On Friday, a Pakistani official stated that China has stopped construction on two major dam projects in Pakistan after five Chinese engineers were killed in a suicide bombing in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
‘They have demanded new security plans from the government’, said a senior official from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Interior Department.
The Pakistani police on Tuesday said that a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into a convoy of five Chinese engineers working on a dam project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to the media reports, ‘the engineers were en route from Islamabad to
On Wednesday, Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan’s Prime Minister called for a joint probe by military and civilian officials into Tuesday’s attack.
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said, ‘Prime Minister Sharif had chaired a meeting of military and civilian officials that reviewed security arrangements for the protection of Chinese nationals and their interests’.
No group claimed accountability for Tuesday’s suicide bombing. In the past Dasu, the site of a major dam, has been attacked, with a bus blast in 2021 killing 13 people, nine Chinese among them, although no group claimed responsibility.
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