Pakistan to export 40 MW of electricity to Afghanistan 28.10.2005 ISLAMABAD: WAPDA has confirmed to the government that 40 MW of electricity could be exported to Afghanistan in response to a request by Kabul for electricity in its Khost province, a senior official told Daily Times. Afghanistan has been seeking the import of electricity from Pakistan for some time. The Ministry of Water and Power, at the request of the Planning Commission, asked WAPDA several months ago how much electricity could be exported to Afghanistan. WAPDA has given a positive response to the request and said it can export 40 MW of electricity to the Khost province of Afghanistan. “Afghanistan, for the first time, asked for electricity to be imported from Pakistan when President General Pervez Musharraf and his cabinet members, including the WAPDA Chairman Lt Gen (retired) Zulfiqar Ali Khan, visited Kabul on April 3, 2002.” Since then the issue has not been discussed because of the law and order situation in Kabul and a degree of resentment for Pakistan in Afghanistan. Now the situation has changed and Pakistan’s experts are working on the project to export electricity. WAPDA would lay down the transmission line from Miran Shah/Para Chinar to Khost and an expert team would finalize the plans with Kabul authorities for the transmission of the electricity from Miran Shah to Khost. However, both governments have not yet discussed the rates for electricity exported to Afghanistan. The source said WAPDA would also lay down a 132 KV transmission line from the Landikotal grid to the Afghanistan area nearby, where the country’s infrastructure for transmitting electricity is located. The official said that Afghanistan has also renewed its offer to WAPDA to rehabilitate the powerhouse and its workshop at Kabul and develop the country’s power distribution system. “WAPDA has agreed to execute all these projects,” he added. << | >> |
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