Dasu terror assault: $2.58m slated for approval by ECC for slain Chinese language employees

A senior official of the Cupboard Division advised native media that the Financial Coordination Committee (ECC) is prone to greenlight the bundle in its subsequent assembly.

The committee’s secretariat has additionally acquired a abstract looking for $2.58 million in compensation for the 5 Chinese language workers of China Gezhouba, a contractor firm engaged on the Dasu Hydropower undertaking.

The Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) has advisable the compensation quantity to the ECC based mostly on the GDP per capita and buying energy parity.

A compensation of Rs2.5 million has additionally been advisable for a Pakistani nationwide who was killed in the identical assault.

The quantity can be transferred to the account of the Pakistan embassy in Beijing, which is able to then switch the funds to the households of the victims by way of acceptable channels.

The IMC’s suggestions got here virtually two months after a terror assault in Shangla claimed the lives of no less than six individuals — 5 Chinese language engineers and one Pakistani — engaged on the Dasu Dam, earlier this week.

The victims had been killed when an explosive-laden car hit the bus carrying them on the Karakoram Freeway within the Bisham space on Tuesday.

Following the assault, civil work on the websites of the Dasu and Diamer-Bhasha Dams was briefly suspended by the Chinese language firms overseeing operations resulting from safety considerations.

Roughly 991 Chinese language engineers had been engaged on each initiatives, whereas the native employees was advised to remain at dwelling until additional directions.

Reacting to the lethal assault, Chinese language Overseas Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian termed the phobia bid an try and sabotage China-Pakistan relations.

“Beijing stays agency in its dedication to working with Islamabad in varied fields,” the official mentioned.