CPEC alleviates Pakistan's energy shortage, promotes renewable energy goals: officials
STORY: CPEC alleviates Pakistan's energy shortage, promotes renewable energy goals: officials
DATELINE: Sept. 9, 2022
LENGTH: 0:03:29
LOCATION: Islamabad
CATEGORY: POLITICS
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STORYLINE:
Pakistani officials said Thursday the power projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) help Pakistan alleviate severe energy shortages and promote renewable energy goals.
SOUNDBITE 1 (English): KHURRAM DASTGIR KHAN, Pakistan's Minister for Power
"Pakistan was massively short of energy. There was 18 hours' blackouts, which fortunately since then have not been repeated. This summer was difficult, but not as difficult as 2013. When times were truly tough, and no one else was forthcoming. (It) was China. That is also a fact from which we have to extract our truth. So that's the reason for CPEC. That's why the Chinese companies that are there. Now in 2016, when situation began to stabilize, the whole West suddenly discovered Pakistan as it, you have given so much to China, an
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