The Pak-China joint energy group will begin its two-day meeting here on Monday to devise strategy for cooperation in the energy sector and meet Pakistan’s critical energy needs.
Federal Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar will lead Pakistani side, while Wu Guihui will lead the Chinese delegation in meeting. The high level Chinese delegation will reach Islamabad on Sunday (today). This will be the second meeting of Pak-China joint energy working group. The first one was held in Beijing in July last year.
Sources told INP that different proposals would be debated at the meeting for energy projects. Pakistan has sought Chinese technical and financial assistance to generate electricity through coal, hydel, thermal, nuclear plants and alternative sources of energy.
The projects proposed by Pakistan include 2,000MW from coal, 7,000 from hydel and construction and maintenance of transmission lines. The sources said that talks are also expected to cover exploration of oil and gas resources.
Talking about the meeting, Syed Naveed Qamar said the government was making all out efforts to overcome the energy crisis. He said energy projects are being fast tracked through Chinese support. He hoped that the projects being negotiated and implemented with Chinese cooperation would meet the current and future energy needs of the country.
