A seven member Indian delegation led by Pradeep Baijal, special secretary in power ministry, held a day long deliberations with their Pakistani counterparts and discussed possibilities of exporting power to India, Pakistani power ministry sources said.

Today's discussion mainly assessed the available infrastructure for power transmission on both sides of the border and ways to improve it to enable smooth transfer. The two sides are exploring the possibilities of transferring power into Indian state of the Punjab.

Pakistan has nearly 3000 mw of surplus power and it was looking for prospective buyers.

The current negotiations is being held as a follow up to an agreement in principle between the prime ministers of two countries on the issue. The Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had madea proposal to his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, during their first meeting in Colombo in July end for purchasing power from Pakistan which was followed up at their second meeting in New York in September, the sources said.

They said, the indian delegation is also scheduled to call on pakistani power minister gohar ayub kham tomorrow.

Indian power minister p r kumaramangalam had earlier said, the surplus electricity taken from pakistan could be used to feed the power deficit regions of punjab, rajasthan and haryana.