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Reko Diq: Pakistan risks squandering billions in questionable deal
KARACHI: In what is being described as the most unfair business deal of the decade, the multi-billion-dollar Reko Diq copper-and-gold project has been placed at the mercy of a consortium of companies who may walk away with its riches, robbing the country of a golden opportunity to lift itself out of its growing external debt.
The consortium will take away 75 per cent of the income while the Balochistan government will get a paltry 25 per cent of share from the project as part of the terms of agreement.
Geologists have estimated that Reko Diq contains mineral deposits worth $500 billion and if the authorities did not take action immediately, this golden opportunity of turning around Pakistan’s fate will be lost.
North Waziristan
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Huge copper, gold reserves in N Waziristan: Samar
LAHORE - Nuclear scientist Dr Samar Mubarikmand has disclosed that copper mines and gold reserves have been located in North Waziristan.
Addressing the ninth convocation of the Government College University, he said that Pakistan was one of the richest countries of the world in terms of mineral reserves and proper exploration was needed in this regard.
“If we put steps in the right way, Pakistan would be a developed state in next 10 to 20 years,” he said.
He said that according to recent evaluation, the copper and gold reserves in Balochistan are amounted to 273 billion dollars and the same kind of reserves had also been discovered in North Waziristan.
**Dr Samar said that despite the fact that our coal reserves were located in powder form under water, Pakistan could produce 50,000 megawatt electricity and 100 million barrel diesel just through the gasification of these reserves. **