ISLAMABAD:

The Senate Standing Committee on Power met at Parliament House under the chairmanship of Senator Mohsin Aziz.

According to an official statement released on Monday, the committee discussed the 207 MW Madyan and 88 MW Gabral hydropower projects and other energy initiatives. The Special Assistant to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister on Energy said land worth Rs5 billion had been purchased for the projects, and physical and financial progress had been made. However, the federal government removed them from the Indicative Generation Capacity Expansion Plan (IGCEP) list.

Federal Minister for Power Awais Ahmad Leghari said K-P authorities had not fully presented the Council of Common Interests (CCI)-approved power policy. Citing one clause without context was misleading,

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