakistan: World Bank teams in Kohistan to review security arrangements at
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Mansehra (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) [Pakistan], August 5 (ANI): After 13 people were killed in a bus blast at the Dasu Hydropower Project, including nine Chinese nationals, two high-level World Bank (WB) missions arrived in Upper Kohistan to review the security arraignments on Tuesday.
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Two held in Pakistan for bus blast which killed Chinese nationals
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan] July 29 (ANI): Pakistan's Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has claimed to have arrested two men for their alleged involvement in the blasts on a bus carrying Chinese nationals in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhawa earlier this month and in Lahore's Johar Town in the last wee
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12 killed, including 9 Chinese in Pakistan bus 'blast'; China asks Pakista
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kohistan [Pakistan] July 14 (ANI): Death toll in the Pakistan bus "bombing attack" rose to 12 with three more Chinese nationals being killed after the vehicle in which they were travelling inside the country's Khyber Pakhtunkhawa fell into a ravine following an explosion, Chinese media repo
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6 Chinese among 10 killed in vehicle explosion near Pakistan's Dasu hydrop
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kohistan [Pakistan] July 14 (ANI): At least ten people, including six Chinese engineers and two Frontier Corps personnel, lost their lives and several others were injured on Wednesday following a bus explosion. The vehicle was carrying workmen to the Dasu Dam in the Upper Kohistan district o
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Pakistan: Rally, protest organised in Karachi against land-grabbing of Sin
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], June 7 (ANI): Rally and protests were organised in Karachi on Sunday against the land-grabbing of Sindh by Imran Khan-led government in the name of development by Jeay Sindh Freedom Movement (JSFM).
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