ricity:
capacity: 10,800,000 kW (1994)
production: 52.4 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 389 kWh (1993)

Industries: textiles, food processing, beverages, construction
materials, clothing, paper products, shrimp

Agriculture: 24% of GDP; world's largest contiguous irrigation system;
major crops - cotton, wheat, rice, sugarcane, fruits, vegetables;
livestock products - milk, beef, mutton, eggs

Illicit drugs: major illicit producer of opium and hashish for the
international drug trade; remains world's third largest opium producer
(160 metric tons in 1994); major center for processing Afghan heroin
and key transit area for Southwest Asian heroin moving to Western
market

Economic aid:
recipient: $2.5 billion (FY91/92); $2.5 billion (FY92/93); $2.5
billion (FY93/94); no US commitments, includes bi- and multilateral
aid

Currency: 1 Pakistani rupee (PRe) = 100 paisa

Exchange rates: Pakistani rupees (PRs) per US$1 - 30.860 (January
1995), 30.570 (1994), 28.107 (1993), 25.083 (1992), 23.801 (1991),
21.707 (1990)

Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June

@Pakistan:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 8,773 km
broad gauge: 7,718 km 1.676-m gauge (286 km electrified; 1,037 double
track)
narrow gauge: 445 km 1.000-m gauge; 610 km less than 1.000-m gauge
(1985)

Highways:
total: 177,410 km
paved: 94,027 km
unpaved: 83,383 km (1991 est.)

Pipelines: crude oil 250 km; petroleum products 885 km; natural gas
4,044 km (1987)

Ports: Gwadar, Karachi, Ormaro (under construction), Port Muhammad bin
Qasim

Merchant marine:
total: 30 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 352,189 GRT/532,782 DWT
ships by type: bulk 1, cargo 25, oil tanker 1, passenger-cargo 3

Airports:
total: 119
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 12
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 21
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 33
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 14
with paved runways under 914 m: 24
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 7
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 8

@Pakistan:Communications

Telephone system: NA telephones; about 7 telephones/1,000 persons; the
domestic telephone system is poor, adequate only for government and
business use; the system for international traffic is better
local: NA
intercity: microwave radio relay
international: 3 INTELSAT (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean) earth
stations; microwave radio relay

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 19, FM 8, shortwave