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  • First generation RLNG plants fire up in shadow of second generation circular debt

    ISLAMABAD: A second generation of circular debt in the gas sector has come into being as three key Punjab-based power projects of about 3,600 megawatts on imported Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) are now reaching the belated commercial operation dates (CODs)...

    Informed sources told Dawn the delayed commissioning of these plants had not only compromised full utilisation of LNG terminals but also caused demurrage charges to LNG importers,...

  • KE bosses told to ensure electricity supply or face prison

    KARACHI: Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon has warned the K-Electric management to ensure uninterrupted supply of electricity to the city or else its top bosses will be put behind bars...

    He said Karachi used to be called ‘the city of lights’ but owing to the incompetence as well as mala fide intention of the company the metropolis remained without power supply for long hours daily, making the citizens to face great hardship,...

  • Pakistan to grant UK access to Imran Farooq murder suspects: sources

    ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has agreed to grant British investigation authorities access to the main suspects arrested in Dr Imran Farooq's murder case, DawnNews reported...

    Sources privy to the matter said Federal Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan conveyed Pakistan's approval in this regard on Tuesday in a meeting with United Kingdom’s counter-terrorism department chief Richard Walton...

  • Pakistan to follow guidance on radioactive sources’ transfer: FO

    ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Wednesday said that the global nuclear watchdog — the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) — has been intimated about Pakistan’s intent to subscribe to the Guidance on the Import and Export of Radioactive Sources (GIERS)...

    The GIERS supplements the ‘code of conduct on the safety and security of radioactive sources’ and aims to provide for an adequate transfer of responsibility when a source is...

  • US diplomat who killed biker in road accident allowed to leave Pakistan, sources say

    US defence attaché Col Joseph Emanuel Hall, who was earlier barred from flying out on an American military aircraft by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), was reportedly allowed by the government to leave on Monday, after which the diplomat left for Afghanistan on a special flight, DawnNewsTV reported quoting diplomatic sources...

    The government reportedly took the decision after the US government assured that Col Hall will be...

  • Pakistan submits reply before ICJ in Kulbhushan Jadhav case, sources say

    Pakistan on Tuesday submitted its reply in the ongoing Kulbhushan Jadhav case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), DawnNewsTV quoted diplomatic sources as saying...

    Jadhav, an official of India's spy agency RAW, was arrested in Pakistan on March 3, 2016, during an operation in Balochistan's Mashkel area for his involvement in espionage and sabotage activities against Pakistan...

  • Pakistan's exile is hurting next generation cricketers: Wasim Akram

    Legendary fast-bowler Wasim Akram on Monday said Pakistan cricket team's exile is having a devastating effect on the next generation of players coming through the ranks...

    The former Pakistan captain gave his example of making it to the most competitive level after he was spotted by one of the country's greatest batsman Javed Miandad during a net session in 1984...

  • Pakistan facing revenue generation crisis: report

    ISLAMABAD: Despite recent optimism surrounding Pakistan’s economy, the country is facing an “existential crisis” stemming from its woeful tax collection rates and inability to finance itself, a report said on Wednesday...

    Pakistan’s economy grew at 4...

  • Pakistan faces a stunted generation in 15 years

    ISLAMABAD: Malnutrition in the country will cost the nation heavily when 44 per cent of today’s children of ages up to five grow up as a stunted and unproductive generation in 10 to 15 years...

    “Pakistan is in a state of nutrition emergency as most its nutrition indicators are worse than those in Sub-Saharan Africa,” the official told a seminar organised in connection with the Global Breastfeeding Week, which began over the weekend...

  • Mercurial Pakistan pin World Cup hopes on rising generation

    Pakistan are pinning their hopes for World Cup glory on a crop of youngsters who have the talent to beat anybody but could also pay for their lack of experience...

    The side have only won the showpiece 50-over tournament once — under the captaincy of current Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in 1992...

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