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ISLAMABAD<\/strong>: The United States government has so far committed $20.56 million for construction of the Diamer-Bhasha dam, according to a US embassy official.<\/p>\n

Out of this amount, $560,000 is for three additional feasibility studies for the dam, the official said.<\/p>\n

He also said that as part of its ongoing programmes in Pakistan, the United States government will spend $14 million on the installation of smart meters for gauging electricity use at substations and countering the problem of power theft.<\/p>\n

The Bhasha dam project has been revived by the current government. The Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Chairman Syed Raghib Abbas Shah recently announced that the Gilgit-Baltistan government had transferred 1,700 acres of land to WAPDA for the project, and further work was underway.
\nPakistan Tribune<\/strong><\/p>\n

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ISLAMABAD: The United States government has so far committed $20.56 million for construction of the Diamer-Bhasha dam, according to a US embassy official. Out of this amount, $560,000 is for three additional feasibility studies for the dam, the official said. He also said that as part of its ongoing programmes in Pakistan, the United States …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gilgit-baltistan"],"better_featured_image":{"id":33703,"alt_text":"","caption":"The Diamer dam is being constructed in the vicinity of Chilas and it likely to cause the entire region, including most parts of Chilas, to submerge ","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":640,"height":480,"file":"2013\/03\/Diamer-Dam.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Diamer-Dam-250x250.jpg","width":250,"height":250,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Diamer-Dam.jpg?resize=250%2C250&ssl=1"},"medium":{"file":"Diamer-Dam-450x337.jpg","width":450,"height":337,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Diamer-Dam.jpg?fit=450%2C337&ssl=1"},"large":{"file":"Diamer-Dam-600x450.jpg","width":600,"height":450,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Diamer-Dam.jpg?fit=600%2C450&ssl=1"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"Diamer-Dam-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Diamer-Dam-50x50.jpg"},"415x260":{"file":"Diamer-Dam-415x260.jpg","width":415,"height":260,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Diamer-Dam-415x260.jpg"},"150x150":{"file":"Diamer-Dam-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Diamer-Dam-150x150.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":3.3,"credit":"","camera":"DSC-H90","caption":"","created_timestamp":1356579293,"copyright":"","focal_length":"4.28","iso":"80","shutter_speed":"0.004","title":""}},"post":33702,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Diamer-Dam.jpg"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Diamer-Dam.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38159,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38158\/revisions\/38159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}