Pakistan uses army to protect projects with Chinese workers after Dasu bus blast
- As authorities hunt down the culprits in the July 14 suicide attack, they are increasing security across all developments with Chinese workers
- No militant group has taken responsibility for the bombing, which happened in a region not known to have terrorist activity
The pair are thought to have coordinated with a suicide bomber who rammed an explosives-laden silver Honda City car into one of two buses on its way to dam worksites near the remote town of Dasu on July 14.
The buses, each carrying more than 30 people, were being escorted by two vehicles belonging to paramilitary forces and were heading to the World Bank-funded Dasu hydropower project being constructed by China Gezhouba Group Corp (CGGC).
Counterterrorism police in the eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday said they had detained two brothers from Pakistan’s western Balochistan province in connection with the Dasu attack. This came as counterterrorism authorities and the Pakistan military’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency were questioning another two men in Dasu, a small but busy town in the mountainous region of Kohistan.