ISLAMABAD – The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has approved acompensation package worth around $11.6mn for the affected Chinesenationals of the Dasu Hydropower Project attack.
Reports in local media suggest that the meeting virtually presided over byFinance Minister Shaukat Tarin okayed a summary moved by the Ministry ofWater Resources for a compensation package for Chinese nationals.
The proposal of payment was approved as a goodwill gesture on the statelevel in light of Islamabad’s deep relationship with Beijing.
The Dasu hydropower project is part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor(CPEC), a $65 billion project aimed at connecting China’s northwesternXinjiang province to the port of Gwadar in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian on Thursday said the Dasuhydropower project has resumed. He also dismissed the media reportsclaiming the Chinese contractor demobilised from the Dasu dam project site.
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Earlier, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi revealed that theDasu bus attack that killed 13 people, including Chinese nationals, wasplanned by Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies. A passenger coachcarrying Chinese workers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province had come underattack in July last year.
China had asked Islamabad to probe all angles of the incident, and arrestthe perpetrators to protect the Chinese personnel and projects.
