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Electricity produced in Pakistan is from three main sources.
1). Hydal
2). Thermal (Gas/Steam/Furnace Oil)
3). Nuclear
There are four major power producers in country which include Water & Power Development Authority (WAPDA), Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC), Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).
Below is the break-up of the installed capacity of each of these power producers (as of June-2008).
1). WAPDA
a). WAPDA Hydal
Terbela 3478 MW
Mangla 1000 MW
Ghazi-Brotha 1450 MW
Warsak 243 MW
Chashma 184 MW
Dargai 20 MW
Rasul 22 MW
Shadi-Waal 18 MW
NandiPur 14 MW
Kurram Garhi 4 MW
Renala 1 MW
Chitral 1 MW
Jagran (AK) 30 MW
Total Hydal ==> 6461 MW
b). WAPDA Thermal
Gas Turbine Power Station, Shadra 59 MW
Steam Power Station, Faisalabad 132 MW
Gas Turbine Power Station, Faisalabad 244 MW
Gas Power Station, Multan 195 MW
Thermal Power Station, Muzaffargarh 1350 MW
Thermal Power Station, Guddu 1655 MW
Gas Turbine Power Station, Kotri 174 MW
Thermal Power Station, Jamshoro 850 MW
Thermal Power Station, Larkana 150 MW
Thermal Power Station, Quetta 35 MW
Gas Turbine Power Station, Panjgur 39 MW
Thermal Power Station, Pasni 17 MW
Total Thermal ==> 4811 MW
WAPDA's Total Hydal + Thermal capacity is 11272 MW.
2). Karachi Electric Supply Company
Thermal Power Station, Korengi 316 MW
Gas Turbine Power Station, Korengi 80 MW
Gas Turbine Power Station, SITE 100 MW
Thermal Power Station, Bin Qasim 1260 MW
Total (KESC) ==> 1756 MW
3). Independent Power Producers (IPPs)
Hub Power Project 1292 MW
AES Lalpir Ltd, Mahmood Kot MuzaffarGarh 362 MW
AES Pak Gen, Mahmood Kot MuzaffarGarh 365 MW
Altern Energy Ltd, Attock 29 MW
Fauji KabirWala Power Company, Khanewal 157 MW
Gul Ahmad Energy Ltd, Korengi 136 MW
Habibullah Coastal Power Ltd 140 MW
Japan Power Generation, Lahore 120 MW
Koh-e-Noor Energy Ltd, Lahore 131 MW
Liberty Power Limited, Ghotki 232 MW
Rousch Power, Khaniwal 412 MW
Saba Power Company, Sheikhpura 114 MW
Southern Electric Power Company Ltd, Raiwind 135 MW
Tapal Energy Limited, Karachi 126 MW
Uch Power Ltd, Dera Murad Jamali, Nasirabad 586 MW
Attock Gen Ltd, Morgah Rawalpindi 165 MW
Atlas Power, Sheikhpura 225 MW
Engro Energy Ltd, Karachi ----- MW
Kot Addu Power Company Limited (Privitized) 1638 MW
Total (IPPs) => 6365 MW
4). Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission
KANUPP 137 MW
CHASNUPP-1 325 MW
Total (Nuclear) ===> 462 MW
Hydal Electricity generated by WAPDA varies between two extremities i.e. between minimum of 2414 MW and maximum of 6761 MW depending upon the river flow through the whole year.
Total Power Generation Capacity of Pakistan (including all sources) is 19855 MW and the electricity demand (as of today 20-04-2010) is 14500 MW and PEPCO is merely generating 10000 MW.
So it is obvious that these 15-20 hrs power shutdowns in most parts of the country are not because of the lack of generation capacity but only because of IMF / World Bank policies imposed on our nation by Govt. The Power Generation companies are not buying Furnace Oil from PSO by saying they don’t have money to do that but we are all paying for Electricity that is generated from Furnace Oil. This is the reason that top refineries like PRL are operating at 40% capacities. IMF / World bank has imposed to reduce budget deficit by importing less crude oil. But due to this fact all our industries are under severe crisis. None of our political party who are in Assembly is ready to speak on it because every one is blessed by US / IMF / World Bank.
Dear Pakistani’s,
This is a time to show your social activism your power and strength. It is your silence which is deafening and your couldn’t care less attitude which makes the people in power more powerful evasive and secure in their Air conditioned offices.
PLEASE STAND UP AND BE COUNTED:
Please don't stop this e-mail and forward it to as many people as possible.
Thanks
WE WANT ELECTRICITY IN PAKISTAN.
Electricity now is @11 Rs. per unit, and it will increase after every two months as directed by (American) IMF policies.
Also CHINA offers to Pakistan Electricity for just Rs.300 Monthly Bill and Unlimited Usage of Electricity but our government is not taking the offer seriously. This is because there will be neither kick backs nor any commissions to be pocketed by the strong mafia of politicians and bureaucrats.
These people are there because of your votes. Let them serve you rather than rule you……
NOW THIS IS OUR TIME TO SHOW THE GOVERNMENT YOUR STRENGTH.
Government guarantees issued to food trading companies and provincial governments are not covered under the Fiscal Responsibility Debt Limitation Act 2005, a practice that is understating volume of public debt, the central bank said on Tuesday.
The guarantees are issued on commodity financing loans taken by the Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP), Pakistan Agriculture Storage and Services Company (PASSCO) and provincial governments, but they are never included in the limit of two per cent of the GDP imposed by law, it said.
“Such activities not only understate the volume of the public debt stock and pose a risk of increasing future liabilities, but also potentially crowed out private investment,” it said.
New guarantees issued during July-March 2009/10 reached Rs177.9 billion, 1.18 per cent of the GDP, less than the full-year limit imposed by the act, the central bank said.
ìThe volume of government guarantees issued during fiscal 2009 reached Rs274.3 billion that has breached the limit imposed by FRDL Act 2005.”
The SBP said that countries with higher and persistent budget deficits have serious implications of government guarantees for fiscal outlook of the country.
“In case of Pakistan, government guarantees normally exist in the form of contingent liabilities.
These liabilities are not recognised as direct, as the actual cost of the government is linked with the occurrence of any particular event in future,” it said.
The possibility of default can increase as government normally covers all risks.
Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) remains major recipient among the guarantees issued during the period as the government provided guarantees of term financing certificates (TFCs) issued by Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) in settling the circular debt.
Is the dogfight between Governor Salmaan Taseer and Rana Sanaullah for real? I don't think so. It's just to take cheap shots at each other. If Taseer was that serious about the Sharifs' flirtation with the Punjabi Taliban he would have flown his Cessna straight to Chaklala and driven the hill to the don who sits in splendid isolation plotting how to save his Swiss millions. Mr Congeniality, the Italian-styled prime minister (how many suits does he own?) still can't get over Zardari gifting him the prime ministership.
Taseer should stop begging Chief Minister Shahbaz for a bullet-proof Merc; he should be raising hellfire strafing the terrorists stalking his province and killing people. If he can't do it or as Sanaullah crassly compares his worth to a tissue paper, than Taseer has no business to be occupying the Governor's House in Lahore.
What is shocking is to see Sanaullah – why must our provincial and federal law ministers forever look like underground gangsters out of Godfather? -- appear in talk shows the day after innocent Ahmedis get butchered in their two places of prayers. The brothers Sharif couldn't have chosen worse spokesmen than the real estate developer Rana and Siddiqul Farooque. All that you see of the latter on the TV screens is ink-black crop of hair on his head and a mask of hair, same dye, on lower half of his face with black surma (kohl) in his eyes. He outshouts the other participants including the anchor. Quite a yeller, he is.
While these midgets in the government, opposition and coalition slug it out every night on TV, America readies for a "unilateral strike" on Pakistan. The Washington Post reports the CIA has the "authority to designate and strike targets in Pakistan without case-by-case approval from the White House," on grounds of "solid intelligence" of the presence of 'high value' targets inside Pakistan. For example, if tomorrow the American spy machinery discovered Al Qaeda hoods come over for a cup of tea, Multani halwa and chat with the Punjabi Taliban, bang! South Punjab will get hit.
The drones are ready.
"The US options for potential retaliatory action rely mainly on air and missile strikes, but could also employ small teams of US Special Operations troops already positioned along the border with Afghanistan", reports the American newspaper. This was enough to send Rehman Malik, our part-time security chief scurrying to Lahore. He almost lost his life when his plane tilted on one side after having burst one of its tyres. The same day another family tragedy almost materialised when his brother was chased down a road by kidnappers in Islamabad. Troubles come in three – the same day Malik air-dashed to Karachi to recover Riaz Laljee, Zardari's business buddy.
Now you understand why I call Rehman Malik a "part-time security chief." Instead of attending to the Punjabi Taliban and their partners, Al Qaeda, he's too busy fire-fighting the bushfires ignited by his political party and its co-chairman.
"The prevalence of elite interests over national interests, the misuse of ideology, the distortion of democracy, the misuse of force and the military, the misuse of foreign policy to promote sub-national agendas, the undermining of civil administration, civil society and the rule of law, the mismanagement of the economy and political and moral corruption on a treasonable scale" exacerbate the security challenges and the state of terror in Pakistan, says former diplomat Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, our longest-serving ambassador to India.
Invited by the Oxford and Cambridge Society in Islamabad to talk on the 'War on Terror,' Qazi opened his lecture with a statement saying that the 'war' had spawned "hypocrisy" across the world starting with America, Britain, the UN and Pakistan. Each of these entities used it to "intimidate, coerce and invade territories" as per their own blinkered viewpoints. He quoted the great Winston Churchill who said: "I'm strongly in favour of using poison gas against an uncivilised society" while commenting on the British use of poisonous gas on the Iraqis during the First World War.
More recently, the former American ambassador to India Robert Black told Qazi immediately after 9/11, "History now begins for us." Obviously, the Americans were outraged and, in the words of intellectual and humanist Howard Zinn, "were judging the rest of the world including Pakistan according to their own ideals."
So even if Rehman Malik or Shahbaz Sharif or Salmaan Taseer declare Punjab Taliban-free, but if the US army sees its spy satellites tell a different story, get ready for military action in the plains of Punjab, okayed or not okayed, by the Pakistan Army.
Why was terror allowed to take root in Punjab in the last few years? Did we not know that many madressahs straddling southern Punjab were terrorist training camps teaching their youth to blow themselves? Of course we did. While our politicians were enriching their vote banks by being in bed with the banned militant groups, our bureaucrats were looking the other way allowing these charlatans to kill and attack mosques and public places.
Where were the army and its spy masters, the ISI, during this time?
I put this question to Ashraf Jehangir Qazi who had clubbed the 'establishment' with the politicians for our pathetic state of security today. I had hoped he would give me a direct answer, but I forgot that he's a diplomat who cannot outright put the full blame on the establishment. He dodged my question. "The army today has rid us of terrorism in Swat and FATA but it needs support from the civilian government that has not played the role it should have while dealing with the IDP (Internally displaced persons) issue."
Three weeks ago we sat at the same place to hear Qazi's cousin Ahmed Rashid lecture us on terror. He is perhaps the only author on terrorism who has won international acclaim worldwide. His book Descent into Chaos, written two years ago, chronicles the army's dubious role under military dictators like Zia and Musharraf. Ahmed Rashid gave us a chilling account why Islamic extremism, allowed to flower and prosper, is now "stronger than ever."
He told us how "intimately linked Pakistan is with the Taliban and other militant movements, while remaining the US main ally in war against terror."
One left the lecture with a heavy heart. It was humanly impossible to imagine that our past and present civilian and military leadership wilfully and immorally led its 170 million citizens into a pit where only stark poverty, illiteracy, medieval obscurantism, religious extremism, suicide bombers and sectarian death squads hold sway.
Did I miss out another evil we face today? Yes. Energy crisis! "I met Ambassador Holbrooke recently and he said to me that our energy issue was more deadly than the Taliban," said Ahmed Rashid at the end. "You know what that means? More poverty for the masses which in turn will give a surge to radicalisation during the long hot summer."
Well, one person who won't be feeling the pinch is the president who according to estimates spends Rs1 million a day on his upkeep when 13 crore Pakistanis live under Rs150 a day!
Instead of planning an attack on Pakistan, the Americans should be attacking our poverty and corruption of the highest if they are really sincere about helping us.
Only one telephone call knocked our valiant Commando down. Without seriously considering the long-term repercussions of his action on the country, or taking the nation into confidence, Musharraf chose to become a close ally of the US in its war. He brought to our doorstep the war which, obviously, was not ours. Since then we are paying for his sins. The civilian setup that succeeded him has not only owned but continued with gusto the fight to which there seems to be no end.
On its part, to cover its failures in Afghanistan, the US government has consistently continued to increase pressure on us to extend military action yet further within Pakistani territory, on one pretext or another. Although our rulers acted like the proverbial obedient servants and carried out every military demand made of us, often to utter disregard for life and the safety of our civilian populations, but they have failed to win the confidence or approval of their masters in Washington.
Drone attacks within Pakistani territory further complicated the situation. Initially we tried to cover up these attacks by claiming that our own forces hit the militants in these incidents. It did not take too long for the lie to be exposed. The government's asking for drone technology to be transferred to Pakistan further exposed its connivance in these attacks. Now even senior army generals are conceding on television talk shows that a number of our airbases have been handed over to the US for covert actions on our soil and our armed forces personnel are not permitted entry beyond the perimeters of these bases.
All hell broke loose, and the "good character certificate" we had earned after arresting Mullah Barader and other senior Taliban leaders was revoked when Faisal Shahzad, a naturalised American national, was arrested for an attempted car explosion at Times Square in New York. Reacting to the incident, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used harsh and threatening language for Pakistan. This was the most humiliating and embarrassing moment for a close ally. Our sacrifices were forgotten in no time.
US security agencies, meanwhile, claimed to have established Faisal Shahzad's links with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in North Waziristan. This lent further pressure to the existing demand to our government to launch a military operation there. Two senior officials of the US Homeland Security and the CIA visited Islamabad and held meetings with the president, the prime minister and the army chief to examine how best the security environment could be improved to stop the TTP from causing loss to life and property in the US. It is generally believed that the government has agreed to launch the operation, and is weighing options as to the timeframe of its launch.
Whether or not the military operation is launched, the question that comes to mind is: will that serve our national interests? Is a military operation the only option? Will that bring peace and stability to the area, and to the country as a whole? Will it stop the bleeding of the country's resources in terms of men and material? Have the military operations conducted in other parts of FATA achieved the desired results? If not, we have to take stock of the situation, and tell our friends that killing our own people on our own soil is not in our interest. If some of these people are misguided and do cross the border into Afghanistan to cause mayhem, then the NATO forces stationed there should take whatever action against the infiltrators they consider appropriate.
If the US drones can target wanted people on Pakistan's soil in total disregard of our sovereignty, why do the Americans hesitate to take similar action when such elements cross the border into Afghanistan? We have rendered enough sacrifices. Both our armed forces and the civilian population have suffered a great deal, but that has hardly earned us any laurels from Washington.
People in the tribal areas have rendered the supreme sacrifice of abandoning from their hearths and homes for the success of military operations. They and their families suffered immensely as internally displaced persons wandering on roadsides and in camps in Peshawar, Dera Ismail Khan, Tank. Nobody paid any real attention to their plight. Their sacrifices earned them nothing but lip service from the government or its functionaries who would turn up only for photo-ops.
Other equally important questions that come to mind are whether the countless operations conducted so far in FATA have earned a place of honour for us with the West? Have they eliminated militancy from the area or, to the contrary, contributed to the spread of the menace deeper into other parts of the country? If the reply to these questions is in the negative, then we need to look at the problem afresh and redraw our parameters. We should formulate and follow a policy which is not only in line with but also reflective of the aspirations of the general public. Unless we do that, we will be fighting successful battles but not a successful war.
Again, an operation in North Waziristan will not be that easy. This will require additional troops and equipment from an already overstretched army. Will we still be able to maintain an effective vigil on our eastern border? Will we be able to contain the spread of this battle to the border with Afghanistan which the army has not touched in all the operations conducted in FATA so far. Also, will the army be able to prevent it from spreading to other areas inhabited by the Wazir tribe (South Waziristan, as well as those across the border in Afghanistan). If launched, the operation is likely to become a bushfire engulfing the entire region of the two Waziristans and across the Durand Line.
Where will the IDPs go? Bannu, which is in close proximity to the east, remains mostly under curfew. Adjacent is South Waziristan, where a military operation is underway in the Mehsud area. To its north is Kurram. Kurram is already suffering from sectarian violence which has caused the closure of the road link with the rest of the country. Its inhabitants travel to Peshawar via Kabul. Unless special arrangements are made to open the roads for traffic in those areas, which is unlikely in view of the operation, people will have no choice but to cross the border into Afghanistan and take refuge there. Will we be able to effectively counter enemy propaganda that the Pakistani army has made its own people refugees in another country? How will the international community react is another matter. I do not believe these repercussions have been taken into consideration.
We have not yet rehabilitated the IDPs of Bajaur and South Waziristan. They are braving the summer heat in camps with only the barest possible essentials at their disposal. The operation will not only increase the number of IDPs but will also uproot those displaced Mehsuds who had found some shelter in the Wazir areas of the two Waziristans.
How many times are we going to conquer Fata? Each tribal agency has experienced at least two military operations in the last nine years. The people are fed up and have no capacity or patience left for any more sacrifices. The treatment meted out to the tribesmen so far is certainly not commendable. There is every likelihood of the same treatment following a fresh operation.
Let us reconsider our policy options if we really want peace and harmony to return to the area
