'China will make dam project India objects to part of its CPEC project in Pakistan', says Islamabad

NEW DELHI: Pakistan claimed on Monday that China has offered to make a dam project on the Indus River that India objects to, a part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), said the state-run Radio Pakistan. The information about the project, the Diamer-Bhasha Dam, was conveyed by Pakistan's state-run power utility to a committee of the country's National Assembly on Monday. Earlier this month, Pakistan's planning minister Ahsan Iqbal told Reuters in an interview that "Pakistan expects China to fund" the project. The Diamer-Bhasha Dam is a project that both the World Bank...