China ignores India over dam project in Pakistani Kashmir

Debt-laden Islamabad gets Beijing funds for joint venture opposed by Delhi

20200523 general view of a river in Pakistan-administrated Kashmir

Pakistan has secured funding from China for a major hydropower joint venture in Kashmir, but the loan terms have not been revealed.   © Reuters

ADNAN AAMIR, Contributing writer

KARACHI -- In a move that has seriously displeased India and tightened economic relations with China, Pakistan has awarded a contract to a Chinese-Pakistani joint venture to build a dam in the long-disputed Kashmir region.

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