Pakistan 'needs more N-plants'

President Mohammad Rafiq Tarar has said Pakistan needs more than one nuclear plant to meet its energy resources. Speaking at a convocation of the country's only nuclear plant near Karachi, he said that fossil reserves of the country were limited in quantity and the potential for hydro-electric resources not fully realised.

Tarar said those countries relying on nuclear energy were in the forefront of progress. Pakistan too had to rely heavily on its nuclear plant, though it produced limited quantity of power, the supplies produced by the nuclear plant at Karachi, were cheaper than that produced by hydel or gas. It was, therefore, necessary to diversify the resources of energy production he said, while distributing degrees to students graduating from the nuclear institute set up by the atomic energy commission at KanupP site.


Later, the president inaugurated a new car assembly plant . This will be Pakistan's fourth auto assembly project. Three are already functioning – two in Karachi and one in Lahore. Speaking later at Iqra university, the president said the the present government has adopted a new education strategy which besides providing for compulsory primary education and technical know-how at the secondary level also provides for doubling the number of universities, upgrading the curriculum, improving the quality of instructions and promoting information technology.