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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (42451)	4/26/2002 7:57:45 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

< I see fringe countries like my nation cement industry and other light industry,.........making nice gains in Afghanistan.> Message #42451 The Water And Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has been assigned the task of providing electricity to the rural and urban areas of war-ridden Afghanistan at a cost of $500 million; the project will take up to five years and will be completed in phases. Sources told Daily Times on Friday that WAPDA Chairman Lieutenant General (r) Zulfiqar Ali accompanied President Pervez Musharraf on his recent visit to Afghanistan. Sources said that during the trip, the WAPDA chairman finalised an agreement to provide electricity to Afghanistan, adding that manpower for construction, including an expert, would be sent within two months. Soon after his return, Mr Ali visited the offices of the WAPDA construction division and asked employees to prepare themselves for the project. In the first phase of the project, a team of ground planners and draftsmen will visit Afghanistan to prepare the groundwork; later, technical staff will go and start construction. WAPDA has so far decided to send 20 to 25 engineers, 30 to 40 sub-divisional officers and 150 helping staff; for all other requirements, local labour will be used. WAPDA will select most of the staff from the Peshawar Electricity Supply Corporation (PESCO) and the Quetta Electricity Supply Corporation (QESCO). WAPDA staff will bring all the equipment, including poles and transformers, from Pakistan. Sources said WAPDA would not ask consumers for a deposit for supply or renovation work, a usual practice in Pakistan, adding that the cost of the work would be paid by the World Bank and the US aid programme. The project will start with renovation work in Kabul and then will move from one city to another and then one village to the other.