{"id":29814,"date":"2020-07-16T14:02:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T08:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29814"},"modified":"2020-07-16T14:02:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T08:32:51","slug":"with-chinese-aid-pakistan-kicks-off-construction-of-dam-in-pakistan-administered-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29814","title":{"rendered":"With China, Pakistan kicks off construction of dam in Pakistan Administered Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>The project will generate 4,500MW electricity and provide at least 16,000 jobs<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday kicked off construction work at the Diamer-Bhasha dam in Pakistan Administered Kashmir, notwithstanding India\u2019s objection to the China-backed mega project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Pakistan-China-Pak-1-1024x709.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21968\"\/><figcaption>Representational Picture<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addressing a public gathering in Chilas in Gilgit-Baltistan, Mr. Khan said the Diamer-Bhasha will be Pakistan\u2019s third largest dam after Tarbela and Mangla dams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project will generate 4,500MW electricity and provide at least 16,000 jobs. It is expected to be completed by 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pakistan government in May signed a whopping \u20b9442 billion contract with a joint venture of a Chinese state-run firm and a commercial arm of Pakistan\u2019s military for the construction of the Diamer-Bhasha dam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese state-run firm China Power holds 70% and the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), a commercial arm of the Armed Forces of Pakistan, 30% share in the consortium that will build the dam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan\u2019s Council of Common Interests (CCI) approved the project for construction in 2010, but it suffered delays because of international lending agencies which remained associated with the project but later backtracked because of opposition from India as major part of the dam is located in Gilgit-Baltistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his address, Mr. Khan lamented that building of this dam was delayed while the previous governments started building thermal power stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe decision to build this dam was taken 50 years ago. There can be no better site for constructing a dam, it is a natural dam. Forty, 50 years ago this was decided, and work on the project has begun today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He announced plans to build more dams on rivers to get cheap energy and decrease the pressure on foreign exchange to buy foreign fuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The completion of the dam would increase Pakistan\u2019s storage capacity from 30 to 48 days and make power generation facilities an attractive future investment by the private sector to add 4,500MW of additional electricity to the national grid, according to a report in Dawn newspaper in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Khan said that hydropower projects would also be helpful to reduce global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was accompanied by Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and ISI chief Lt Gen Faiz Hamid besides Minister for Water Faisal Vawda and other senior officials.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project will generate 4,500MW electricity and provide at least 16,000 jobs Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday kicked off construction work at the Diamer-Bhasha dam in Pakistan Administered Kashmir, notwithstanding India\u2019s objection to the China-backed mega project. Addressing a public gathering in Chilas in Gilgit-Baltistan, Mr. Khan said the Diamer-Bhasha will be Pakistan\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}