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Pakistan seeks India's cooperation in renewable energy sector

By : Sustainability ..., Jul 18, 2013

Pakistan has sought India's cooperation in the renewable energy sector, especially use of solar power for agriculture, Pakistan High Commissioner Salman Bashir said Tuesday.

"A team from Pakistan is already in India to study renewable and energy sector. The team is...

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Subject Tags: energy , India , Pakistan

India looking to sell 500 MW electricity to Pakistan

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 3, 2012

India is looking to sell 500 MW of electricity to Pakistan by establishing a transmission link between the two countries.

"A Group of experts of India and Pakistan met in Islamabad last month to explore the possibility of a 500 MW cross border transmission inter-...

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Subject Tags: electricity , Pakistan

Pakistan, India, US overusing groundwater

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 9, 2012

Heavily-populated regions of Asia, the arid Middle East and parts of the US corn belt are dangerously over-exploiting their underground water supplies, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.

"The countries that are overusing groundwater most...

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Subject Tags: India , Pakistan , Technology

PM offered Pakistan 5,000 MW electricity

By : Anonymous, Mar 29, 2012

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offered to provide Pakistan 5,000 MW of electricity during a meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in Seoul, according to a Pakistani media report on Wednesday.

Singh made the...

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India, Pak to talk energy trade in Oct

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 1, 2011

 India and Pakistan are set to discuss initiatives to open energy trade between the two countries. A group of experts from both sides is to meet around October to examine the feasibility, scope and modalities of such trade. According to decisions arrived at during the April...

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Subject Tags: India , Pakistan , Technology

Water Dispute Raises Tension Between India and Pakistanis

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 21, 2010

In this high Himalayan valley on the Indian-controlled side of Kashmir, the latest battle line between India and Pakistan has been drawn.

his time it is not the ground underfoot, which has been disputed since the bloody partition of British India in 1947, but the water...

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Subject Tags: Business , Labor , Law , Pakistan , War

Natural gas pipeline deal struck between Iran and Pakistan

By : sustainabilityo..., May 29, 2010

In reaction to the countries growing energy requirements that have caused severe electricity shortages, Pakistan has now signed a $7.6 billion natural gas pipeline deal with Iran.

The deal between the two countries was reached in Turkey on Tuesday.  Initially, the...

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Subject Tags: Business , Pakistan

Indo-Pak Water Commissioners to meet next week

By : sustainabilityo..., May 26, 2010

After threatening to move World Bank over Kishenganga project, Pakistan is set to rake up with India the issue of two more hydel power units being constructed in Jammu and Kashmir when Indus Water Commissioners of the two countries meet here on May 31. "Pakistan has...

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Subject Tags: Pakistan

South Asian leaders admit SAARC failure; blame India, Pakistan

By : sustainabilityo..., May 5, 2010

South Asian leaders Wednesday admitted their mutual differences, particulary those between India and Pakistan, failed SAARC to overcome key challenges of poverty, climate change and terrorism in the region as they met for their 16th summit in the Bhutan capital Wednesday....

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Subject Tags: Pakistan , Technology

Could Melting Glaciers Force Indo-Pak Water Cooperation

By : sustainabilityo..., Apr 5, 2010

India and Pakistan are sparring over water-sharing in the Indus River basin. But some environmental experts say the ominous forces of climate change in the Himalayas might force the two countries to play nice – eventually.

Himalayan glaciers are slowly melting and...

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Subject Tags: Pakistan