Agreement for windmill power plants in Northern areas

ISLAMABAD: Agreement has been reached between UNDP and Alternative Energy Board for installing 103 small windmill power plants at a cost of 9.2 million dollars in Northern areas.

Chief Executive Office of the Alternative Energy Board and country director UNDP signed the agreement here.

These windmill plants will generate 15 megawatts of electricity.

On the occasion Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervez Ashraf said up to 1,000 megawatts of electricity can be produced with the help of small windmill projects.

The government has plans to provide electricity to 100,030 villages, he said.

Obama to propose new peace plan for Middle East

WASHINGTON: United States President Barack Obama intends to propose a new peace plan for the Middle East that "will emphasize the whole region" and include all the moderate Arab states, Israeli media said.

The solutions, which include a Palestinian state adjacent to Israel, would require both Israelis and Palestinians to cross some of their self-declared red lines.

Palestinians would have to give up the demand for their refugees' "right of return" to areas that are now part of Israel proper, and would instead have to settle for compensation or the option of moving to the West Bank or Gaza Strip.

The capital of the Palestinian state would be in East Jerusalem, which is currently under Israeli control. Most controversially, the plan includes a proposal that the Old City – with sites holy to the three major monotheistic religions – would become an international zone under the flag of the United Nations. Such an arrangement was proposed in the 1947 UN partition plan but was never implemented.

Khursheed Shah rules out end to load-shedding by Dec

LAHORE: Federal Minister for Labour and Manpower Syed Khursheed Shah Thursday ruled out the possibility of bringing and end to the load-shedding by December this year, saying it would require more time.

He said this while talking to media here at the zonal office of Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries.

The Minister said about four to five megawatts of additional electricity will be produced by December 2009 ... Full Story