On 26 March 2024, in Bisham Tehsil, Shangla District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, a suicide bomber attacked a bus transporting five Chinese engineers and their Pakistani driver on their way to the

Dasu Dam The Dasu Dam is a large hydroelectric gravity dam currently under construction on the Indus River near Dasu in Kohistan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. It is developed by Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda), ...

, killing all of them. The bomber rammed an explosive-filled car into the bus that was travelling from Islamabad to

Kohistan Kohistan ( fa, کوہستان, ), also transliterated Kuhistan, Kuhiston, Quhistan, may refer to: In Afghanistan *Kohistan District, Kapisa, Kapisa Province ** Kohistan Hesa Awal District, a district in Kapisa Province, created within the form ...

on the Karakoram Highway. No group has taken responsibility for the attack. The Taliban-led government of Afghanistan also rejects Afghan involvement in the attack. This was the third attack on Chinese interests in Pakistan in the past week, as a Pakistani naval base and a port used by China were also attacked by

Baloch separatist __NOTOC__ Baloch nationalism ( Baloch: راج دۏستی بلۏچی) asserts that the Baloch people, an ethnic group native to Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan are a distinct nation, and that their ethnicity overrides religious loyalty. The origins o ...

s. The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan told Chinese nationals in Pakistan to stay alert. Aftab Khan Sherpao, Central Chairman of

Qaumi Watan Party Qaumi Watan Party ( ps, قومي وطن ګوند or ; ur, قومی وطن پارٹی), abbreviated as QWP and formerly called Pakistan Peoples Party–Sherpao (PPP–S), is one of the prominent political parties in Pakistan, that split away from ...

, expressed concern in a tweet, saing that the attack was "proof of the rising tide of terrorism." On 29 March, Chinese investigators arrived in Pakistan to join a probe into the attack. On 1 April, Pakistani police said that they had arrested 12 people in connection with the attack. On 23 May, the

Economic Coordination Committee The Economic Coordination Committee ( reporting name:ECC), ( ur, ) is a principle federal institution and a consultative forum used by the people-elected Prime Minister of Pakistan as its chairman, for concerning matters of state's economic secu ...

of the Cabinet decided to pay USD 2.58 million to the families of Chinese workers that died in the attack.

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