Dassu dam affectees vow to continue sit-in
(WorldNews Pakistan)

MANSEHRA: The affectees of the 4300 megawatts Dassu Hydropower Project on Saturday vowed to continue sit-in till the acceptance of their demands. “Though the federal government has been suffering financial loss of almost Rs750 million a day because of suspension of work on the project, it still hesitant to meet our demands, which were agreed by the then government in 2016,” Fazlur Rehman, a member of 80-member representative committee told a news conference in Barsen on Saturday. Other members of the committee who had been staging a sit-in for the last four consecutive days in order to the compel government to accept their demands were also present on the occasion. Fazlur Rehman...