Bus carrying engineers reportedly exploded on Wednesday.
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Dasu Hydropower Project:
Chinese contractor’s bus meets an accident
July 14, 2021: A bus of the Chinese construction company China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC), carrying 41 persons including 36 Chinese, 2 FC personnel and 3 other Pakistanis, met an accident this morning on the way to construction site of Dasu Hydropower Project from the contractor's camp.
Consequently, 9 Chinese, 2 FC personnel and 2 other Pakistanis died, while 28 were injured. The rescue operation was immediately started by Dasu Hydropower Project authorities and the district administration, Upper Kohistan.
WAPDA Chairman Lt Gen Muzammil Hussain (Retd) rushed to Dasu and himself monitored the relief and rescue operation at the site.
The injured have been airlifted by Pakistan Army helicopters to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Gilgit despite harsh weather conditions in the area, while bodies are being shifted to Islamabad.
WAPDA Chairman has expressed gratitude to Pakistan Army for the prompt support in the relief and rescue operation. Meanwhile, district administration, Upper Kohistan and the law enforcement agencies have started their probe to ascertain cause of the accident.
Source: WAPDA
Chinese contractor’s bus meets an accident
July 14, 2021: A bus of the Chinese construction company China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC), carrying 41 persons including 36 Chinese, 2 FC personnel and 3 other Pakistanis, met an accident this morning on the way to construction site of Dasu Hydropower Project from the contractor's camp.
Consequently, 9 Chinese, 2 FC personnel and 2 other Pakistanis died, while 28 were injured. The rescue operation was immediately started by Dasu Hydropower Project authorities and the district administration, Upper Kohistan.
WAPDA Chairman Lt Gen Muzammil Hussain (Retd) rushed to Dasu and himself monitored the relief and rescue operation at the site.
The injured have been airlifted by Pakistan Army helicopters to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Gilgit despite harsh weather conditions in the area, while bodies are being shifted to Islamabad.
WAPDA Chairman has expressed gratitude to Pakistan Army for the prompt support in the relief and rescue operation. Meanwhile, district administration, Upper Kohistan and the law enforcement agencies have started their probe to ascertain cause of the accident.
Source: WAPDA
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The Chinese are not going to be happy. Both with the masterminds behind the attack and the incompetence of the current Pakistani security apparatus.
We might take it lightly the loss of our people but they don't.
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Routes being taken by the bus should've been under constant surveillance, especially somewhere like Kohistan, which has remained a terror hotbed in the region.
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Good luck convincing their civilian technical experts to come.
The wifey won’t be happy. Everyone is spooked.
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China to join Pakistan blast probe, backs away from calling it bomb attack
15 Jul 2021
BEIJING: China said on Thursday it will send a team to Pakistan to help investigate a blast on a bus that killed 13 people, including nine Chinese workers, after it backed away from an earlier assertion that the explosion was a bomb attack.
Zhao Lijian, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, told a regular briefing that China would cooperate closely with Pakistan in the investigation.
Wednesday's blast sent the bus crashing into a ravine in Khyber Paktunkhwa province in northwest Pakistan, where Chinese engineers have for several years been working on hydroelectric projects as part of Beijing's massive Belt and Road Initiative.
On Wednesday, Zhao had called the blast a "bomb attack" but Pakistan said a mechanical failure caused a gas leak that led to the explosion.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and urged Pakistan to investigate the blast but he stopped short of calling it an attack, according to a post on Thursday on the Chinese foreign ministry's website.
But Wang told Qureshi that if it was indeed a "terrorist attack", Pakistan should immediately arrest the culprits and punish them severely.
Wang, who is China's State Councillor and foreign minister, said "lessons should be learned" and both sides should strengthen security measures for China-Pakistan cooperation projects to ensure their safe and smooth operation.
The Chinese workers killed on the bus were employed at the Dasu hydroelectric project, part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a $65 billion investment plan aiming to link western China to the southern Pakistani port of Gwadar.
Wang and Qureshi spoke in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, on the sidelines of a foreign ministers meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
- Incident killed 13 people, including nine Chinese workers
15 Jul 2021
BEIJING: China said on Thursday it will send a team to Pakistan to help investigate a blast on a bus that killed 13 people, including nine Chinese workers, after it backed away from an earlier assertion that the explosion was a bomb attack.
Zhao Lijian, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, told a regular briefing that China would cooperate closely with Pakistan in the investigation.
Wednesday's blast sent the bus crashing into a ravine in Khyber Paktunkhwa province in northwest Pakistan, where Chinese engineers have for several years been working on hydroelectric projects as part of Beijing's massive Belt and Road Initiative.
On Wednesday, Zhao had called the blast a "bomb attack" but Pakistan said a mechanical failure caused a gas leak that led to the explosion.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and urged Pakistan to investigate the blast but he stopped short of calling it an attack, according to a post on Thursday on the Chinese foreign ministry's website.
But Wang told Qureshi that if it was indeed a "terrorist attack", Pakistan should immediately arrest the culprits and punish them severely.
Wang, who is China's State Councillor and foreign minister, said "lessons should be learned" and both sides should strengthen security measures for China-Pakistan cooperation projects to ensure their safe and smooth operation.
The Chinese workers killed on the bus were employed at the Dasu hydroelectric project, part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a $65 billion investment plan aiming to link western China to the southern Pakistani port of Gwadar.
Wang and Qureshi spoke in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, on the sidelines of a foreign ministers meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
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No no let Bajwa sahab sleep. Giving relief to Sharifs is more important for mil-establishment.
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Also after the findings of the 27th June incident in Karachi of R&AW involvement, nothing has been mentioned as to whether appropriate punishment has been meted out to those responsible. Talk about maintaining full spectrum deterrence!
The areas of baluchistan, Waziristan etc were always very restive since the 1950s. The Pakistan government had very limited powers in them. Now these areas are under control by the power of the gun. Does not mean that the locals dont consider it a occupation.
No point in blaming India as we share no borders with these areas and 85 % of Afghanistan is under Pakistan friendly Taliban control. Just follow the money and weapons trail. Who benefits from prolonged insecurity in Pakistan ?
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Pakistan has had a long history with IEDs.... It's as if all IED manufacturers of the world have used Pakistan as a testing ground. Countless officers, generals, foot soldiers, patrols and foreigners have succumbed to them. And yet still, here we are, exploding on top of them left and right. I think martyrdom on top of IEDs is a policy instrument of the establishment.
Each engineer should be transported on a Separate APC with a bottom armor made of Titanium, Uranium, Kevlar, Diamond, Carbon Fiber, Graphene and Adamantium composite/alloy. Because, our intelligence agencies and bomb disposal squads cannot keep up with the IED technology of TTP. Using the technology I suggested for use in APCs, will definitely help us prevent embarrassing moments like the one that happened recently. Plus, we might be able to save a few useless lives of those FC soldiers who die in Balochistan daily.
(PS. they are useless for the establishment)
Each engineer should be transported on a Separate APC with a bottom armor made of Titanium, Uranium, Kevlar, Diamond, Carbon Fiber, Graphene and Adamantium composite/alloy. Because, our intelligence agencies and bomb disposal squads cannot keep up with the IED technology of TTP. Using the technology I suggested for use in APCs, will definitely help us prevent embarrassing moments like the one that happened recently. Plus, we might be able to save a few useless lives of those FC soldiers who die in Balochistan daily.
(PS. they are useless for the establishment)
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