When complete, CASA-1000 transmission lines will move electricity at high voltages between the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan and from Tajikistan to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"CASA-1000 would be an even greater project if Russia joins it and extends its borders, so the electricity grid in our country will be joined with one in Russia," Zaheer Janjua told Sputnik.
According to a statement published on the website of the Russian embassy to Pakistan "Russia is ready to join it and co-invest" in the project that "promises to be of benefit to all parties."
"We have talked to Russian companies. In March, the World Bank Group approved financing," Zaheer Janjua stated adding that Russia has the expertise not only in construction and transmission but is also closely involved with the Central Asian republics.
CASA-1000 will build more than 1,200 kilometers of electricity transmission lines and associated substations to transmit excess summer hydropower energy from existing power generation stations in Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
