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By Salman AbduhooWhile the country is facing severe power crisis, the Bunji Hydropower Project in Gilgit with generation capacity of 6,000 megawatt – 2,500 more megawatt than the estimated capacity of Kalabagh – is being put on back burner for at least three years due to the unprofessional and inefficient consultants and criminal negligence of [...]

The Northern Areas’ water and power department has claimed that it will overcome power shortage in the region within the next three years, and building on the success, it will be in a position to sell out electricity by 2015.
The department’s executive engineer, Naz Akbar, told Dawn that at present 93 power stations were functioning [...]