The GHAZI BAROTHA hydropower project is a major run-of-the river environmentally sustainable power project, designed to meet the acute shortage of peak power demand in our country.  The project is based on the utilization of the head available in the INDUS RIVER between TARBELA DAM near GHAZI confluence with the HARO RIVER and the INDUS RIVER near BAROTHA. In this reach the INDUS RIVER drops by about 76m in a distance of 63km.

Location: Around 100km from Islamabad, on the Indus River in Khyber Pk, 7 km downstream from
the Tarbela dam.
Built in: 2003, Power Generation: 1450MW