Former senior banker and Chairman of Highnoon Group of Companies Jawaid Tariq Khan has offered to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani free solar- based electrification of a village of the latter's choice. According to a press release here, details are being worked out between the Prime Minister's Secretariat and Highnoon Solar. Khan said that the easiest and fastest way to overcome energy shortage was through electrification, based on solar energy. In addition to electrification of villages, single homes, water heaters, tube wells, street, traffic and parking lights could be converted into solar energy, he added. Many developed countries, including the US, Spain, Germany and even Abu Dhabi were building entire cities energised on solar simply because it is the cheapest source of energy in the long run. Khan said small generation systems could be arranged within six months and so as many as many thousands of systems in the same period of time. Khan stressed the need for encouraging the public-private partnership in this cheapest and everlasting source of energy. -PR