Agreement signed to import 1300MW electricity from Kyrgyzstan‚ Tajikistan
- September 16, 2013, 7:26 pm
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ISLAMABAD, Sep 16 (INP) Pakistan on Monday signed an agreement to import thirteen hundred megawatt electricity from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to overcome power shortage in the summer season.
The agreement was signed by Pakistan‚ Afghanistan‚ Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan at a two-day meeting of Inter-Governmental Council of Central Asia South Asia‚ (CASA) transmission and trade project.
In his opening remarks on the occasion‚ Minister for Water Power Khawaja Asif said the project abbreviated as CASA1000 will bring in clean and affordable hydro-electricity to our energy starved national grid.
He said it was challenging project but is very much attainable if the goodwill of the four nations continued in the same manner as was evident today.
Later talking to newsmen‚ Afghanistan Minister for Energy and Water Al-Haj Mohammad Esmail said the project would further strengthen ties between the four countries and help boost their economies.
Work on the CASA project would start next year and is expected to be completed in two to three years.
