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  • Jan 11th, 2016
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A high level delegation, led by Federal Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Asif will leave for Tajikistan on Monday to participate in a two-day Joint Commission meeting being held at Dushanbe to finalise laying of transmission line for 1000MW electricity to Pakistan.

Chairman WAPDA, Chairman National Highway Authority (NHA) and Chairman NTC besides senior officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Water and Power and National Highway Authority Tajikistan would be part of the delegation.

The delegation would finalise the laying of transmission line of 500 KV to import 1000 MW hydel electricity under Central Asia South Asia (CASA-1000) project.

Work on the transmission line having a total length of 750 kilometer would be completed by year 2018 with an estimated cost of 1,160 million US dollars.

According to Embassy of Tajikistan, the said transmission line of 500 KV would also be utilised for transmitting more than 300 MW hydel electricity to Pakistan from another state of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan.

The feasibility report about the CASA 1000 project had already been completed and working on the laying of transmission line from Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan would begin from May this year according to the embassy.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will also participate in the transmission line laying of ceremony scheduled to be held in Tajikistan in May this year.

Copyright Associated Press of Pakistan, 2016


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