CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE

 ( Raja Pervez Ashraf, Federal Minister for Water and Power )   

Almighty God has blessed Pakistan with an enormous wealth of Water, Coal and Gas and it can become an energy corridor for the region. Today Pakistan is confronted with a number of internal and external challenges and shortfall in electricity is one of these the effects of which are being directly felt by our economy. There is no doubt that if untapped reserves of Coal and Hydropower are exploited expeditiously, Pakistan can overcome the shortfall and achieve self reliance in power generation. However, to exploit these resources, heavy investments are required, which the lean economy of Pakistan cannot afford without private sector’s participation. The Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB), created in 1994 is the dedicated interface of the Government of Pakistan for this purpose, and provides one-window facility to investors in the private power sector. 

 The present Government soon after coming into power has taken immediate steps to alleviate the power shortages prevailing in the country in the shortest possible time period to eliminate load-shedding from the country. A number of medium and long term projects, both in public and private sector, are in the pipeline which will provide electricity to the national grid in the coming years  

While efforts to induct additional generation capacity into the system are on, and Insha Allah we will be eliminating the menace of load-shedding, during this hour of trial we need unity and tolerance amongst our ranks and we need to adopt electricity conservation measures to contribute towards minimizing un-necessary use of electricity.

 We welcome international power companies to come forward and work with us for the mutual benefit of these companies and the people of Pakistan.