Pakistan To Buy 1,100 MW of Electricity from Iran!

• It appears America’s threats are falling flat. Both India and Pakistan are not budging. In fact, they appear to have increased support for Iran. The western global monetary and financial hegemony is fracturing. It would not surprise me if behind the scenes, actions are taking place to replace the SWIFT interbank system.
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  Pakistan to buy 1,100 MW of electricity from Iran: Gilani! 
  by http://www.presstv.ir/ 
  Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has announced that Islamabad plans to purchase 1,100 megawatts (MW) more electricity from its western neighbor, Iran.
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  The electricity supplied from Iran to the Pakistani Balochistan Province would prove especially helpful in overcoming the country’s energy shortage, Gilani said during a meeting with the Iranian Vice President Mohammad-Javad Mohammadizadeh in Boao, China.
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  The Pakistani prime minister also expressed interest in buying oil, gas and electricity from Iran despite the US-led sanctions imposed against the Islamic Republic over Tehran’s nuclear energy program, Dawn News reported on Sunday.
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  On February 26, 2012, Iran doubled its power supply to the Makran region of Pakistan from 35 MW per day to 70 MW after the enhancement of transmission lines. A spokesman for Pakistan’s Ministry of Water and Power told reporters that the daily 70 MW supply will meet the electricity demand of the Makran division for the next five years.
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  Iran is currently exchanging electricity with Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Pakistan, Nakhichevan, Turkey and Turkmenistan. Iran’s total power generation capacity stands at 63,403 MW while the total length of the power grid exceeds 780,000 km.
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  The Islamic Republic seeks to become a major regional exporter of electricity and has attracted more than USD 1.1 billion in investments to build three new power plants.

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