The continuous growth in Pakistani economy means that the demand for electricity is growing all the time. In a World Bank report, I found that 56% people in Pakistan had access to electricity. Economic growth and the need for increasing access to electricity in the rural areas have put the Pakistan government into a challenging condition of generating electricity in huge quantity within a short time. The rising price of oil is not helping Pakistan at all in this regard. That is why now Pakistan is trying to work it with Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan in this regard. Pakistan is hoping that this way the country import 4,000 megawatts of electricity from these two Central Asian countries.
There is just one problem. Pakistan does not have any direct border with these two countries and will have to get the electricity through a route via Afghanistan. Fortunately, Afghanistan has accepted the idea and Afghanistan will get benefited too by getting transit fee. If everything goes well, it will create a new era in terms regional cooperation in Asia. I think that China and India will now get interested about this kind of regional cooperation with Central Asian countries.
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