{"id":62402,"date":"2025-01-14T10:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T05:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=62402"},"modified":"2025-01-14T11:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T06:32:07","slug":"massive-gold-reserves-worth-rs800-billion-discovered-in-attock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/massive-gold-reserves-worth-rs800-billion-discovered-in-attock\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive gold reserves worth Rs800 billion discovered in Attock?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-area\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/585224-massive-rs800bn-gold-deposit-discovered-in-attock\">\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Former Punjab minister for Mines and Minerals Ibrahim Hassan Murad has claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/saudi-arabia-decides-to-invest-in-reko-diq-project-of-balochistan\/\">Rs800 billion worth of gold<\/a> has been discovered in Punjab&#8217;s Attock district.<\/p>\n<p>Murad, citing the Geological Survey of Pakistan, said that the massive 2.8 million tolas of gold has been confirmed through extensive research and is spread across a 32-kilometer stretch in Attock.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This revelation, validated by the Geological Survey of Pakistan, highlights the immense potential of Punjab&#8217;s natural resources,&#8221; the ex-minister said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-area\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/585224-massive-rs800bn-gold-deposit-discovered-in-attock\">\n<p>The former Punjab Minister\u00a0revealed that the Geological Survey of Pakistan conducted thorough sampling from 127 sites.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Following the claims from the former minister, the incumbent provincial Minister of Mines and Minerals Sardar Sher Ali Gorchani also confirmed the discovery of a massive gold deposit.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that the government has been working on assessing the values of gold reserves discovered by the Geological Survey of Pakistan, which according to him is worth Rs600-700 billion in the world market.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the Punjab government had imposed Section 144 to prevent people from stealing gold from the mines.<\/p>\n<p>He further said that the govt has also planned an auction in a month and rules in this regard have been framed, which require cabinet approval.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An auction committee has been formed under the chairmanship of the Attock deputy commissioner,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Former Punjab minister for Mines and Minerals Ibrahim Hassan Murad has claimed that Rs800 billion worth of gold has been discovered in Punjab&#8217;s Attock district. Murad, citing the Geological Survey of Pakistan, said that the massive 2.8 million tolas of gold has been confirmed through extensive research and is spread across a 32-kilometer stretch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":62406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25742,25743],"class_list":["post-62402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-gold-deposits","tag-rs800-billion-gold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62413,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62402\/revisions\/62413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}