Daily Times reported that the overseas Pakistanis have offered their financial assistance of USD 115 million for the underground coal gasification project to produce 100 MWs electricity in the country.

Dr Mirza Ikhtiar Baig, Federal Advisor on Textile addressing a conference on we need crisis or growth, said that the project was facing financial constraints. The financial support was conveyed to Dr Samar Mubarakmand, who informed Dr Baig that since it was a government financed project by the federal government and as such they cannot accept cash funds from overseas Pakistanis but requested to arrange machinery and equipments.

(Sourced from www.dailytimes.com.pk)