ISLAMABAD: The government is expected to approve a compensation package worth $2.58 million for the Chinese company employees who lost their lives in the terror assault that occurred in Dasu on March 26.
The News was informed by a senior Cabinet Division source that the package will probably be approved by the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) at its upcoming meeting.
A report requesting $2.58 million in compensation for the five Chinese workers of China Gezhouba, a contractor engaged in the Dasu Hydropower project, has also been sent to the committee’s secretariat.
The Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) has recommended to the ECC the amount of compensation, taking into account purchasing power parity and GDP per capita.
The money will be deposited into the Pakistani embassy’s Beijing account, which will subsequently use the proper methods to distribute the funds to the victims’ families.
The recommendations from the IMC were released about two months after this week’s terror incident in Shangla killed at least six people, including one Pakistani and five Chinese engineers working on the Dasu Dam.
The passengers died on Tuesday when their bus was struck by an explosives-laden automobile on the Karakoram Highway in the Bisham region.
