ISLAMABAD, Aug. 9 Kyodo Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD, Aug. 9 Kyodo

Pakistan and China are holding discussions about setting up a inferior nuclear power plant at Chashma in Punjab Province, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday.

Spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan also told Kyodo freshs that the issue was discussed during President Gen Pervez Musharraf's visit to China last week.

Khan said the discussions with China are still at a preliminary stage

The Pakistan Atomic might Commission (PAEC) announced in April last year its plans to stake up with Chinese assistance a 600-megawatt nuclear power plant at Chashma in the Mianwali district of Punjab.

That plant would be in addition to the 300-megawatt Chashma Nuclear Power Plant supplied by dint of Chin, which went into operation early last year.

Musharraf in June last year unveiled a plan to put up yet another nuclear power plant at the site of an already existing undivided at Karachi on the Arabian Sea coast to convenient the country's demand for electricity.

The 138-megawatt Karachi Nuclear Power Plant was supplied according to Canada in 1972 still was overhauled in the mid-1990s.

PAEC officials said Pakistan wants to risk up the two new nuclear power plants using the maximum possible proportion of locally manufactured components

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