Islamabad: Chinese company that built Dasu Dam in Pakistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Saturday said it decided to suspend work after the explosion in the northern province killed several engineers.
On Wednesday, the passenger bus had exploded in Kohistan Regency on KP, killing 13 people, including nine Chinese engineers.
The explosion occurred when the bus was heading to Dasu.
“Because of the explosion attack on July 14, 2021, which had caused a very severe victim, the management of HPP CGGC Dasu has been forced to suspend the construction of the Hydropower Dasu project,” said China CGGC company in a statement, as quoted by Sputnik.
This project imagines the construction of a hydroelectric plant in the river near Dasu as part of the China-Pakistan (CPEC) economic corridor.
On Friday, China asked Pakistan to bring the perpetrators of justice “terrorist attacks.” Premier Chinese Li Keqiang raised this problem with Prime Minister Imran Khan during a telephone call, where he emphasized the need for Pakistan to “use all the necessary actions” to investigate the incident and resist the accountable perpetrators.
Previously today, Pakistani Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed said the perpetrators of the Dasu bus explosion would be exposed and taken to court at any cost.
Overcoming a press conference in Islamabad, he said a high level of investigation into the incident was ongoing.
He also told me that the Chinese team 15 members also arrived in Pakistan to investigate the Dasu explosion.