Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday underscored the importance of affordable electricity and agricultural growth for the country’s self-reliance, directing the authorities concerned to expedite ...

Pakistan faces growing challenges in its water and hydropower projects due to severe funding shortages and escalating construction costs. Key projects, including the Dasu Hydropower Project and Diamer ...

THE World Bank has come under severe criticism from international development lenders for not funding the $12 billion Diamer-Bhasha dam, the ‘highest priority project’. According to reports, the ...

Pakistan’s major dams and water projects face decades-long delays due to funding shortages and rising construction costs.

Pakistan has been endowed with vast water resources which, if utilised effectively, can provide solutions to two of the country's most pressing concerns: the generation of affordable electricity and ...

The construction of Diamer-Bhasha Dam (DBD), which would produce 4,500MW electricity and store 8,000,000 acres feet of water has been put in jeopardy by the World Bank and the present chairman of ...

Hunza's Hotel Association, Traders' Association, political parties, and civil society organizations have all declared their unwavering support for the continuing demonstration in Diamer, where locals ...

ON one level at least, approval of the Diamer-Bhasha dam is good news for the country. With construction expected to begin in September next year and due to be completed in 2016 at a cost of $12.6bn, ...

Gilgit [PoGB] April 13 (ANI): Protests over the alleged denial of rights and compensation have pushed authorities to respond in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB), with demonstrators of the ...

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has allocated Rs 32 billion under Public Sector Development Programme for the year 2016-17 for construction of Diamer- Bhasha Dam. According to official sources here ...

On the 29th day of the ongoing Huqooq Do Dam sit-in, the protestors were increasingly vocal about their frustrations with the government's failure to implement the agreed-upon points. On its Facebook ...

Pakistan’s Minister of Energy, Awais Leghari, has stated that while the Diamer Bhasha Dam will significantly increase water availability, it will not provide cheap electricity. In a workshop on energy ...