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Pakistan
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Iran, Pakistan finalise gas pipeline deal
Anita Joshua ISLAMABAD: A year after they decided to go ahead with the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project without India, the two countries on Sunday inked the last of a series of agreements needed to operationalise the deal. With the signing of the export deal in Tehran, Iran has now committed itself to supplying natural gas to Pakistan from 2014.
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Fuel cheaper in neighbouring countries, says BJP
Shoumojit Banerjee Patna: Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday said petroleum products in neighbouring countries were far cheaper and accused the Congress of
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Six megawatts power being generated through windmills
ISLAMABAD (May 13 2010): Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf Wednesday said that 6 megawatt electricity is being generated through windmills currently installed by Zorlu Energy Pakistan. While replying to the questions in the National Assembly, the Minster said that five installed windmill units are generating 1.2MW electricity each.
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Senate passes Alternative Energy Development Board Bill 2010
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Tuesday passed the Alternative Energy Development Board Bill 2010, approving the establishment of an Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) that will substitute the Alternative Energy Development Board Ordinance 2007.
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China to build giant N-plant for Pak
1-Gigawatt Atomic Plant Certain To Raise Safety Concerns With New Delhi, Washington Beijing: China
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China confirms two nuclear reactors for Pakistan
China on Tuesday gave its firmest government confirmation yet of plans to build two new nuclear reactors for Pakistan, but a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said she did not know about talks over a bigger reactor deal.
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Out in open: China tells IAEA itll sell n-reactors to Pakistan
In what is being seen as a counter to the India-US nuclear deal, China has taken the next significant step on the sale of two nuclear reactors, Chashma 3 & 4, to Pakistan by officially communicating to the IAEA on Tuesday that it intends to go ahead with the deal under a 2003 agreement. The US is believed to have expressed reservations and said that this sale is beyond the scope of the agreemen
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India set to sign TAPI pipeline pact
India is all set to give its consent for an inter-governmental agreement on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline, which will be signed in Turkmenistan at a summit meet next week.
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With IAEA nod, Pak a step closer to two new n-reactors
Taking the first concrete step on setting up two more China-supplied nuclear reactors in the Chashma nuclear complex, Pakistan has obtained the approval of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board for the safeguards agreement to cover the two new reactors, Chashma 3 and 4. The approval was obtained in the ongoing IAEA board meeting at Vienna.