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STRATEGIC ISSUES AND DIPLOMACY
Despite wonderful human, land, water,
mineral and other resources, the economy since inception remained dependent on imports
for:
1. defence and hardware
2. Energy and oil
3. Food - food dependence is the worst dependence
4. medicines
5. high-tech and medium-tech machinery
Energy supply pattern changed
1976
Hydel 70%
Thermal 30%
1997
Hydel 22%
Thermal 78%
This has lead to unstable prices and heavy imports |
Nuclear Resources and Energy
1. Karachi (KANNUP) 137 MW
Chashma (Chinese assisted) 300 MW
Uranium reserves 700 tonnes |
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