LAHORE-Iran, being a brotherly Muslim country, will give electricity to Pakistan on relatively cheap rates due to the power crisis faced by our country and it will help significantly reduce power shortfall, PEPCO officials told The Nation. The teams of PEPCO and WAPDA are working on the feasibility of the project by which 1,000MW electricity will be imported from Iran within a period of next two years, an official revealed. 'The biggest challenge for the govt of Pakistan will be laying the transmission lines from Iran to Pakistan for the electricity import but once it is done it will stem the power crisis in the country, they added. The country has been facing the menace of loadshedding since the last several years due to gap between production and consumption of electricity, PEPCO officials said , adding, that currently efforts are being made to fill the gap by adopting emergency steps like power conservation plans so as to save more power to meet the rising power demands of the people. It is learnt that besides the pressure of power crisis on the government, the idea of import of 1,000MW electricity from Iran sprang out of the friendly relations between the two countries and brotherly offers made in this regard by the Iranian Power Minister and Ambassador to Pakistan during several recent meetings. The officials said the feasibility report of project will be completed next month. Once feasibility report is ready, Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervez Ashraf will visit Iran to finalise further outlines of the project including purchase rate/tariff with the Iranian government. The officials said that more, than negotiations on tariff, work is to be done on the construction of transmission line, which will be up to 750km starting from Iran to Gwadar, Balochistan. 'It is estimated that the transmission line will cost $500 million dollars to Pakistan and it will be difficult in view of hilly area there and poor law and order situation in Balochistan, they added. Water and Power Minister Raja Ashraf and Iranian Ambassador Mashallah Shakeri held a meeting to deliberate on the project. Yet Raja Ashraf and Iranian Minister will have few more meetings to complete homework for visit to Iran where the work plan will be put in black and white after meetings of technical experts, it is said. PEPCO spokesman told The Nation that these days Water and Power Minister and WAPDA teams are busy in preparing the feasibility report to import 1,000MW electricity from Iran. 'PEPCO is saving electricity by adopting conservation plan but it is true that more power is needed to end loadshedding and power crisis on a permanent basis, he added.