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Pakistan to generate 28000MW Renewable energy by 2030 Minister for Power Division Omar in for the establishment of 12 wind energy Ayub Khan has said that Pakistan projects. This would not only help to reduce is going to increase its electricity prices in the country dependence on electricity pro- but also boost industrial activi- duced from Renewable Energy ties resulting in a surge in ex- (RE) sources like Wind, Solar etc. ports and increased employment Addressing a press conference opportunities in the country. with Special Assistant to Prime According to the Alternative Minister on Petroleum Nadeem Renewable Energy Policy 2019 Babar here, the minister said approved by the federal cabinet a that the share of clean and green total of 28,000MW will be added energy would be enhanced to 60- to the system through RE out of 65 per cent of total energy mix by which 8,000MW will be added by 2030. 2025 and the remaining RE sector alone has over $40 20,000MW by the year 2030. RE billion investment opportunities. A huge policy would be sent to Council of Common investment worth $700 million is pouring Interests for endorsement.

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Government focuses on the completion of important Transport and Communication projects under PSDP 2019-20 Engineering Post Report as well as inter-provincial connectivity have Highway Authority (NHA) have been funded been given preference to improve the linkage for continued implantation and launching The Federal Government has at- with a huge allocation of Rs tached due focus on the comple- 154715.143 million including foreign tion of important Transport and aid of Rs 58911.915 million. Communication sector on-going proj- Transport and Communication sec- ects and initiating only commercially tor on-going and new projects are es- viable projects on Public-Private Part- timated to cost on the whole Rs nership (PPP)/Build-Own-Transfer 2060027.199 million including foreign (BOT) basis under its Public Sector aid of Rs 455194.000 million. Against Development Programme (PSDP) dur- this, total expenditure of Rs ing ongoing financial year 2019-20. 893110.444 million had been incurred It has also decided in principle not to up t end June 2019. take up any provincial road except for Out of 42 new schemes listed in the the less-developed areas of Balochis- PSDP, only two have been approved at tan, South Punjab, South Khyber the appropriate level of Executive Pukhtoonkhwah. ex-FATA and Gilgit- and within country trade. Committee of the National Economic Council Baltistan. Under PSDP, as many as 80 ongoing and (ECNEC) and rest of 40 are all are unap- However, East-West regional connectivity new projects including those by the National proved as of now. 02

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 AEDB approves 11 wind energy projects with a capacity of 558MWs The Alternate Energy Devel- these wind proj- Power (Pvt) Ltd Liberty Wind Power-2 (Pvt) Ltd opment Board (AEDB) has ects is approxi- (50 MW), Din (50 MW), NASDA Green Energy approved 11 wind power mately 560MW Energy (Pvt) (Pvt) Ltd (50 MW), Metro Wind projects funded by the World and these proj- Ltd (50 MW), Power Ltd (60 MW) and another Bank. In view of the vision of the ects would pro- Gul Ahmed 48.30 MW Transatlantic Energy GoP to increase the share of re- vide more than Electric Ltd (50 Pvt Ltd. newable energy to at least 30 per- 1.8 billion units MW), Indus An investment of approx $ 700 cent by year 2030, AEDB has of clean energy Wind Energy million will be brought into Pak- executed Implementation Agree- annually. Ltd (50 MW), istan as soon as these projects ments (IAs) with 11 IPP Wind These proj- Lakeside En- achieve financial closing. These Power Projects on behalf of the ects include ACT 2 Wind (Pvt) ergy (Pvt) Ltd (50 MW), Liberty projects are envisaged to come GoP. The cumulative capacity of Ltd (50 MW), Artistic Wind Wind Power-1 (Pvt) Ltd (50 MW), online by year 2021. 03

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Oath taking ceremonies for newly elected councils of PHVACR society Pa k i s t a n The newly elected Local Council Members of Karachi Chapter with Heating their notable designations are as follows; Ventilation Air Conditioning and Refrigeration • Chairman Mr.Fahad Ali Khan Afridi • Honorary Secretary Mr. Aley Mohammad (HVACR) Society • Honorary Treasurer, Mr. Shuja Khalid • Honorary Media Secretary, Mr. Saad Khan conducted the • Hony. Membership Promotion Secretary, Mr. Khuwajah Mustafa Jaleel • Coordinator Students Affairs, Mr. Omer Khan Oath Taking Cer- • Coordinator Events, Mr. Zeeshan Ahmed Siddiqui emony of Local Council Members elected for the term of 2019 – 2021. The oath taking ceremonies The elected local council members for Islamabad Chapter and their designations are were held at the local offices of Is- lamabad Lahore • Chairman PHVACR Islamabad chapter Mr. Usman Tariq Chughtai • Honorary Secretary Mr.Rana Raees Ahmad and Karachi chap- • Honorary Treasurer Mr. Usman Arshad • Honorary Media Secretary Mr. Tabish Said Abbasi ters. Oaths for the • Hony. Membership promotion secretary Mr. Asif Irbal Rana • Technical seminar coordinator Mr. M. Rehan elected Local • Coordinator Mr, Asad ur Rehman Council Members were conducted as per bylaws of Soci- ety. Mementos were presented to all The elected local council members for Lahore chapter and their designations are the respected Out- going Local Coun- cil Members as a gesture of and was established some 24 • Chairman PHVACR Islamabad chapter Mr. Muhammad Amir appreciation and acknowledgment years ago to promote the cause of • Honorary Secretary Mr. Jafar Raza Haidery of their Performance during last HVACR profession and industry • Honorary Treasurer Mr. M. Afzaal Malik tenure. in Pakistan. It is an affiliate Soci- Pakistan HVACR Society was ety to ASHRAE, USA. Right from • Honorary Media Secretary Mr. Khurram Khalid Malik established in 1993 for the promo- the inception, Society is making • Honorary Membership promotion secretary Mr. Abdul Ghaffar tion of art & science of HVACR in all out efforts for Knowledge dis- • Coordinator Student Affairs Mr. Mahtab Ali Pakistan. The Society is a sole semination and experience shar- • Coordinator Events Mr. Tahir Irfan representative body on HVACR ing. 04

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Army to generate its own electricity The federal government has allowed the Defence Division to purchase cheaper solar electricity in a bid to save a major chunk of money coming out of the army budget for consuming 240 megawatts of electricity every year which costs a little over Rs 15 bil- lion. In addition to cost saving, continuous electricity supply is a critical requirement for all military garrisons which house hospitals and sensitive military installations Army undertook a series of extensive stud- ies/ in-house discussions in order to explore op- tions to acquire cheap electricity to reduce of 1-5MW each in various garrisons on Build- electricity will be at least 20-30 per cent burden on army budget. Renewable Energy Operate & Transfer (BOT) basis. The pilot cheaper than from Distribution Companies (RE), solar power, which is being encouraged project is aimed at production of 40MW of elec- (Discos). Moreover Pakistan Army has a very by the government, stands out as the best op- tricity. No public money will be involved in es- robust/exclusive electric distribution system tion. tablishment of solar parks and their operation for all garrisons to harness RE through capital According to sources privy to the matter and maintenance for 25 years. solar park which makes the option very effi- Army intends to establish a solar park project Defence Ministry claims that purchase of cient. 05

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Smart Climate Solutions (Pvt) Ltd. Celebrating an Award of 100 Projects Second pillar is the excellence in execution. SCS has been able to set a new standard in the Smart Climate Solu- industry when it tions (Pvt) Ltd (SCS) comes to perfect embarks on a mile- implementation stone after an award of cen- of the devised so- tury of projects in a period lution while re- of three years. specting the SCS has been amongst timelines. the fastest growing HVAC Third pillar is companies in the industry. in the After Sales Since its inception, SCS has and Support sys- expanded its presence tem. SCS be- throughout the country lieves that After with Offices in Lahore, Sales and Sup- Karachi and Islamabad and port structure of has executed and delivered the company is landmark projects through- more in the atti- out the country. tude than in the With a rich client base, process. With SCS has delivered projects this attitude, in segments of Hotels and SCS has been Apartments, Shopping able to attract re- Malls, Hospitals, Schools, peated clients Universities, Financial In- and has emerged stitutions, Telecommunication, mobile, Cement, Textile, Power in what the company offers. SCS to be the most trust solutions Software Houses, Data Centers, Generation and Chemicals. strongly believes in a Solution provider in the industry. Super Markets, Restaurants, Cine- On the completion of hundred Based Approach. The key is in un- SCS are committed to serve the mas, Showroom & Display Centers. Projects, the CEO of SCS shared the derstanding the requirements not HVAC industry from Mega Projects For Process and Industrial Cooling, success story. only specific to the segment, but op- to Residential projects, with best SCS has been the most trusted solu- As a company, SCS defines its timized for the particular applica- quality, innovative products and tion provider for Industries in Auto- success on three pillars. The first is tion. services. 06

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Engineering Post partners with Qatar Industry 4.0 Congress purpose we have partnered up with a tion of Pakistani Industry. We were number of international exhibitions. A the first publication to set up the Pak- new addition to the star studded fam- istan pavilion at Dubai Expo. We are ily is the Qatar industry congress official media partners at ISK-SODEX 2020. Alhamdullilah Engineering Post Turkey, Big 5, Oman Expo, EP Shang- In the pursuit of Excellence, Engi- is now the official media partner for hai, MEE Saudi and now the Qatar manufacturing, industrial IOT, future neering Post has left no stone un- the Qatar industry congress 2020 Industry 4.0 Congress. This partner- factories, Additive Manufacturing, 5G, turned. Our team is working round which will be held at the La Cigale ship with Qatar Congress will help AI & robotics, digital twins, cyber se- the clock to maintain the level of excel- hotel, Doha Qatar from 25th to 26th of Engineering Post in advertising the curity, big data and many other re- lence our valued clients expect from March 2019. local companies of Pakistan at an in- lated areas. This congress aims to us. With the sole objective of serving A Media partnership agreement ternational platform. gather C-level executives & senior the engineering community of Pak- was recently signed by the two sides Qatar Industry 4.0 Congress 2020 is level executives from the Qatar man- istan we have made it our mission to for mutual cooperation and media rep- Qatar’s largest gathering covering ufacturing industries who are inter- provide international exposure to the resentation. Engineering Post is the major industry trends such as Indus- ested in developing their digital Local vendors of the country. For that pioneer in international representa- try 4.0, smart automation, future of strategies. 07

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 An Insight into Information and Communication Technology Sector Engineering Post Report 2018-19 in this regard. Pakistan’s growing ECT sector is In the Information Technology As of latest information avail- lowest ranked amongst South The world is moving fast to- Sector, National Incubation Cen- able from Pakistan Telecommuni- Asian countries. It is ranked at wards 5G,Industrial Inter- tres ( NICs) have been estab- cation Authority (PTA), as of 127 in ICT adoption out of 140 net of Things (IIoT) and lished at Islamabad, Karachi, February 2019, in Telecommuni- economies, while India is at 117, Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta, cation Sector, cellular tele-indus- Bangladesh at 102, Nepal at 101, key technologies for Fourth In- and Sri Lanka at 109 all are dustrial Revolution (4IR). With ahead. Republic of Korea is the advent of 4IR, new opportuni- ranked at one in this respect. ties of prosperity are being cre- Similarly in overall skills, Pak- ated. The new wealth creation istan is also ranked very low at paradigm is based on data-inten- 125, however , in Digical Skills sive decision systems. Therefore, amogst the population we are a we have to harness, these ICT in- little better ranked at 75 and in novations for national wealth cre- graduate skill sets at 51, while ation. India is far ahead at 48 and 36 re- Pakistan stands at a juncture spectively. Also Malaysia, Singa- of time where we can become part pore are ranked at 24 and 20 of and surf the rising wave of new respectively in Overall Skills, 11 technological era to be counted in and 6 in Digical Skills and 8 and the global arena. Now it is high 5 in Graduation Skills Sets re- time to expand on our accom- spectively. plishments and put concerted ef- In innovation capabilities,Pak- forts into other areas as well, istan is ranked at 76, while India especially extensive utilization of is ranked at 31, China, Singa- ICTs in industry, agriculture and pore, Korea and Malaysia are other sectors of the national econ- ranked at 24, 14, 8 and 30 respec- omy. tively. The leader in Innovation A multi-dimensional and holis- Capability is Germany. tic approach would quite obvi- federal and provincial capitals. try had increased from 72 per Quite obviously, it is pretty ev- ously enable us to become more Currently more than 200 start- cent to 75 per cent. The 3G/4G ident that Pakistan is much be- competitive. The work has al- ups are housed in these facilities, broadband services had also ac- hind on most of the dimensions ready been started in some areas, many of these start-ups have the cordingly further increased sub- even in the regional context. The which need to be further built potential to create marketable scribers from 49 million to other countries are moving very upon in future. products and services have been appreciable figures of 65 million. fast , as compared to Pakistan A look at performance during approved for appropriate funding It is worth mentioning that unfortunately, thus creating a 08

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 bigger gap and posing a serious in public and private sector or- (HTS)/Broadband Internet and international internet connectiv- challenge to us for catching with ganizations. Strategic SatComm.PC-11 has al- ity. them at the earliest. Pakistan Space Centre (PSC) ready been approved and during Technical Training Institute is Some of the major projects exe- was approved which aims to es- the current fiscal, PC-1 will be being established in Gilgit- cuted in the ICT sector during tablish an indigenous facility for submitted for approval and subse- Baltistan. 2019-19 were; development of satellites in ac- quent execution of the project. Internet and broadband serv- Through Ministry of Informa- cordance with the international Feasibility study of Pakistan’s ices are being expanded in Gilgit- tion Technology’s project “En- space standards. The space cen- Second Optical Remote Sensing Baltistan and Azad Jammu and hancing IT Exports through tre will lave the capability to Satellite (PRSS-02) is also in the Kashmir. Industry Support Programmes”, carry out manufacturing, testing, final stages of planning process. Technology Parks Development 20 more companies were provided system level assembly, integra- PRSS-02 aims to launch a sub- Project was also launched during CMMI consultancy to attain cer- tion, launching and operations of meter resolution remote sensing the period under report. For this tification of CMMI level-2, CMMI various types of satellites. satellite. assistance of Korea has been Level-3 , CMMI level-5 and ISO Pakistan Muslti-Mission Satel- Cross-Border OFC System be- sought and loan agreement was 27,001/20,000 International lite (Pak-Sat-MMI) is also tween China and Pakistan under also signed too. Feasibility of the Standards. planned during the current finan- CPEC for international connec- project was completed during the Under the “Prime Minister’s cial year which will cater to the tivity of voice and data traffic is year and boundary wall and other ICT Internship Programme”, demand of Direct-To-Home (DTH) also under implementation and it allied work such as design, con- placement of 2000 ICT graduates , High-Throughput Services will enable alternative route for sultancy etc is in progress. 09

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 China to convert Thar coal into Diesel and Gas In a recent development China (JCC) have given their willing- convert coal into oil in the north- province is bestowed with 185 bil- has agreed to bring the strate- ness to provide funding for the western Chinese region of lion tons of lignite coal, which can gic project of turning Thar coal feasibility study under CPEC fi- Ningxia, the biggest plant of its fuel power generation of over into diesel and gas under the nancing mechanism for the proj- kind in the world. 100,000 megawatts for more than CPEC umbrella. It will first pro- ect under which Thar coal will be The coal-to-liquid (CTL) proj- two centuries. Pakistan needs to vide financing for feasibility study converted into diesel and gas.” ect, which has an annual produc- increase share of coal in country’s prior to launching the project. He mentioned that the Shen- tion capacity of 4 million tons of energy mix to at least 19 percent Special Assistant to Prime Min- hua Ningxia Coal Industry oil, was built by the Shenhua by 2030 and 50 percent by 2050. ister on Petroleum Nadeem Group, a subsidiary of China’s Ningxia Coal Industry Group, a In 1992, Geological Survey of Babar while talking to the media biggest coal producer, the Shen- subsidiary of China’s biggest coal Pakistan (GSP) discovered coal said “The authorities from China hua Group, has already success- producer, the Shenhua Group. deposits worth 175-185 billion in Joint Cooperation Committee fully installed the project to Thar coalfield in Sindh tons of lignite in Thar. 10

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ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Lahore Chapter of HVACR Society holding 4th season of Cricket Gala 2019 Lahore Chapter of HVACR neering Post the whole between people from diverse Society holding 4th season e x p l a i n e d family. A backgrounds. This event can also of Cricket Gala 2019 the history total of 10 prove to be an excellent advertis- Pakistan HVACR Society, La- of the an- teams par- ing opportunity for the different hore Chapter, is all set to organ- nual cricket ticipating in companies to promote their serv- ise the 4th season of the 2 day gala “This the event ices and products through an- HVACR cricket gala on 20th-21st event was out of which nouncements, banners and team December 2019 at Khayabaan-e- the brain- 8 are profes- uniforms. Ameen cricket ground Defence child of Mr. sional teams At the end of the event Tro- road, Lahore. This year the event R a m z a n while 2 phies and prizes will be awarded will be organised under the su- Sharif, the teams are to the Man of the match as well pervision of the newly appointed then Chair- made up of as the winner and Runner up chairman of the Lahore chapter man of La- purely soci- teams. Purely entertainment Mr. Muhammad Aamir. All the h o r e ety member. events like these are very impor- expenses of the event are fi- chapter. After it was started in Each team consists of 12 players. tant for everyone as they provide nanced by the Pakistan HVACR 2016 this event has only become The annual cricket gala pro- some respite from the monoto- society. better and more entertaining,” he vides an excellent networking op- nous routine of corporate life and Mr Athar Shahzad, Office sec- said. portunity for the people from also serve to provide amusement retary of HVACR society Lahore The annual cricket gala is a different companies. It provides a to the families of the partici- chapter while talking to Engi- recreational event designed for platform for friendly interaction pants. Swiss Govt to companies provide soft invited to invest in loans to Pakistan’s strengthen energy sector cottage President Dr Arif industry Alvi invited companies of The Punjab govt Switzerland to avail has decided to in- the investment oppor- troduce a soft tunities available in the energy sector of loan programme which Pakistan. He said that these opportuni- is envisioned to help ties can be extremely lucrative for the in- promote the industrial vestors. He said this while talking to the sector, and especially President of the Council of States of the cottage industry Swiss Confederation Jean Rene Fournier, facing severe shortage who called on him at the Awan-e-Sadr. of resources. CM Pun- The president em- jab Usman Buzdar ac- phasized that Pak- istan valued its corded approval for the long-term partnership with Switzerland in initiation of the pro- economic, trade and commercial fields. He gramme. further said that the trade between the two According to the de- countries had been in- creasing steadily, tails provided by the though was not yet commensurate with government Rs 300 the true potential. million has been allo- Appreciating the Swiss investment in cated by the Punjab Pakistan, he under- scored that the gov- government to start a ernment's business friendly policies were loan programme on soft bearing fruit as Pak- istan had gained 28 terms and conditions places in the \"ease of doing business\" index for the promotion of this year. cottage industry in the Jean Rene Fournier said Switzerland was province. A loan worth a staunch supporter of human rights and Rs 300,000 will be would offer its good offices for the resolu- given along with the re- tion of Kashmir dis- pute, if both parties turn period of three agreed. years and three months grace period. Similarly, loan scheme worth Rs 6 bil- lion will be started for small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs). Under this scheme, loan amount up to Rs three million will be extended with a grace period of six months. Under Rs 3 billion has been allo- cated for the loan mark-up support pro- gramme under which texisting SMEs will also get loans on soft terms. The chief minis- ter directed that the loans disbursement process should be made transparent as well as speedy. 12

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ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Construction of Kartarpur Corridor Prime minister Imran Khan formally in- has been established with a cost of $14.8 mil- augurated the Kartarpur Corridor at a lion. colourful ceremony in time for the In the second phase a complex will be es- 550th birth anniversary of Baba Guru tablished near the Kartarpur Shrine. The Nanak. Former Indian PM Manmohan Singh Complex will have an international standard led the first delegation of Sikh pilgrims as hotel, hundreds of apartments, two commer- they crossed into Pakistan. cial areas and two car parking lots, Border The task for the construction of the Pak- Facility Area, a power grid station, tourist istani side of the Kartarpur corridor was information centre and several offices. given to the rugged and experienced Frontier According to sources, Government of Pak- Works Organization (FWO) which con- istan is also working to construct a motorway structed 4.7 kilometres (2.9 mi) of dedicated wara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur to accommo- between Sialkot International Airport to expressways, including an 800-metre (2,600 date the incoming pilgrims. The first phase Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur Corridor ft) bridge over the River Ravi, opened an im- of construction is now complete. According to Complex for cater international traffic of migration office, and expanded the Gurd- sources the corridor on the Pakistani side tourists and Sikhs. 14

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ENGINEERING POST December-2019 IEEE PES Karachi Chapter 8th Technical Seminar 2019 On October 22nd, eighth activity of the year participants and industry leaders were eased by tered Maintenance, Bath tub curve was explained was organized by IEEE PES Chapter Platform and got opportunity of appealing with for the systems, Run-to-failure (RTF) / Breakdown Karachi at Sunset Club, Karachi. A multi- each other as IEEE is committed to serve Engi- maintenance / Reactive maintenance, retentive purpose event was arranged where more than 35 neering Professional to evaluate their technical maintenance (PM) (schedule, time), Predictive knowledge and cre- maintenance (PdM)/Real-time monitoring ate edifice chunks of (RTM)/CBM, Proactive maintenance (trending, an enduring and di- analytics), RCM Analysis & RCM is a corporate- verse professional level maintenance strategy with a healthy discus- network. sion on different topics. The one-day sem- At the end of the session, an IEEE Membership inar was on “RELIA- Development presentation was given to encourage B I L I T Y industry fellows to be part of the IEEE organiza- CENTERED MAIN- tion. Vote of thanks was delivered by Dr. Tariq TENANCE AND Soomro. The lecture lasted for more than 60 min- ASSET MANAGE- utes, overall Satisfactory and was attended by a MENT” and Distin- very large number of Professionals from Industry. guished Speaker of After the Seminar, High Tea was arranged. the seminar was “Engr. Asim Rashid”. With the Recitation of Holy Quran, the seminar started. Thank You note to seminar was given by Engr. Tahir Saleem, Chairman IEEE PES Karachi. The Technical seminar was on ut- most request of au- dience and primary comprised of two parts. The first part of the seminar was on the Introduction on Reliability Cen- 16

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ENGINEERING POST December-2019 National Commission for Science and Technology No meetings held for more than a decade Engineering Post mission for Science and Ministry of Science tions with new and fo- R & D organizations private sector for focused Report Technology are being and Technology will ref- cused mandates/mission with their new mandate research that can be given below briefly for in- dorm and re-organize its and well-defined meas- will be expected to have translated into products National Commis- formation of all con- Research and Develop- ures for ensuring maxi- a close liaison with in- and processes for demon- sion for Science cerned. ment (R & D) organiza- mization of their output. dustry, academia and stration at pilot level and and Technology subsequent commercial- (NCST) despite being the ization. apex body for deliberat- R&D organizations ing policies of important within and outside Min- Science ,Technology and istry of Science and Innovation Sector has Technology will be en- not held its meetings for couraged to create col- more than a decade. laborations with According to the infor- industry/ private sector mation available from of- and also generate own ficial sources, it has now resources to meet part of been stressed at the ap- recurring expenditure. propriate level that the A national frame- Ministry of Science and work for civilian Technology will prefer- spillover of defence tech- ably arrange two but at nologies will be framed least one meeting of and finalized after due NCST to advance a con- consultation with all sequential national stakeholders. This agenda and performance framework will,hope- reporting for Science, fully, provide opportu- Technology and Innova- nity for close tion at the very highest collaboration of civilian level of the federal gov- and defence R & D or- ernment. ganizations as well as It has been duly ac- private sector to develop knowledged at the official selected few technolo- level that there is dire gies in the beginning need for reviving Science, and further expansion Technology and Innova- in longer run. tion (STI) sector for en- The youth of the na- suring it plays its due tion is only inspired if role for economic devel- they find indigenous ca- opment of the country. pacity development and As such, there is also products commercializa- need to focus on linkage tion in the country. The among industry,Re- 12th Five Year Plan search and Development stresses to Fund at least organizations, academia 5 Mega Initiatives to ad- and the government. dress both national Share of the private sec- needs as well as future tor in overall Research aspirations in science and Development expen- and technology and in- diture has also to be im- novation. proved accordingly The priority areas for appropriately. next year will, accord- Furthermore, there is ingly, be Human Re- also disconnect among source Development the defence and civilian (HRD), Popularization Research and Develop- and Promotion of Sci- ment organizations as ence , Small and well as the private sec- Medium Enterprises tor. (SME) Facilitation, Keeping in view these Water Resources, problems, following ap- Oceanography, Herbal proach will be adopted Medicines, Quality As- for uplifting STI sector in surance and Standards, the country on priority Halal Accreditation, basis preferably during Gems & Precious ongoing and next finan- Stones, Medical Devices cial years. and Health, Water Con- Some highlights of the servation, Renewable approach besides activat- Energy, Electronics and ing the National Com- Automation. 18



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ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Housing Infrastructure The social responsibility of Today’s Architect Engr. Mohammad Iqbal Mirza, CEO, Green Leaves The living natural disasters and become victim to the from weather, external dangers and natural condition of destruction resulting from the chaos in a calamities, while it has its subjective dimen- people in a civil conflict. Inadequate housing is not an sion also that implies its design, material country is reflec- issue only in Pakistan, it is global problem. used in creating internal and external ambi- tion of its eco- According to WHO approximately one billion ence and incorporated amenities to provide n o m i c people live in houses falling in inadequate desired level of comfort. We human beings d e v e l o p m e n t , category, whereas one hundred million live are oddly capricious seeking change from a without adequate in conditions that are termed as homeless. comfort zone to restless hiking and taking on shelter, people The simplest and the oldest definition adventures to explore new heights to break are subject to of housing is shelter; and shelter as defined the inertia in our lives, because we are built poverty, poor by English dictionary is: something that of material and soul demanding satisfaction health, poor edu- gives protection, such as a building or tent, of both. The quality of life therefore depends cational achieve- or the protection provided. The objective side on our material and spiritual needs swayed ment, and fall to of ‘Human Housing’ is to ensure protection by our longings. Housing need in Pakistan is on the rise since the population is increasing and we lag far behind in providing housing as compared to the population growth. The housing growth in urban is comparatively high than rural areas mainly against demand, because of population migrating towards cities. The habitation density level in Pakistan is more than three persons in a room which is dou- ble of the UNO recommended level. Over the time the unabated population growth will make the situation more critical decreasing the quality of life for people of Pakistan. It is primarily basic responsibility of state to provide adequate housing in both rural and urban area and asks for state special atten- tion to decrease the gap between the need and provision of houses. It is a phenomenon natural to human in- stinct that rise in income instigates him to improve his quality of life. The priority in preference leans strongly to move to urban life, because of various better opportunities of jobs, health care and education. This movement from rural to urban initiates a process of development. The houses and 22

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ENGINEERING POST December-2019 household buying creates a living. Instead of improving, the compatible to low and middle tion at the cost of hazardous, im- demand in housing construction housing conditions have deterio- class income, so it is a nightmare moral and unhygienic environ- and household appliances indus- rated over the last 40 year pri- for them to own a house of their ment its dwellers are exposed to. try starting a process of all over marily because of the choice. There is absolutely no Pakistan is facing unprecedented development. Unfortunately, uncontrolled population and support from government in de- challenges of acute shortages of there is no control on prices of rapid urbanization. The main livering housing loans at mar- planned housing with unhealthy land, material and quality of de- reason for inadequate housing ginal interest rates which are living conditions. The infrastruc- sign; though government and lies on incumbent governments exorbitantly high otherwise. ture to steer housing develop- private sector has bylaws, but who successively have failed to Although every major city in ment is in extreme dilapidated are violated by and large. address this basic need of its cit- Pakistan has its own develop- condition and virtually is non-ex- The developing countries are izens. The governments come ment authority, yet we see un- istent, because the staff they own still in acute need of housing, a into power with votes of poor planned development commonly is usually incompetent hired po- basic need, even in the 21st cen- electorate, but instead of creat- called slums, which after some litically or on the merit of nepo- tury. The unabated rise in prices ing space for the development of time become Pakki Abadies tism. The condition in many of land and building materials in poor and middle class their pref- under the auspices of City Devel- urban and sub urban areas is Pakistan has made it impossible erence has been the higher in- opment Authorities or Provincial critically deplorable in the form for low or middle income house- come groups. The land and or Federal governments to win of slums surrounding them. holds to have decent standard of material rates have never been the votes, it is political exploita- (To be continued) 24

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Tezgam Fire Incident Steps needed for the betterment By Mr. Fawad Ateeq Barry, CEO, Haseen Habib Trading (Pvt) Ltd takes place and then re- Strict laws should be sume back to our igno- formulated. rance. At this point, we In developed nations should take responsibil- such as Europe and the ity and rapid action, in UK, trains are an every- recognition to the nu- day means of transport merous innocent lives and the fire safety and lost by installing fire prevention measures on safety devices in our them are fool-proof. All railway system. trains have air condi- In each of the bogies, tioners and are temper- there should be an ex- ature controlled. The tinguisher, which bullet trains there are should be used in case built with the latest fire The Tezgam ex- of a fire breaking out. safety system, the press incident has Fire alarm systems EN4554, in which all jolted the nation should be placed in material from chairs to in which 75 innocent trains so that if there’s curtains, everything on lives were lost. Who is a fire, the drivers along the train is fireproof. In responsible for this with the passengers be- each of the compart- loss? Is the price of life come aware of the fire. ments, there is the CO2 in our country that less, Furthermore the wires automatic extinguish- or is it nothing at all? used inside trains ing system, in which Our railway minister should be made fire- fires are dealt with au- says that the tragedy proof and security scan- tomatically without any took place because of a ners and cameras human efforts and are gas cylinder explosion, should be installed on contained within 100 when on the other railway platforms. feet. We are far behind hand; passengers re- Bans should be put on in this regard, however port it to be a short cir- highly flammable items now is definitely a good cuit fire. It is our such as gas cylinders, time, to move towards normal protocol as a na- alternatives for heating betterment so we do not tion that we wake up such as microwaves and have to face such hor- for a short period of electronic heaters rific tragedies in the fu- time after an incident should be installed. ture. 25

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Engineering Innovations Innovation in the field of Technology will lift Pakistan in Future Every year growing regions by per- around this centage increase in con- time, GitHub re- tributors with a 71% leases a report called increase. This is an The State of the Octo- amazing feat for Pak- verse which explains istan and is indicative the open source activ- of the flourishing tech- ity that has been tak- nology culture in the ing place on in the country. The report world over the past 12 also included some months encourages the other important statis- open source culture tics, like fastest grow- highlighting the im- ing technologies and portance of contribut- top trending open ing to open source source projects. An- projects, especially in other important statis- developing countries. tic given in the report is This year, Pakistan the popularity of pro- has been ranked 4th in gramming languages, terms of percentage which can help budding growth of open source programmers decide projects on GitHub. which language they Pakistan’s open source want to master. This projects have grown a year, Python overtook staggering 41% over Java to become the sec- last year’s number, ond most popular lan- thus earning a place guage to be used in among countries like open source projects. Greece, and Saudi Ara- This might be down to bia which recorded the increasing popular- 41% themselves as ity of machine learning well. Nigeria leads the projects, which are rankings with a very mostly built using impressive 59% fol- Python. Meanwhile, lowed by Iran and JavaScript retains its Kenya at 44% and In- place in the top spot, donesia at 42%. Fur- which it has kept ever thermore, Pakistan is since the report first also among the fastest came out in 2014. 26

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Engineering Innovations Replica of WhatsApp will be a productive step toward future We are living in the era of ford the leak of such sensitive in- personal and govern- formation to its enemy. Just like ments’ data leak all any other country government around the world on the bases of leader in Pakistan uses Black- which Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf berry encryption services for sen- government has decided to de- sitive data sharing. Whole data velop its own messaging app for will be localized with the new sys- communication between state in- tem that the government is plan- stitutions. ning to The appli- launch. cation will Only the be a re- govern- placement ment of for current Pakistan available will have third-party full power services in- over the cluding control and WhatsApp. safety of This will data. Since be a great Pakistan initiative Tehreek-e- for Pak- Insaf came istan and a into power big step to- their main wards its focus is on independ- the devel- ence from opment of those foreign messaging applica- the country through technology. tions. The communication data They realize that technology is between the government officials the future and it can be a great or institutions is mostly confiden- tool to regulate government au- tial, therefore a state cannot af- thorities. 27

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Spectacular Pakistan Pavilion established at ADIPEC Avery spacious and incredible vestment in the country, promote Pakistan Pavilion was estab- Government's investor friendly poli- lished at the Abu Dhabi Inter- cies and enhance the country's over- national Petroleum Exhibition & all image. Pakistan Pavilion Conference (ADIPEC), one of the received extensive appreciation by world's most influential energy sec- the national and international oil tor events, which were held from 11- and gas community. 14 November 2019 in Abu Dhabi Participating companies from National Exhibition Centre Pakistan included Govern- (ADNEC), United Arab ment Holdings (Pvt.) Emirates. The Limited, Mari Pe- Pakistan pavil- troleum Com- ion was estab- pany Limited lished by the (MPCL), Oil & Pakistan's Gas Develop- Ministry of En- ment Com- ergy (Petro- pany Limited leum Division), (OGDCL), Petroleum In- Pak-Arab Re- stitute of Pak- finery Limited istan (PIP) and (PARCO), leading national oil and gas compa- Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL), nies. Pakistan LNG Terminals Limited The theme of the Pakistan Pavil- (PLTL), Pakistan LNG Limited ion was 'Pakistan - Emerging Op- (PLL), Sui Northern Gas Pipelines portunities'. The exquisitely created Limited (SNGPL) and Sui Southern pavilion was well-equipped with Gas Co. Limited (SSGC) with PIP as spacious meeting spaces. The Pavil- a focal point of the industry, under ion provided Pakistan's oil and gas the patronage of Ministry of Energy sectors' heads and professionals an (Petroleum Division). The Pakistani exceptional opportunity to have B2B delegation was headed by Nadeem meetings with delegates and visitors Babar, Special Assistant to the and explore new business opportu- Prime Minister (SAPM) on Petro- nities, encourage foreign direct in- leum Division.- 28

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Raza Abbas Shah appointed CEO Engineering Development Board After a gap of more than two mended a panel of following three and a half years Raza Abbas candidates in order of merit for ap- Shah has been appointed as pointment against the post of CEO, Chief Executive Officer of Engi- EDB: (i) Raza Abbas Shah; (ii) neering Development Board (EDB). Naveed Akram Ansari; and (iii) The post has been vacant since Waqar Ahmed Khan. March 31, 2017. The business of the Ministry of Industries and Pro- organisation was being carried out duction proposed to the Cabinet on look-after basis. A new CEO for that a suitable candidate from the Pakistan Industrial Development panel should be appointed CEO Corporation (PIDC) has also been EDB in MP-1 scale for a period of appointed. Rizwan Bhatti has been two years subject to one month no- chosen for the post of CEO PIDC. tice from either side. The position of CEO, EDB was The Cabinet has approved the advertised in the leading national name of Raza Abbas Shah as CEO dailies on August 18, 2019. A total EDB. He will assume charge after of 91 applications were received up a formal notification is issued by to the closing date of the advertise- the Ministry of Industries and Pro- ment. The Selection Board recom- duction. Cabinet approves Dasu Dam Project Prime Minister’s Special As- tan District, Khyber sistant on Information and Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pak- Broadcasting Dr Firdous istan. The 242 m (794 ft) tall dam Ashiq Awan while briefing the will support a 4,320 MW hydro- media persons about the cabinet electric power station which will meeting said that Executive Com- be built in two 2,160 MW stages. mittee of the National Economic Water from the reservoir will be Council (ECNEC) has already ap- diverted to the power station lo- proved construction of Dasu Dam. cated about 3.5 km (2.2 mi) down- It is expected that work on the stream. The first stage was project will be initiated in the approved by the Executive Com- coming month. mittee of the National Economic Dasu Dam is a gravity dam cur- Council on 29 March 2014. That rently being constructed on the stage will cost an estimated Indus River near Dasu in Kohis- US$4.278 billion. 29

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 KE vows to invest $3bn for development and improvement of energy infrastructure Aamir Ghaziani, Chief Fi- about 1,000 MVAs of transmis- nancial Officer of KE at the sion capacity through seven grid Corporate Analyst Briefing stations and associated power session held at the Pakistan lines and systems. Four grids and Stock Exchange (PSX) revealed 22 power transformers have al- that K-Electric (KE) plans to in- ready been energised under TP- vest more than $3bn in the next 1000 project. This will be followed four years for by few other the im- transmis- prove- sion proj- ment of ects, trans- which mission will fur- capacity ther im- and in- prove creasing network the gen- reliabil- eration. ity and The enhance CFO also KE’s said that to transmis- maintain this sion capacity. growth momentum, investments The power utility’s plans to en- in infrastructure across the value hance distribution capacity chain is crucial including a 900 through the addition of 300 feed- MW RLNG-based BQPS-III, a ers and over 5,000 transformers 700 MW coal-based IPP project, were also discussed at the ses- and Transmission and Distribu- sion, as well as planned invest- tion related projects. ments in the reliability of KE’s He further said that the com- network and loss reduction pany’s over USD 450 million TP- through the conversion of 15,000 1000 project is on course for PMTs to Aerial Bundled Cable successful completion, adding (ABC) by 2023 30

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Japan increasing Business investments in Pakistan Consul General of Japan, Japanese companies are set up Toshikazu Isomura while in India but due to the increased speaking at a meeting of tensions in the region they face Karachi Chamber of Commerce a lot of difficulties in exporting & Industry(KCCI) announced goods to Pakistan. that that two to three Highlighting the operations of more Japanese companies some major Japanese are about to arrive in companies in Pakistan, Pakistan to estab- he particularly lish their b u s i n e s s mentioned that Suzuki, units. As of now there Honda, Toyota, Isuzu and are 80 Japanese companies Hino are successfully run- which are successfully oper- ning their businesses in the ating from Pakistan. automobile sector while Nis- Pakistan and Afghanistan san will also start its opera- together represent a huge tions from Pakistan soon. market with a population of Recently, Japanese Mori- around 250 million which naga Company also inau- could offer a lot of trade gurated a state of the art and investment opportuni- factory in Sheikhupura ties to the Japanese busi- which is fully functional ness community looking forward whereas DID Group Japan to expand businesses in this im- through a joint venture with portant region. Atlas Honda was also establish- The one problem he com- ing a factory for motorcycle plained about was that many chain production in Pakistan. 31

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Pakistan to pay $ 165 million for Out of court settlement of Karkey dispute PM Imran Khan in his tweet Services Intelligence (ISI) and an given a guarantee in writing that April 23, 2009 for generation of informed the nation that the officer from Attorney General’s Of- GoP or NAB will not take any fur- electric power with the Lakhra dispute of Rental Power fice made more than ten vis- ther action against the com- Power Generation Company Lim- Project with M/s Karkey has been its to Turkey to meet the pany or its representatives ited (LPGCL). Pursuant to the amicably resolved and saved Pak- officials of M/s Karkey in Pakistan. terms of the RSC, the GoP issued istan from paying the $1.2 billion Karaddeniz Electric M/s Karkey had set up a sovereign guarantee to secure penalty imposed by the Interna- Uretim, where the com- a 332 ship-mounted payment obligations of LPGCL tional Centre for Settlement of In- pany’s officials were Rental Power Project and Karkey achieved commercial vestment Disputes (ICSID). shown documents which (RPP) at Port Qasim, operations in April 2011. In the Pakistan has agreed to pay $ 165 proved that kickbacks Karachi, pursuant to meanwhile, the Supreme Court in million to Turkish company M/s were involved in Rental Power exercise of its original jurisdiction Karkey Karaddeniz Electric Ure- the contract. Policy 2008. initiated suo motu proceedings tim. After the out M/s Karkey against RPPs and through its de- According to sources a commit- of court settle- entered into tailed judgment of March 30, 2012, tee comprising Joint Secretary ment the Rental Serv- declared all RSCs void ab initio, (Power Finance) Zargham Eshaq Turkish firm ices Contract being illegal and against public Khan, two senior officers of Inter- has been (RSC) on policy. EnginEEring Mart ENGINEERING POST www.enggpost.com 32

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ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Govt to strictly monitor quality of Solar Panels The Federal Gov- Cabinet on Septem- ber of of clarity amongst the istan National Ac- Control Authority ernment has de- ber 17,2015 approved s h i p - stakeholders, pre- creditation Council (PSQCA) and im- cided to the summary of m e n t s shipment compa- (PNAC), Pakistan porters of the solar formulate a compre- Water and regarding g o t nies and border Standard and Quality PV equipment etc. hensive policy to curb the \"introduction of s t u c k agencies re- import of sub-stan- quality standards for at the garding dard solar equipment. import of solar PV p o r t s the doc- The decision was equipment into Pak- a n d umenta- taken at the recent istan. After which the t h e tion meeting of Federal Commerce Division im- require- Cabinet during ratifi- issued SRO 604(1)/ ments cation of the ECC de- 2019 on May 28, 2019 under SRO cision taken on a to implement 604. summary of Com- t h e In order to merce Division titled d e - resolve the issue, \"Implementation of c i - the Commerce Di- the quality standards s i o n vision convened an on the import of solar of the inter-ministerial PV equipment under C a b i - meeting of the stake- SRO 604(1)/ 2019.\" net. holders on August 5, On November 1, A f t e r 2019 which was at- 2019, the Commerce implemen- porters tended by the repre- Division informed the tation of the c o m - sentatives of Power ECC that the Federal SRO, a num- plained of lack Division, AEDB, Pak- 34

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ENGINEERING POST December-2019 National Electric ML-1 Project to Vehicles policy to be be inaugurated completed in Phases in 2020 In the first week of November a Chi- nese delegation led by Director Gen- eral of China’s National Railway Administration (NRA) Yan Hexiang called The National Electric Vehi- nation Committee. on the Federal Minister for Railways cle (NEV) Policy has been formulated by the Climate According to the long term tar- Sheikh Rashid Ahmed at Islamabad. Dur- gets set in the policy, production ing their meeting both sides expressed Change Division. It has been de- targets for vehicles in the two, satisfaction over the progress on the $9.2 veloped to expedite the introduc- three and four wheeler category billion Main Line (ML-1) project. tion of Electric vehicles (EV) in have been set at 500,000 units While talking to the media Sheikh the country. According to an es- with companies given access to Rasheed said that the Chinese leader- timate transportation accounts the market within the next five ship would be invited next year on the for over 40 percent of the air- years. By 2030, the target has inauguration ceremony of the $9.2 bil- borne emissions and EVs can been set at 900,000 units and by lion project, which would be completed substantially reduce this num- 2040 the target is 90% of sold ve- in five years. The project would connect ber while at the same time con- hicles Pakistan through train with China, siderably shrinking the fuel fuel import bill substitution The PML (N) government in Central Asia and Iran. through targeted penetration of its federal budget 2018-19 had After the upgradation of the 1,872 import bill. The NEV policy will be imple- electric (year 3 and 4); and (iii) reduced customs duty on the im- kilometres long rail network the dis- mented in the following phases. reasonable local adoption and port of electric cars from 50 per- tance between Karachi to Rawalpindi (i) market development and pub- export of electric vehicles and its cent to 25 percent, in addition to would be shrunk to only 10 hours. The lic awareness through incentives components (year 5 and beyond). exemption from 15 percent regu- project would significantly help increase and subsidies on electric vehicles The NEV policy is yet to be ap- latory duty, and fixing import the overall production of the country after its completion in next five years. manufacturers (year 1 and 2); (ii) proved by the Economic Coordi- duty at 10 per cent on CKD. 36

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Policy initiatives planned by the federal government during financial year 2019-20 Engineering Post Report gathered from official sources, do- Additional employment oppor- mestically 1.2 million jobs are tunities will be generated Certain policy initiatives are planned to be created at the through promotion of Self-Em- most likely to be taken by growth rate of 4 per cent during ployment Schemes/Entrepreneur- the federal government 2019-20. All out efforts are being ship and improvement in status during on-going financial year to made for placemen of 0.8 million of employment. put in place an efficient, equi- workers abroad. The overseas em- Furthermore, Services, Infor- table and a rights based labour ployment promoters will be facil- mation and Communication Tech- market in the country that will itated to seek maximum nology (ICT), Entertainment, provide a mechanism to allow overseas employment opportuni- Travel and Tourism sectors productive growth in the na- ties during the period under re- would be focused for further em- tional economy and to result in port. ployment generation. real wage increase. Furthermore, strengthening of Skill training on latest ma- Colossal endeavours by the in- Small & Medium Enterprises chines and equipment to supply cumbent federal government like (SMEs) and labour intensive sec- CPEC required skilled manpower announcement of provision of 10 tors will be prioritized during the will also be prioritized. Appren- million jobs during its tenure, current financial year. ticeship/On Job training in de- great game changer China-Pak- Prime Minister’s Youth Skill mand-driven trades through istan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Development Programme through relevant industries will also be fo- and projects in different sectors National Vocational and Technical cused. Mapping of industries and under its umbrella, Youth Devel- raining Commission (NAVTTC) corporate sector will be done to opment Programme with the aim and promotion of overseas em- find out the needs for introducing to provide various opportunities ployment will be helpful in new programmes as per emerging to the youth. achieving the targeted level of needs of industry and corporate According to the information employment in the country. sector on priority basis.

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 Pakistan wastes $2 billion worth of water every year Mismanagement of re- and making Pakistan a water sources leads to over $2 scarce country. billion worth of fresh This year’s network meeting water wasted into the sea every objectives were to ensure multi- year while 64 per cent of Pakista- stakeholder ownership for the nis are deprived of safe and clean Water Stewardship Strategy in drinking water. This Pakistan along with was revealed at the creation of a the fourth An- dedicated team of nual Pakistan water stewards Water Steward- who will work to- ship Network wards scaling up (PWSN) meeting AWS in Pakistan. organised in La- Usually, in the hore. Alliance for water sector debate, Water Steward- the private sector is ship (AWS) hosted missing but through the meeting in col- AWS it gives all laboration with major stakeholders WWF-Pakistan, to sit at one place and Nestle Pakistan discuss their similar and Planning and water challenges. Development De- Through the AWS partment (P&D), standard, WWF-Pak- government of Pun- istan is helping and jab in Lahore. supporting the private During the meet- sector to implement re- ing it was discussed that sponsible practices that per capita surface water availabil- can improve water efficiency, re- ity has declined from 5,260 cubic duces water usage, and address meters per year in 1951 to around shared water challenges for bet- 1,000 cubic meters in 2016. The ter basin governance, conse- availability is predicted to drop to quently benefiting people and about 860 cubic meters by 2025 nature. 38

ENGINEERING POST December-2019 NUST, the First Pakistani University with 500 filed and more than 100 awarded patents National University of Sci- Health, Telecommunication, Man- ences & Technology ufacturing, etc. (NUST) has become the The transfer of these IPRs has first Pakistani university to cross not only geared up indigenous the figure manufac- of 500 turing in filed and the coun- 100 try but awarded also facili- patents - tated im- NUST port stands substitu- aloft with tion and its intel- savings to lectual the na- property tional ex- soaring chequer, as high in well as numbers with 501 patents filed availability of products to Pak- and 109 awarded. istani consumers at much lower NUST has also been spearhead- prices than imported ones. ing the transfer of university R&D It also merits mention that and new technologies to the indus- apart from becoming a permanent try, virtually joining the league of stream of revenue generation for 4th generation HEIs the world inventors and the university, the over. growing number of awarded Since 2018, NUST has trans- patents has contributed to NUST's ferred 5 technologies with 12 In- enhanced standing among the tellectual Property Rights (IPRs) global varsities as well as improv- to industries in domains including ing Pakistan's innovation index. 39

Super six wind power project to generate 310MW The Super Six wind power project is ity of 350MW. This will generate more than million investment for the project for their being established in the Jhimpir wind 1,000-gigawatt hours of electricity annually, support in the implementation of govern- corridor in Sindh province with a capac- enough to power 450,000 homes. The program ment's development goals. is also expected to lead to reductions of about 650,000 tons of CO2 per year. Financing agreements for the landmark wind power program were signed by Interna- tional Finance Corporation (IFC)’s Senior Manager, Nadeem Siddiqui and private sec- tor power developers at a special ceremony attended by Prime Minister Imran Khan and Federal Minister for Energy Omar Ayub. The PM acknowledged the support of the World Bank (WB) and IFC for six wind projects and stated that the country has moved on stabi- lization after a difficult time period of one year. All Super Six projects are being developed by domestic companies: ACT Group, Artistic Milliners (Private) Limited, Din Group, Gul Ahmed Group, and Younus Brothers Group. The government is aiming to increase the non-hydro renewable energy share from 4 percent to 20 percent by 2025. Earlier Advi- sor to Prime Minister on Finance and Rev- enue, Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh in a tweet thanked the World Bank (WB) and Interna- tional Finance Corporation (IFC) for the $450