Basha Dam to be completed on time

Asad Umar

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar on Thursday reiterated that Diamer Basha Dam will be completed on time, ARY News reported.

Presiding over a high-level meeting to review progress on Diamer Basha Dam, Asad Umar directed to expedite the pace of work on the project.

Matters pertaining to land acquisition for the dam, contracts for construction and other issues were came under discussion in the meeting.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, Gilgit-Baltistan CM Hafiz Hafeezur Rehman and other high officials attended the meeting through video-link.

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Earlier on March 6, Federal Minister for Planning Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar had announced that 25 water reservoir projects would be completed during the ongoing year.

The government had already utilized 42 percent of the funds earmarked for the water resources’ projects that is upto Rs 20 billion during the eight months of this year, said the federal minister while chairing a meeting to review projects of the water resources ministry.

The meeting was also attended by chairman Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) and officials from water resources and planning ministries.

138 Pakistanis died from coronavirus in different countries: FO

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Thursday said at least 138 Pakistanis have died from the coronavirus in different countries.

“Most countries do not give ethnicities of those who succumbed to Coronavirus. Most figures shared are informal and anecdotal as to how many Pakistanis or Pakistani origin people have died,” Spokesperson Ayesha Farooqui said at a weekly media briefing.

According to an unofficial estimate, she added, a total of 138 Pakistanis or Pakistani origin people in different countries of the world have died due to COVID 19.

To a question about how many Pakistani families approached the foreign office and Pakistani missions for evacuation of dead bodies who died due to coronavirus, the spokesperson said standard operating procedure (SOPs) have been devised by the National Institute of Health (NIH) for repatriation of dead bodies. These details are available on the dedicated website of COVID-19, she added.

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She said over the past few days as part of the third phase of repatriation plan that commenced April 20, 81 nationals were repatriated from South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho.

From the UAE, 1453 nationals have been repatriated through six flights on April 20, including 100 prisoners, she detailed, adding from the Maldives, nine stranded Pakistani nationals were brought home safely on April 22.

“So far the total number of our nationals brought back home in the current third phase of the plan stands at 5079.” Ms Farooqui said.

“In addition to this, in the last few days 41 stranded Pakistanis were brought back from India through the Wagha border; 195 truck drivers came through Afghanistan on 17 April, as well as over 1000 other stranded Pakistanis came home through the Pakistan Afghanistan border. That brings a total of 1254 nationals that came home through our land borders in the last few days.”

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