GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF

PAKISTAN
(GSP)
http://www.gsp.gov.pk/

INTRODUCTION
1. Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) is an attached department of the Federal
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources with its headquarters office located at
Quetta and as per its charter the GSP is responsible for study of geology of the country
in all pertinent details and to assess its geological resource potential. With a balanced,
efficient and competitive structure, GSP is now fully capable to explore mineral
resources and undertake geological, geophysical, geo-technical and geo-chemical
investigations, and drilling. During the recent past GSPs technical services were
frequently availed by the local and foreign companies, institutions and private sector
organizations. The GSP also undertakes development projects to cater to immediate
needs in the fields of geological mapping and mineral exploration. It undertakes:

Geological mapping and other geoscientific surveys,

Basic and applied research in earth sciences,
Scientific investigations for an accurate understanding of the countrys geological
resources and their prudent management, and
Environmental geology and hydrogeological studies.
INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE

2. The GSP was established in 1947 with the creation of Pakistan. The department is
headed by the Director General. The technical and other activities of the department are
planned and controlled by the Management Advisory Committee (MAC) with all
Deputy Director General and equivalent officer as its member under the Chairmanship
of the Director General. Region and category wise distribution of the manpower
available in the department are given below:
REGION-WISE DISTRIBUTION OF GAZETTED AND NON-GAZETTED STAFF
OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF PAKISTAN
S. No.

Name of Office

Gazetted Staff

Non-Gazetted
Staff

Total

126

386

512

50

113

163

41

99

140

22

57

79

18

56

74

13

17

19

22

264

743

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1. GSPs Headquarter office, Quetta.

2. GSPs Regional office, Lahore.
3. GSPs Regional office, Karachi.
4. GSPs Regional office, Islamabad.
5. GSPs Regional office, Peshawar.
6. GSPs Regional office, AJK.
7. GSPs Advance Geoscience
Research Lab, Islamabad.
Total

CATEGORY-WISE DISTRIBUTION OF GAZETTED AND NON-GAZETTED

STAFF OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF PAKISTAN
S. No.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Category
Geologists
Geophysicists
Chemists
Drilling Engineers etc
Photogrammetrists
Other technical
Administration & Accounts
Technical Staff
Ministerial Staff
BPS 1-2 staff
Total

Number
146
18
21
25
7
18
29
280
155
308
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BUDGET AND FINACNCE

3. The GSP gets its annual budgetary allocation in the federal budget every year and
some allocation is also made for the department in the federal PSDP for undertaking its
Development Projects. The budget figures for the last five years are given below:

GSPS BUDGET FOR LAST FIVE YEARS

Year
Current
Budget
Development
Budget

2008-2009
214.332

2009-2010
247.432

2010-2011
268.835

2011-2012
282.250

2012-2013
306.867

112.584

370.886

557.458

86.221

67.186

TOTAL

326.916

618.318

826.293

368.471

374.053

ACTIVITIES, ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PROGRESS 2011-2012

4.
Major accomplishments of the department during the fiscal year 2011-2012 are
described below:
REGIONAL GEOLOGICAL MAPPING
5.
The regional geological mapping of total area of 3,840 sq. km on 1:50,000 scale
was completed in different parts of the country. The geological mapping included the
coverage of 1,280 sq. km. area in Sindh, 640 sq. km in Punjab and 1,920 sq. km. area in
Balochistan.
PALEONTOLOGIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC STUDIES
6.
Completed the following projects under the Paleontology and Stratigraphy branch,
GSP headquarter, Quetta.


Paleontological Investigation of the Paleocene and Eocene Formations in the

western Lakhi Range of Sindh Province.

REGIONAL GEOPHYSICAL MAPPING AND SURVEY

7.
During this period investigations were carried out for the following Geophysical
Mapping and Exploration projects:

Ground magnetic and Regional Gravity surveys at Kuli Koh, Dalbandin for iron ore
exploration for Pakistan Steel.

Semi Regional Gravity and Magnetic Survey in Jaranwala Faisalabad area, Punjab.
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY
8.
During this period investigations were carried out for the following Economic
Geology projects:

Thar Underground Coal Gasification project
The GSP had discovered over 175 billion tons of lignite coal in Thar desert in
1992. The development of Thar coal reserves has been included in the priority list of
projects which are likely to be launched during the current financial year. In this
connection the Geological Survey of Pakistan has successfully completed drilling of 14
bore holes for the project Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) at Thar Sindh.

Iron Ore Exploration for Pakistan Steel
Large scale geological and topographic mapping for iron ore exploration in Kuli
Koh, Dalbandin, Balochistan on the request of Pakistan Steel.

9.

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS:

During this period investigations were carried out under the following International
Collaborative projects:

10.

Reconnaissance Survey of Geo-hazards and their Preventions and management in

Earthquake hit areas (Neelum and Kaghan Valley, North Pakistan) with the Federal
Institute of Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hanover (BGR).
RESEARCH PROJECTS:

During this period field and laboratory studies were completed on the following
Research projects:

Mineralogy and Genesis of Havelian iron ore prospect, District Abbotabad.

11.

DRILLING OPERATIONS

The Geological Survey of Pakistan undertakes drilling under various programmes for
energy (coal) and mineral exploration. During this period GSP undertook drilling operations
under its different development projects, especially for underground coal gasification at Thar,
Sindh.
12.

CHEMICAL LABORATORY WORK

Analyzed 430 samples for 3440 estimations in GSP labs at Quetta, Lahore and
Karachi. Sample preparation section at Geoscience lab, Islamabad prepared 224 powdered
samples, 10 thin and 15 polished sections and its chemical section analyzed 580 samples
for 4640 estimations by XRF, AAS and wet analysis and analysed 215 samples by XRF,
XRD and AAS.

13.

SEMINARS/SYMPOSIA/LECTURES/ WORKSHOPS

i.

Pinstech Seminar

Syed Ishtiaq Khan and Asif Hanif, Chemists, Geolab Islamabad participated in the
National Executive Management Seminar on Optimizing the exploration and exploitation
of Natural resources using nuclear techniques. The seminar was organized by the Pakistan
Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology (PINSTECH) on 28-29 December, 2011.
ii.

International Conference EARTH SCIENCES PAKISTAN 2012

Earth
Sciences
Pakistan
conference circulars and Newspaper
clipping will provide material for
news to go with these pics. The
National Centre of Excellence in
Geology (NCEG) and Department of
Geology, University of Peshawar,
jointly organized EARTH SCIENCES
PAKISTAN (ESP) 2012 at bara Gali
Summer campus on 23-24 June, 2012.
The ESP (2012) provided a platform
to bring together earth scientists
engaged in basic and applied research
in different areas of earth sciences.
Besides, traditional conference themes, this conference offered sponsored sessions to
government and non-government organizations who wanted to showcase their research and
professional activities in front of the community.
The themes of the conference included Himalayan Tectonics; Economic Mineral
Deposits; Depositional Systems & Petroleum Exploration; Environmental Geosciences;
Natural Hazards; Risk Assessment, Disaster Management and Mitigation; and Water
Resources. A release of the NCEG said here on Friday. Abstracts for presentations
submitted have been published as abstract volume of the Earth Sciences Pakistan (ESP)-

2010 in the Journal of the Himalayan Earth Sciences (NCEG, University of

Peshawar). From the ESP-2010 the organizers hoped to generate a wealth of information
and promote research and mutual interaction across a wide spectrum of organizations.
The energy crises, natural hazards, worsening economic situation, environmental
degradation, population growth explosion, fast-depleting water resources and droughts in
Pakistan have made the earth scientists more so important.Earth Science activities are wide
spread across a multitude of organizations. Conferences provide the best platform for
exchange of ideas, mutual interactions, research discussions, spread of technical knowledge
and information about new developments. In such times their expertise, knowledge,
technical know-how and in-depth analysis and understanding will directly contribute to the
nations betterment.
M/s Dr. Rehanul Haq Siddiqui, Asif Nazeer Rana, Nazarul Islam, Sadiq Malkani,
Waliullah, M. Ashraf and M. Khalid represented GSP in this conference.-14. GENERAL
i.

Avalanche Hazards Mapping at Gyari, Siachin Glacier

On the request of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), the Director

General, Geological Survey of Pakistan assigned a team of GSP geoscientists to visit the
Gyari Sector of Siachin, where
an avalanche had taken 137
precious lives of the troops of
Pakistan Army and some
civilians between the night of
6th and 7th April 2012. The
purpose of the trip was to
conduct a Geohazard study and
to evaluate the risk posed by the
water ponding in consequence of
blockade of the stream due to
rock/snow
avalanche.
Geoscientists including Ch.
Muhammad
Latif,
Deputy
Director, Sardar Saeed Akhtar,
Assistant Director, Simon Sadiq,
Assistant Director, Nakeer Shah,
Assistant Director reached Goma, the base camp of Siachin Brigade on the 19th May 2012.
During the visit geoscientists had close contact with the Pakistan Military Officers
involved in the rescue operation and gave them technical advices. The team also visited Bn
HQ of a unit located at Gyong Sector, and studied the risk posed by the debris flow to the
settlement and installations of the unit. The findings of the study were shared with the
officer incharge of Pakistan Army.
After completing these tasks the team reached Gilgit on 24th May, 2012 under the
instructions of Director General GSP to conduct a Geohazard Assessment Survey in the
areas suggest/proposed by the Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan through NDMA. After the
survey, technical advice was shared with the responsible officials there while a detailed
report is under preparation, which will be submitted to the authorities in due course of time.

ii.

Dr. Samar Mubarakmand Visits GSP HQ Office Quetta and Geoscience Labs,
Islamabad

Dr.
Samar
Mubarakmand,
Member,
Science
&
Technology,
Planning Commission visited
GSPs Head Quarter Office,
Quetta on February 24, 2011
and
Geoscience
Lab.,
Islamabad on January 24, 2012.
Dr. Imran Khan, Director
General, Geological Survey of
Pakistan gave a detailed
briefing to the honourable guest
on the functions of GSP and the
position of coal resources in the
country, in particular, Thar coal
and its usage as alternate
energy in the wake of serious
electricity shortage, leading to unscheduled load shedding all over the country and shortage
of gas, both affecting the economy of the country and depriving 180 million people of basic
necessities. Dr. Samar Mubarakmand, Member Science & Technology, Planning
Commission also gave a briefing to the Standing Committee on Petroleum & Natural
Resurces on 6th September, 2011. Dr. Samar Mubarakmand. Dr. Imran Khan, Director
General, Geological Survey of Pakistan attended this briefing with secretaries of Petroleum
Ministry and provincial Mines & Minerals Departments.

Earlier, Dr. Imran Khan, Director General, Geological Survey of Pakistan had given
a detailed briefing to the members of Standing Committee of the National Assembly on
th

18 July, 2011, at Islamabad. Speaking at these occasions, Dr. Imran Khan, Director
General GSP informed the distinguished guests that with the success of Underground Coal
Gasification (UCG) pilot project, it could be taken up in nine other areas of the country.
The GSP had drilled 270 holes and carried out extensive exploratory drilling for more than
51,000 meters to generate dependable technical data to utilize. Coal is the cheapest and the
most common fuel used directly or indirectly to produce electricity and heat in the world
today. The development of Thar coal reserves has been included in the priority list of
projects which are likely to be launched during the current financial year. President Asif
Ali Zardari has underlined the need for expediting Thar Coal Gasification by removing the
bottlenecks and holding regular review of the progress.
Global coal consumption was about 6.7 billion tons in 2006 and is expected to increase
48% to 9.98 billion tons by 2030. China produces 2.38 billion tons coal. India produces
about 447.3 million tons and Pakistan mines only about 8 million tons annually. About
68% of China's electricity comes from coal. The United States consumes about 14% of the
world total, using 90% of it for generation of electricity.

The coal and various projects are expected to be online in the next 2
to 5 years. If these projects do succeed and Chinese investors are attracted to the
power sector, then Pakistan has the potential to produce about 100,000 MW a year
for a century or longer. The first test burn at underground coal gasification (UCG)
project has been carried out successfully.

The NA Standing Committee was also informed that Block -1 has been
allocated to the Chinese Global Mining (CGM) company which plans to mine five
million tons of coal a year to produce 900 MW of electricity, to be gradually
increased to 2100 MW. Australian Continental energy had submitted a proposal for
mining six million tons of coal annually, increasing it to 18 million tons to generate
1,100 MW in 5 years and 2,000 to 3,000 MW in 10-15 years.

iii.

GSP-BGR Project on Geohazard Assessment in Northern Pakistan

A GSP BGR
joint workshop
on Geohazard
Assessment in
Northern
Pakistan was
held
at
Islamabad on
23rd January,
2012 for the
scope
of
second phase
preparation to
institutionalize
geohazard
information
and
harmonizing
effects. The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany
Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR) and GSP are
collaborating with each other in Geohazard Assessment Project in Mansehra,
Pakistan from the last two years. A Project Progress Review (PPR) delegation who
participated in this workshop included Dr. Arne Hoffmann-Rothe, Head of Unit,
International Cooperation - Asia and Oceania; Dr. Dirk Balzer, Head of Unit
"Engineering Geological Hazard Assessment ; Thomas Rehmann, International
Cooperation, Project Coordinator Pakistan and Indonesia; and Ms. Ria Hidajat,
Freelance Consultant, International Cooperation, Disaster Risk Management and
Climate Change Adaptation, GeoRisk, Germany.

Ms. Annette Lisy, BGR Project Manager for Pakistan, Geohazard

Assessment in Northern Pakistan accompanying the appraisal mission briefed the
audience about joint coordination efforts concerning landslide hazard mitigation in
Mansehra district under this project. She showed the august gathering the landslide
inventory and susceptibility maps prepared in the first phase of the selected project
pilot areas on 1:50, 000 scale.
Dr. Imran Khan, Director General GSP, presiding the technical session
welcomed the distinguished guests and appreciated the team efforts of joint venture
of GSP and BGR. He called for effective coordination among different bodies
working in the field and stake holders and checks on duplication of responsibilities.
He told the audience that a standardized data collection during all field activities of
GSP was initiated with introducing the landslide inventory database and
incorporated into world class map. He emphasized that the comprehensive risk
exposure analysis to natural hazards relies on the availability of statistical data on a
standard format. The approach guarantees the structured capture of the available
baseline, hazard and vulnerability information relevant in the future risk mapping
activities. This will support the data management in the second phase of the project
and in the long term as a whole.
Ms. Ria Hidajat, BGR consultant told that the Project Progress Review (PPR)
has been established for steering and planning technical cooperation development
measures and is a binding element of all German Development cooperation
measures, and it serves to steer and prepare the next phase of the project. The PPR
findings are to be used jointly with the partners and contribute to planning the
continuation of the development measure.
Highlighting the issue of capacity building and training, the DCO Mansehra
Mr. Amber stressed the need to set up disaster response system at the grass root
level. He proposed growing forest cover for slope stability and to reduce the flow of
floodwater and construction of channels for drainage of overflowing water along the
embankments. Mr. Muhammed Rafiq Jaffer moderating the panel discussion,
constituted three working groups to identify the objectives for the second phase of
the project. The working groups formulated their recommendations and the
consensus was reached to strengthen the role of GSP by capacity building and
feeding DRM related products of GSP to a broader stakeholder community in order
to achieve an improved recognition of geohazards in development planning.
The panel discussion concluded with closing remarks by Dr. Arne HoffmannRothe, BGR who said that feedback of lessons learned and best possible practices
from the pilot examples to relevant authorities on the various administrative levels
like NDMA, PDMA and DDMA. The BGR delegation also visited Geoscience Lab,
GSP on 16th January, 2012. Mr. Adnan Alam Awan, Project Manager GSP
informed that BGR will prepare an offer for the second phase of the project to the
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation & Development. Following the
approval of the suggested project and administrative procedures in Pakistan, a
project implementation agreement between the GSP and BGR will be signed.

iv.

UG/GARL Project

Geological Survey of Pakistans

development project Upgradation and
Strengthening
of
Geoscience
Laboratories has been extended for
another one year from July 01, 2011 to
June 30, 2012. The Geosciences
Advance
Research
Labs
was
established in 1991 as a grant in aid
project by the Government of Japan,
implemented through JICA. With its
modern state of the art analytical
facilities for advance research in all
fields of earth sciences, the Geolabs is
playing a pivotal role in the qualitative
improvement of broad spectrum of
technical activities and scientific
studies. The project was approved in
2005 for a period of five years at a total cost of Rs. 249.87 million.
Under this project, spare parts of ICP-MS, XRF, XRD, muffle furnaces, Nebulizer for
AAS and Scanning Electron Microscope were purchased. The project activities were severely
hampered due to late and less release of funds. The PSDP in respect of UG/GARL project
during current financial year received budget release of Rs. 21,990 million against the
allocation of Rs.49,966 million. Due to delay in transfer of funds to Pak PWD authorities, the
near completion buildings of Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC) and Trainee
Officers Hostel are not yet handed over to GSP. Similarly, due to ban on purchase of physical
assets, furniture & fixture could not be arrangedand an amount of Rs. 2, 200 million had to be
surrended unutilized. However, the HRDC has already successfully organized 27 technical
trainings/workshops so far in the fields of Ore Microscopy, gem testing, geochem and
geological studies.
The upgraded Geolab is now providing back up analytical services in mineral
exploration activities not only of the GSP but public & private mineral sector and universities
too. After handing over the HRDC building to GSP, the earth scientists will benefit from the
state-of-the-art research facilities in the fields of sophisticated instrumental analysis and
training facilities will also be extended to neighboring countries, SAARC, OIC, ECO and
national/intl universities.

v.

Geophysical Survey for Benazir Airport Islamabad

On the request of Monitoring Wing, Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan,

the Director General, GSP deputed a team from HQs office Quetta to conduct geophysical
survey at Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Airport, being built near Fateh Jang, Islamabad. The
Ground Penetrating Radar Survey was carried out by M/s S. Ali Abbas and Muhammed
Saeed, Geophysicsts to monitor the quality of compaction and construction for the runway
apron of Islamabad new airport in the first week of June, 2011.

vi.

Expert Group Meeting on Landslide Terminology Classification

Documentation & Hazard Mapping

The Director General, GSP attended

the Expert Group Meeting on Landslide
Terminology
Classification
Documentation & Hazard Mapping at
Hyderabad, India from 16 to 17
November, 2011. The meeting was
arranged and sponsored by SAARC.
The Director General, GSP,
presented in the meeting the expertise
developed by the GSP especially under
the GSP-BGR collaborative project.
Through this project a number of hazard
zonation maps covering northern areas
and Azad Jammu and Kashmir have
been prepared and a number of GSPs geoscientists have been given domestic and foreign
trainings.

vii.

UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management

(GGIM )
The Director General, GSP
attended the UN Committee of
Experts on Global
Geospatial
Information Management (GGIM )
from 24 to 26 October, 2011 at Seoul,
Republic of Korea.

The DG, GSP gave the

overview of the GIS related
activities in the country and gave
his suggestion for capacity building
of the department and long and
short term training needs of its
geoscientists.

viii.

International Workshop on Seismicity and Earthquake Engineering in South

Asia Region.

A 5 days International Workshop on Seism-city and Earthquake Engineering in South

Asia Region was organized by UNESCO at Tehran, Iran from 16 to 20 May, 2010. The Director
General, GSP actively participated in the meeting.

He briefed the participants of the

meeting about the expertise developed by
the GSP by producing a large number of
hazard zonation maps covering northern
areas and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. In
response to call from Earthquake
Reconstruction
and
Rehabilitation
Authority (ERRA), National Disaster
Management Authority (NDMA), the GSP
has successfully completed a number o
projects in the 2005 earthquake affected
areas, he added.

ix.

Inaugural meetings of Pak- China Joint Energy working group at Beijing, China

Under the directives of the

Ministry of
Petroleum and Natural
Resources, the Director General, GSP,
participated in the inaugural meetings of
Pak- China Joint Energy working group
accompanied with Minister Water and
Power at Beijing, China from 01 to 05
August, 2011. The meeting was called and
managed by the Chinese Govt.

x.

1st Workshop of the IGCP 600 followed by the Scotts Workshop at Beijing, China

The DG, GSP attended the 1st Workshop of the IGCP 600 followed by the Scotts workshop
at Beijing, China from 29 Oct to 05 Nov, 2011 organized by UNESCO/ Chinese Academy of
Geological Sciences.

15.

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

i. Training Workshop on Ore Microscopy

As a part of its
academic support and
technology
transfer
program, the Geoscience
Laboratories,
GSP
Islamabad organized a
five
day
training
workshop
on
Ore
Microscopy under Upgradation
and
Strengthening
of
Geoscience Advanced
Research Laboratories.
The objective of this
training workshop was
to learn various techniques of ore microscopy by providing some basic theoretical as well
as practical knowledge on ore microscopy, so that the participants could be able to identify
the most common ore minerals to study their texture and paragenesis. The workshop was
conducted by Dr. Rehanul Haq Siddiqui, Mr Asif Nazeer Rana and Ms. Naghma Haider.
The main topics of lectures and hands-on practical included in this course were: preparation
of polished ore sections, principle and construction of reflected-light polarizing
microscope, optical properties of ore minerals, common ore textures and their significance,
and ore paragenetic studies. The following organizations nominated their technical officers
to participate in this workshop: Azad Jammu & Kashmir University, Muzaffarabad;
Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Saindak Metals Ltd, Quetta;
NUST Islamabad and Uthal University of Water, Agriculture and Marine Sciences,
Lasbela. Four officers from various GSP regional offices also participated in this
workshop.
ii.

Dutch Training
M/s Naveed Munnawar,
Sajjad Khan, Ishtiaq Khan
and Asif Hanif were
nominated from Geolabs
Islamabad to participate in a
5 day XRD and XRF Basic
Application
course
in
November and December
respectively
in
the
Netherlands.
M/s
PANAlytical B.V.,
who
had
supplied
these
equipments to Geolabs has
sponsored this training
facility, travel expenses and
boarding & lodging. The

training course on XRD was held at Application Competence Centre, Almelo, the
Netherland from 31st Oct to 4th November, 2011. The training course on XRF was held
at Application Competence Centre, Almelo, the Netherlands from 5th December to 9th
December, 2011.
iii.

SEM Training in Japan

Dr. Rehan-ul Haq Siddiqui
and Ms. Naghma Haider
attended an instrument training
on JEOL SEM at Tokyo, Japan
from July 09 to 22, 2011. The
GSPs Geolabs had recently
purchased
JEOL
Scanning
Electron Microscope JSM6610LV. M/S JEOL Ltd Japan
offered this training facility at its
Tachikawa manufacturing plant.
M/S
Analytical
Measuring
Systems Pvt. Ltd, JEOL sole
distributor in Pakistan arranged
the air ticket, lodging, boarding
and tuition fee for this training
program.

iv.

GIS Training Program at GSP-H8 office Islamabad from 1-11 March, 2011
Organized under the GSP-BGR Technical Cooperation Project- Geohazard
Assessment in Northern Pakistan (GANP)

Eleven days GIS

training organized at
GSP regional office
Islamabad
was
imparted to fifteen
selected
Assistant
Directors from GSP
Peshawar, Lahore,
Karachi,
AJ&K,
Geoscience Lab and
Quetta offices. The
GIS training was
delivered
using
ESRI,
ArcGIS
softwares.
The
training
was
designed with the purpose to make participants proficient to develop geospatially

referenced maps and being able to install and introduce intelligent mapping with ArcGIS in
their respective environment and to adopt it for their regular GSP projects.
Dr. Zafar Qadir, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and N.R. was the Chief Guest
at the certificate distribution ceremony held on 11th March and highly appreciated the
efforts of the participants and organizers. Mrs. Annette Lisy, Project Manager of BGR said
in her remarks that this training is considered as an important step for the capacity building
of GSP. Dr. Imran Khan DG, GSP in his remarks said that GIS has been introduced and
applied in almost all the disciplines of GSP and it is his top priority to train GSP officers in
the field of GIS that is need of the era as well.
v.

8th International Training Course on GIS for Disaster Risk Management, 7

18 May 2012, Bangkok Thailand

On the advice of Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR),
Germany, three Assistant Directors Adnan Alam Awan, Sajjad Karamat Wahla and Asif
Razzaq from GSP Islamabad office participated in 8th International Training Course on
GIS for Disaster Risk Mangement (GIS4DRM-8), from 7- 18 May 2012 organized at
Bangkok Thailand supported by GSP-BGR project. The training course was organized by
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) in coordination with the Asian Institute of
Technology (AIT), the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the
University of Twente, the Netherlands (ITC), and United Nations Institute for Training and
Researchs Operational Satellite Applications Program (UNITAR-UNOSAT).
The training course was extended over 10 workdays structured around the following
modules. 1: Core/Basic Information, 2: Post-Disaster Impact and Damage Analysis, 3: PreDisaster Risk Assessment, 4: Risk Information for Risk Reduction Planning and 5: MiniProjects.
Pakistan current scenario on Disaster Risk Management was presented in detail to
the participants, particularly destruction and losses due to floods, earthquake and landslides
in different areas of Pakistan and future potential threats regarding these hazards in
different zones of Pakistan were discussed. The role of Geological Survey of Pakistan
during both pre and post disaster was presented and different geohazards maps prepared by
GSP were a topic of keen interest at the forum.
vi.

Training Workshop on Awareness and Assessment of Tsunami Hazards,

Banda Aceh (Indonesia), 10 - 20 July 2011 (organized by IOC-UNESCO)

Two GSP officers Mr. Simon Sadiq, Assistant Director, GSP, Islamabad and Miss
Yasmeen Raza, Assistant Director, GSP, Karachi participated in the field workshop on
Awareness and Assessment of Tsunami Hazards in Banda Aceh, Indonesia from July 1020, 2011. The workshop involved five international experts and 15 participants, 10 from
Pakistan and 5 from Banda Aceh, Indonesia. The implementation of this training workshop
was conducted by IOC-UNESCO in partnership with:
1.
2.
3.

Tsunami Disaster and Mitigation Research Centre

Syiah Kuala Uiversity, Banda Aceh
Indonesian Institute of Sciences

4.
5.

Geological Survey of Pakistan

Pakistan Meteorological Department

Participants worked with international experts on the well-established tsunami

deposits in the region, with a view to apply this knowledge in Pakistan. They were able
to explore the potential for future events, and showcase some best practices in
awareness and education which have been applied in other countries, particularly
Indonesia. At the end of the field session, they participated in the Regional Workshop
on Tsunami Awareness, held in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mr. Simon Sadiq shared the field
experience in Aceh with the participants of the Regional Workshop in Jakarta.
vii.

Training on New Geophysical Equipment

Oriental Engineers
Lahore
arranged training course in June
2012,
Syed
Ali
Abbas
(Geophysicist), Mr. Muhammad
Saeed
(Geophysicist),
Mr.
Muhammad
Atif
(Assistant
Geophysicist) and Mr. Sohail Anwar
(Assistant
Geophysicist)
were
assigned for training at Lahore of
Geophysical
equipments
GEOPHYSICAL LOGGER and
Time
Domain
Electromagnetic
(TDEM).
The duration of the training was one week; and covered the followings:Instrument testing/commissioning on field sites.
A brief of the relavent softwares including Data dumping, processing and
interpretation
The training sessions were comprehensive and covered all the aspects of instrument
functunality. The above mentioned instruments were fully tested and operated by all the
participants

16.

LATEST PUBLICATIONS OF GSP

Integrated Geophysical Studies for Lava Effusion at Ziarat

The doublet earthquakes of 6.4M of Oct 29th 2008 at Khanozai (Pishin) and
Gogai (Ziarat) encompassed Wam, Kawas, Varchoom, Kan, Zandra
and
surrounding areas. The event of January 27th 2010 with epicenter south of Kalat
accompanied by formation of an effusive vent of molten basaltic rock ooze in Tor
Zawar mountain Sari, Ziarat is a sinister omen of ongoing seismic activity in the
Quetta Transverse zone. A unique activity probably enacted by nature after a span
of many millennia in this area provided a surface thumb print warranting massive
research and follow up exploratory work in continuity to allay the apprehensions,
concern and fear for the safety and security of the people is very well justified. In

order to serve the cause of national importance and the doctrine of geological
necessity test /research oriented
geological and geophysical survey was
accordingly planned employing Magnetic, Electrical Resistivity soundings /
profiling, Ground penetration Radar survey for the collection of baseline data
leading to the assessment of the sub surface geological conditions at the vent
effusive site. The geologic unique event necessitating investigations, the Geological
Survey of Pakistan executed preliminary geological investigations carried out by
M/S Asif Nazeer Rana and Sardar Saeed Akhtar in February 2010, with follow up
integrated geophysical surveys in April, 2010 by M/S Muhammed Saeed, Mehtab-uRehman and S. Ali Abbas to map detect and delineate the resultant changes in the
lithological and structural disposition of the sub surface rocks arising out due to the
sloshing of the molten material through the effusive vent.
The seismic hiccup of basaltic ooze at Tor Zawar Mountain is a telltale of the
internal furnace corroding the mountain from inside and who knows the dimensions
of the vertical gash (volcanic vent/conduit) how deep its running and how big it is.
The effusion of pulverized rock and glass is definitely a sinister portent of
something on brew deep down under. Seismically active areas lie atop clashing/
riding tectonic plates where ruptures miles below create chambers into which
molten rocks rises and pools and subsequently climbs up to erupt or diffuse through
weak zones in the earths crust as vents. This apparently appears to be and have
taken place in Ziarat. It is reckoned that intense and major rock deformation of
sizeable dimension in the Sari area has taken place. The earthquake stage-II event
shows rock dilatancy and development of cracks, stage-III influx of water and
unstable deformation in fault zone (change in water volume and groundwater table),
stage-IV the main event (earthquake) than stage V sudden drop in stress. This stage
of post main event is characterized by the aftershocks with varying focal depths and
decreasing magnitude showing migration of foci along the fault zone whether
exposed or concealed. This is clearly evident from the epicentral traces of the
earthquake aftershocks of the October 29th Gogai Ziarat apparently correlating
with north-north west south east trending sub surface fault zone along a massive
rupture plane which form the main contributory source of the seismic events. The
geological map of the study area characterizes the presence of older volcanic rocks
which are remnants of past volcanic episodes. The eruptive activity appears as an
interactive play and involvement of the older volcanics re-melting and fusion with
the present day ascending hydro thermal solution/magma from depth and dual
tectonic-magmatism generating the eruptive activity. The effusion of molten lava in
Ziarat is a manifestation and substantiation of the earlier findings by the GSP earth
scientists. It is reckoned that the study area is prone to major seismic hazard from
regional tectonics as well as hybrid events of seismo/volcano tectonic origin.
GSP research has indicated the presence of highly magnetic dual lobe
sources, resistive and prominent reflectors from the radio echo soundings in and
around the vent site. The resistivity pseudo sections delineate the lateral and vertical
molten flows which have apparently solidified at shallow depth. The GPR mapping
due to ideal surface conditions have optimum penetration with high definition
reflector topography, internal scatterers and hyperbolas. The Radar imaging

explicitly shows folding of the overlying fine grained clastics whereas fracturing in
the compact , hard and brittle rock units of compact gravels/limestone and volcanics
due to the pressure exerted by the intrusion. The status of whether the activity is in
continuation, simmered down, acquired quiescence can only be known by post
monitoring of micro-seismic activity and parameters.
17.

DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS EXECUTED BY GSP (2011-2012)

i.

Accelerated Geological Mapping & Geochemical Exploration of the outcrop area of Pakistan.

ii.

Regional geological mapping of 1200 sq.km area on 1:50,000 scale with the
help of imageries and aerial photographs is in progress (Geological parties are
in the field.)
20 Geological sections will be measured during this Geological mapping and
3,000 Sample will be collected for laboratory studies.
Compiled /digitized 32 geological maps.
Analyses of already collected samples is in progress in various laboratories
of the GSP.

Up-gradation/Strengthening of Geoscience Advance Research Laboratories,

Geological Survey of Pakistan

Construction of building for Human Resource Development centre and

hostel is 98% complete.
Purchase and installation of equipment by experts has been completed.
Procurement of Furniture and Fixture is in Progress.
Training of GeoLab & GSP scientists on newly installed equipment and
related subjects has been arranged and completed.
2 Advanced Training Courses in various disciplines of Geology by
National / International Experts arranged.

18.

PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITES AND TARGETS 2012-2013

A.

REGULAR ACTIVITIES
(a)

During the year 2012-13 an area of about 3,900 sq. km is planned to be

mapped in different parts of the country.

(b)

About 300 samples will be collected and analysed under geochemical

surveying.

(c)

Efforts will be concentrated on exploration and evaluation of coalfields in

Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan. These studies are aimed at enhancing the

coal resource base and supplementing power generation and substituting

furnace oil in different industrial units in the country.

B.

C.

(d)

Porphyry copper, lead-zinc sulphide mineralization and iron ore occurrences

in Chagai and Lasbela-Khuzdar districts in Balochistan will be further
explored.

(e)

A total of 2 bore holes are tentatively planned to be drilled for a cumulative

depth of 500 meters under different development projects during the year.

ON-GOING DEVELOPMENT UNDER FEDERAL PSDP

Accelerated Geological Mapping and Geochemical Exploration of the outcrop area of Pakistan.

Up gradation/ Strengthening of Geosciences

Laboratories, Geological Survey of Pakistan.

Advance

NEW APPROVED PROJECTS UNDER FEDERAL PSDP

Appraisal of Newly discovered coal resources of Badin coal

field and its adjoining areas of southern Sindh.

Exploration of Tertiary coal in Central Salt Range, Punjab.

Exploration and Evaluation of Coal in Raghni area Tehsil

Shahrig, Balochistan.

Research

BY FAX/TCS/E-MAIL
No. P&I/CDN-1/2007
Government of Pakistan
Geological Survey of Pakistan
Planning and Information Division
******
Quetta, dated July 27, 2012
Mr. Zafar-Ul-Amin,
Deputy Chief (Power),
Government of Pakistan,
Planning Commission,
Planning and Development Division (Energy Wing),
99-West, Shalimar Plaza, Blue Area,
ISLAMABAD.

Subject:

PREPARATION AND CIRCULATION OF YEAR BOOKS IN

PURSUANCE OF RULE 25 OF THE RULES OF BUSINESS 1973.

Kindly refer to your letter No. 19(87) Energy/PC/2012, dated 16th July, 2012 on the
subject cited above and find attached updated information highlighting progress during
2011-2012 and programme 2012-2013 of the Geological Survey of Pakistan for further
necessary action please.

Encl: Subject Report.

(SYED AFZAL AHMAD)

Director (P&I)
Tel: (081) 9211041
Fax: (081) 9211361

C. C.
M. Afzaal Chaudhry, Deputy Secretary (Projects),
Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, Islamabad, with
reference to MP&NR U. O. No. 18(34)S.O/Dev-IV/2012, dated 19-07-2012.

BY FAX/TCS
No. P&I/CDN-1/2007
Government of Pakistan
Geological Survey of Pakistan
Planning and Information Division
******
Quetta, dated July 27, 2012
Mr. Iftikhar Ahmad,
Section Officer (CDN),
Government of Pakistan,
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources,
ISLAMABAD.

Subject:

PREPARATION AND CIRCULATION OF YEAR BOOKS IN

PURSUANCE OF RULE 25 OF THE RULES OF BUSINESS 1973.

Dear Sir,
Kindly refer to your letter No. 3(3)/2012-CDN, dated 13th July, 2012 on the subject
cited above which has been received in this office on 27th July, 2012 and find attached
updated information highlighting progress during 2011-2012 and programme 2012-2013 of
the Geological Survey of Pakistan along with CD for further necessary action please.

The same has already been sent to the Planning Commission, Planning and
Development Division (Energy Wing) vide this office letter of even number dated 27-072012 and a copy endorsed to M. Afzaal Chaudhry, Deputy Secretary (Projects),
Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, Islamabad (copy
enclosed).

Yours Faithfully,

Encl: Subject Report along with CD.

(SYED AFZAL AHMAD)

Director (P&I)
Tel: (081) 9211041
Fax: (081) 9211361