KARACHI: The CEO of Kuwaiti state-owned firm EnerTech said on Wednesday the firm wanted to invest in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, especially in the areas of water distribution, solar systems, and cattle breeding for the export of halal meat.
He said this while leading a delegation to meet Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, and other energy-related senior Pakistani officials.
EnerTech is a fully-owned subsidiary of Kuwait’s National Technology Enterprises Company (NTEC).
“Established in 2012, EnerTech’s mission is to initiate its own development projects and participate in projects within the energy, clean technology, recycling, water, waste management and renewable energy sectors,” the company said on its website.
The visiting delegation told the chief minister the firm was interested in working with the provincial government in the water sector.
“Our company would make direct investment and where necessary they would work on PPP [public-private partnership] mode,” CEO Abdullah Al Mutairi was quoted as saying in a statement from the Sindh CM’s office.
Mutairi thanked the chief minister for giving his company an opportunity to work in Sindh and said his firm was already working in the southwestern Balochistan province.
Shah said there were multiple opportunities for investment in the Thar desert region, inviting the delegation to visit the area.
He said his government had a comprehensive plan to boost the agriculture sector in the province by installing solar tube wells and introducing calf breeding for export.
“This initiative would be made with the support of the private sector or on a public-private partnership basis,” the CM said, adding that his government was launching a water scheme to provide tap water in different districts of Karachi and calling on the Kuwaiti company to launch a water distribution system in the city.
Currently, much of Karachi’s water needs are met either by the informal private sector or controlled by organized crime.
Shah said the provincial agriculture department had vast cattle farming centers and he would welcome EnerTech to work with the agriculture department to promote and rear new calf breeds for the export of halal meat.
He also invited the Kuwaiti company to become involved in a project to install solar tube wells in the province.
Kuwaiti company to invest in solar and water schemes, cattle breeding in Pakistan’s Sindh
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Kuwaiti company to invest in solar and water schemes, cattle breeding in Pakistan’s Sindh
- Sindh chief minister meets delegation led by CEO of Kuwaiti state-owned firm EnerTech
- Company CEO says ready to make direct investments and work on a public-private partnership basis
Imran Khan not a ‘national security threat,’ ex-PM’s party responds to Pakistan military
- Pakistan’s military spokesperson on Friday described Khan’s anti-army narrative as a “national security threat”
- PTI Chairman Gohar Ali Khan says words used by military spokesperson for Khan were “not appropriate”
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party on Saturday responded to allegations by Pakistan military spokesperson Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry from a day earlier, saying that he was not a “national security threat.”
Chaudhry, who heads the military’s media wing as director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), spoke to journalists on Friday, in which he referred to Khan as a “mentally ill” person several times during the press interaction. Chaudhry described Khan’s anti-army narrative as a “national security threat.”
The military spokesperson was responding to Khan’s social media post this week in which he accused Chief of Defense Forces Field Marshal Asim Munir of being responsible for “the complete collapse of the constitution and rule of law in Pakistan.”
“The people of Pakistan stand with Imran Khan, they stand with PTI,” the party’s secretary-general, Salman Akram Raja, told reporters during a news conference.
“Imran Khan is not a national security threat. Imran Khan has kept the people of this country united.”
Raja said there were several narratives in the country, including those that created tensions along ethnic and sectarian lines, but Khan had rejected all of them and stood with one that the people of Pakistan supported.
PTI Chairman Gohar Ali Khan, flanked by Raja, criticized the military spokesperson as well, saying his press talk on Thursday had “severely disappointed” him.
“The words that were used [by the military spokesperson] were not appropriate,” Gohar said. “Those words were wrong.”
‘NATURAL OUTCOME’
Speaking to reporters earlier on Saturday, Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif defended the military spokesperson’s remarks against Khan.
“When this kind of language is used for individuals as well as for institutions, then a reaction is a natural outcome,” he said.
“The same thing is happening on the Twitter accounts being run in his [Khan’s] name. If the DG ISPR has given any reaction to it, then I believe it was a very measured reaction.”
Khan, who was ousted after a parliamentary vote of confidence in April 2022, blames the country’s powerful military for removing him from power by colluding with his political opponents. Both deny the allegations.
The former prime minister, who has been in prison since August 2023 on a slew of charges he says are politically motivated, also alleges his party was denied victory by the army and his political rivals in the 2024 general election through rigging.
The army and the government both deny his allegations.
