KARACHI: Shanghai Electric’s 7-member delegation called on Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah at Chief Minister’s House here today.
According to details the Chinese Company will be investing an amount of US$ 4 billion at Thar Coal block one besides establishing two power plants of 1320 megawatts of electricity there.
Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah while speaking on the occasion stated that financial close of the project would be undertaken by the end of this year and held that would create jobs.
A relevant published earlier:
Supplying power from Thar to national grid is like taking a sore pill: Murad
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday said that the electricity being generated from Thar power plant supplying to the national grid is like taking a sore pill.
The chief minister was talking to media on Saturday while attending the Shah Latif Conference at Mohatta Palace in Karachi.
“We have spent one billion over the project for generation of electricity from Thar coal,” Murad Ali Shah said.
He said the power generation from Thar coal deposits was the vision of Benazir Bhutto.
Shah lamented that Sindh’s power, gas and other natural resources being plundered.
Responding to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s comment regarding ‘container’ and ‘food’ in Islamabad, Shah said, ” we have no need of Khan Sahib’s container and food”.
Replying a question he said, not a single project announced to be implemented or given any related detail for Rs. 162 billion funds, announced by the federal government.
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DADU: As a result of a collision between a car and a passenger coach four people were killed while 11 got injured this morning here at Indus Highway.
Dead and injured were taken to Civil Hospital here and a hospital in Nawabshah. According to details, the passenger bus was heading from Larkana to Karachi.
In another accident on Indus Highway in Karak, four people died while three others critically wounded. According to sources, four vehicles carrying loaded containers collided this morning. Those injured are being treated at Karak’s DHQ Hospital.
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