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Korangi CETP finally opens

29/05/2007

Pakistan’s President General Pervez Musharraf officially inaugurated the Combined Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) at the Karachi tannery cluster area in Korangi Industrial Area on May 26, nearly five years after it was originally due to open and some 11 years since the project was initially developed.

The long-awaited ceremony was attended by Governor of Sindh, Ishratul Ibad khan, Chief Minister of Sindh, Arbab Ghulam Rahim, Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Commerce, Humayun Aktar Khan, Minister of State & Chief Executive of Trade Development Authority, Tariq Ikram, president of the PTA Environmental Society, Gulzar Firoz, and Sindh Minister for Industries, Muhammad Adil Siddiqui.

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