Pakistan, USAID to co-host Int’l investors’ conference on Bhasha Dam

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Nice initiative, but this thread tells completely different story: Bhasha Dam delayed till 2037

It is because government will build Basha dam with its own resources. And imagine ~850 Billion PKR means that even if Pakistan allocates its entire PSDP for Basha it would still take around 3 years to completely fund it.....

Total cost $8 billion billion over 10 years. Not a big deal because Bhasha is most important dam. And middle east banks will provide loans anyway. If Saudi Arabia can gift Pakistan $1.5 billion then loan is least of their worries.

The problem with Basha is that of disputed nature of the area. India Claims that GB is a part of AJK which leads to a freeze on multilateral funding (ADB,WB,IsDB etc). US can however, allow unilateral aid for building it