No truth to reports of abandonment of Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project: FO.

ISLAMABAD -- The Foreign Office has dismissed reports about the abandonment of the Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project or the work on it coming to a halt.

The rebuttal came in response to a question about the progress on the project during a weekly news briefing. FO spokesperson Asim Iftikhar said that the reports are aimed at misleading the public and creating malicious propaganda to hurt Pakistan-China relations.

"There is no truth in any report of work stoppage or so-called abandonment. India is once again churning out false and baseless reports regarding the Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project," Iftikhar said.

He said that the authorities detected a fault in the project and started working to fix the fault in coordination with the concerned entity, Gezhouba Group of China.

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