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Pak's nuke plant project likely to be finalised during Jiabao's visit | | Pakistan is expecting a major breakthrough regarding the establishment of a one-gigawatt (GW) nuclear power plant during the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao's three-day visit to Islamabad starting from December 17, official sources have revealed. According to highly placed government
and diplomatic sources, officials of Pakistan and China have been engaged in extensive
talks on setting up a nuclear power plant in Pakistan having a capacity of producing
1 GW electricity, The Nation reports. An Islamabad-based Chinese official also
confirmed that there have been discussions between both countries about building
such a power plant in Pakistan, in addition to the two 300-megawatt (MW) plants
that Chinese companies are expected to build in Chashma. It is noteworthy that
China has already completed the construction of one nuclear power plant of 300MW
in Pakistan while another plant of the same capacity is likely to be completed
next year. During Jiabao's visit, both the sides are expected to finalise the
'Currency swap agreement', while Pakistan will stress for making full use of the
Pak-China free trade agreement for increasing bilateral trade to 15 billion dollars
per year. Although China has been talking publicly for the past two months about
its intention to build at least two more reactors in Pakistan, Chinese officials
have not yet specified how they intend to get around the rules that bar the sale
of nuclear technology to countries such as Pakistan, that have not signed the
nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
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