QUETTA, Nov 4: Iran has started electricity supply to a Pakistani border town of Mashkal in the Balochistan on Monday.

“People of Mashkal started receiving the power at 6pm,” the Quetta Electricity Supply Company (Qesco) announced late evening and said that the town would get continuous power supply.

The Qesco engineers had laid down the 19-km transmission line in only one-month time from the Iranian border to Mashkal at a cost of Rs11 million.

Mashkal is the first Pakistani town to get the electricity supply from Iran under an agreement signed for providing electricity to the border areas in the Makran division and Kharan district. At present 179 consumers of the Mashkal town would get power supply, which would be doubled within a month, Qesco sources said.