Going solar: Korean firm to invest in K-P

A private Korean company, PAKO HITEK, has shown special interest in investing in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s solar energy sector. A delegation of the company, headed by chairman Choi Hee Joon, called on Adviser to Chief Minister on Economic Affairs Rafaqatullah Babar at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat in Peshawar and discussed with him matters related to investment in various sectors including hydel power generation and solar energy. The company showed willingness to invest in solar energy, especially in converting street lights of Peshawar to solar. Babar proposed the company to focus on Hayatabad in its first leg and convert its street lights as a pilot project and then extend it to the rest of the city. Talking to the foreign delegates, Babar said the provincial government will also provide the investors with the necessary facilities.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 7^th, 2014.