The New Nation - Internet Edition

AP, Islamabad

Pakistan's foreign minister says China has signed an agreement with this energy starved Islamic nation to help it build two more nuclear power plants.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi says the agreement was included among 12 accords and Memorandums of Understandings that were signed between the two sides during President Asif Ali Zardari's recent visit to Beijing.

China has already helped Pakistan set up a nuclear power plant about 124 miles southwest of the capital Islamabad. The work on a second such plant is in progress, and it is expected to be completed in 2011.

Quereshi says Pakistan will get an additional 680 megawatts of electricity after the completion of these two new nuclear power plants.