Brussels: Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has urged multilateral development institutions to consider aggressive financing of nuclear energy projects.
In a video message on the sidelines of a nuclear energy summit in Brussels, he said it would help developing countries install nuclear power plants. He said other heads of delegations at the summit have also asked international financial institutions to consider the same.
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The foreign minister said that nuclear power is considered the safest source of energy after hydropower. He said that Pakistan has installed nuclear power capacity of more than thirty five hundred megawatts. He pointed out that Pakistan is also building another nuclear power plant, Chashma-5, in cooperation with China.
