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Pakistan to import 1000MW electricity from Turkmenistan

Dunya News

Pakistan will buy 1000 megawatts of electricity from Turkmenistan to overcome its power outage.

According to Ministry of Water and Power sources, the electricity import would cost two to three rupees per unit while the remaining amount would be invested over its transition.Under the project, Turkmenistan would provide thirteen-hundred megawatt electricity, out of which Afghanistan would import three hundred megawatt and Pakistan would import one-thousand megawatt electricity.The cost of the project is one billion dollar, while all the preparations are made for the required investment in the project. And the all the financial matter would be finalized till 2013, where the project would be completed in 2016.