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1 year a change, 3 years a transformation! Fast development in Gwadar Port and pilot area in Free Zone. Let's compare some old pictures to latest ones of Gwadar Port. - , ...
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1 year a change, 3 years a transformation! Fast development in Gwadar Port and pilot area in Free Zone. Let's compare some old pictures to latest ones of Gwadar Port. - , ...
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Shipment M V CHANG HANG JIN HAI reached Port on 15 November 2017. Details are as follows, the vessel was Chinese, thus hoisted Chinese Flag. The 22 crew members on duty were also Chinese. The cargo shipment comprised of general contruction material, with Imo no.9628714, and call signal BUDJ.
GRT and NRT were 33736 and 19656 respectively. Master name is Xiong ying.
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Pakistan has withdrawn its request to include the $14-billion Diamer-Bhasha Dam in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework after Beijing placed strict conditions including ownership of the project, said Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) Chairman Muzammil Hussain on Tuesday.
“Chinese conditions for financing the Diamer-Bhasha Dam were not doable and against our interests,” said Hussain while briefing the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the status of the mega water and power project.
He said the Chinese conditions were about taking ownership of the project, operation and maintenance cost and securitisation of the Diamer-Bhasha project by pledging another operational dam.
These conditions were unacceptable, therefore, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi approved a summary to finance the dam from the country’s own resources, he said.
The issue of excluding the Diamer-Bhasha Dam from the CPEC framework also featured in the Cabinet Committee on CPEC which met last week.
The Wapda chairman and the water resources secretary informed the premier that the only way out was to fund the much-delayed project from domestic resources.
The sixth meeting of the Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) – the highest decision-making body of CPEC – had agreed to establish a mechanism to develop hydroelectric power projects along the northern side of the Indus River including the Diamer-Bhasha project, according to minutes of the deliberations.
Pakistan decided to take the dam off the table just days before the seventh JCC meeting, which is scheduled for November 21 in Islamabad. The JCC will review progress on the implementation of already approved projects and decide the fate of new schemes.
Currently, about 15 prioritised energy projects valuing at $22.4 billion and having 11,110-megawatt generation capacity are part of the CPEC framework. Among these, only two are hydroelectric power projects with cumulative capacity of 1,590MW. Most of the CPEC energy projects are based on coal.
Pakistan has been struggling to raise money from international institutions amid Indian opposition to the project. There were hopes that Pakistan may finally complete the project after including it in the CPEC framework whose worth has already swelled to $60 billion.
Ground-breaking of the Diamer-Bhasha Dam has been performed five times in the past 15 years.
Neither the World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB) nor China would finance the dam, therefore, the government decided to construct the reservoir from its own resources, said Water Resources Secretary Shumail Khawaja.
The Wapda chairman blamed the ADB for the delay, saying the bank first destroyed the project and later declined to provide loan. The ADB was of the view that the project was located in a disputed territory, he said.
The project will have the capacity to generate 4,500MW of electricity in addition to the storage capacity for six million acre feet of water, which the country desperately needs due to shrinking storages.
The Wapda chairman said the project cost would hover around $14 billion and the prime minister had agreed to split the scheme into dam storage and power generation.
Federal govt will treat all parts of the country equally: PM
According to the new financing plan, he said, the federal government would provide Rs30 billion per annum over the next nine years from the Public Sector Development Programme, taking total federal contribution to Rs270 billion.
Hussain said Wapda would generate 20% of equity from its own resources whereas financing for constructing power plants would be arranged from commercial sources.
Construction work on the dam site would begin next year and the government would complete it in nine years, he said. Work on the power generation site will begin two and a half years after the start of work on the dam.
The Wapda chairman said 969MW Neelum-Jhelum and 1,410MW Tarbela extension projects would be commissioned in February next year
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View of 357 Km Lahore Islamabad Motorway M-2 which was opened for traffic in Nov 1997.It was planned 1512 Km Peshawar Karachi Motorway in 1990 for Central Asia trade Corridor.
Now Pakistan has completed 693 Km Motorways. Next two year it will increased to 2400 Km Motorways under ...
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Approval of water and power plant construction in Gwadar Port-Free zone...
Mir Javed Khan Bizenjo Federal Minister Marie Time Affair issued instructions for the principle of the new Desalination Plant and the power plant in Gwadar Port-Free Zone. He directed these instructions by Chairman Zhang Baozhong (Zhang Baozhong) China's Overseas Holding Company (COPHC) and the Chairman of Gwadar Port Authority, visited the meeting in Karachi with Dostin Khan Jamal Danny. COPHC and GPA have prepared a plan in the Gwadar Port Free Zone in light of the direction of the Minister of Defense. 50 million gallons daily water supply and thirty megawatts of capacity The electricity house will be built. There is a severe scarcity of water in Gwadar city and normal life is severely affected.
At present, there is no plan for permanent water settlement on the basis of emergency departments. Therefore, Gwadar Port has been given the responsibility of the Ministry to provide immediate quantity in the clean water production by implementing the Free Zion Dieselian Plant Plan to the relevant government of Balochistan government so that the water in the city The severity of the problem of deficit can be reduced.
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Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Zubair Mehmood Hayat says Pakistan is not oblivious to its defense.
Addressing a two day conference in Islamabad on Tuesday, he said India is stoking chaos and anarchy in the region.
He said Indian intelligence agency RAW has established a special cell at a cost of 500 million dollars to sabotage the China Pakistan Economic Corridor. He said India is also fanning terrorism in Balochistan.
The Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee said that Pakistan will maintain minimum nuclear deterrence in the context of current regional situation.
He said resolution of long standing Kashmir dispute is vital for durable peace in the region
