QUETTA: A 50-member team of field technicians of geological survey of Pakistan will go to the Khappar area of Mekran district to conduct preliminary investigations for oil and sulphur during the first week of next month, it was authoritatively learnt here yesterday [Sept 22].

The Divisional authorities of Kalat are re­­ported to have extended all facilities and assistance to geologists in carrying out investigations.

Geologists will collect necessary physical and geological data at Kohi Demak, between ports of Gwadur and Pasni and further exploration will follow the technical interpretation of the results achieved.

Details of the operation have already been discussed at a meeting of the Commissioner of Kalat division and a three-member team of geologists.

The team was of the view that the possibility of finding oil or sulphur could not be ruled out on the basis of the preliminary survey of earth formation in Khappar area.

[Meanwhile, as reported by our correspondent in Rawalpindi,] President Ayub Khan will inaugurate the Karachi Television Station on Nov 2, it was announced after a cabinet meeting of the Presidential Cabinet here this morning [Sept 23].

The building and the studio of the station are coming up according to schedule.

The station was to be inaugurated originally on Revolution Day — Oct 27. But as the President will be abroad on his tour of Europe and Turkey at that time, its inauguration has been delayed by a few days, an official spokesman told newsmen.

Agency adds, Test programmes will start in the last week of October.

Karachi station will start with three to four hours programmes daily.

It may be added that conversion of the existing Rawalpindi-Islamabad, Lahore and Dacca television units into full-fledged stations is in process.

Published in Dawn, September 24th, 2017