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ISLAMABAD: The power regulator on Thursday expressed disappointment over the hours-long loadshedding in Karachi, disagreed with K-Electric’s “immature” explanation, and termed it “out of touch” with the worsening groun...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will soon open a competitive electricity market, ending the government’s monopoly as sole power purchaser, Federal Minister for Power Sardar Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari said on Thursday during a high-level mee...
KARACHI: The country’s power generation recorded a 22 per cent year-on-year (YoY) increase in April of the current fiscal year, driven by higher demand following a reduction in electricity tariffs by the government. Electri...
LAHORE: The Oil Marketing Association of Pakistan (OMAP) has expressed serious concerns over what it describes as the “illegitimate and exclusionary conduct” of the Oil Companies Advisory Council (OCAC), calling on the Oil a...
KARACHI: Industrialists in Karachi have termed the government’s decision to fix the electricity tariff at Rs38 per unit as a business-friendly step for industries of different sizes and sectors in the commercial capital of the...
ISLAMABAD: For the first time since July 2024, the state-run power distribution companies have sought Nepra’s permission to recover Rs1.268 per unit from consumers under April 2025 fuel charges adjustment (FCA), ending a nine-...
ISLAMABAD: The management of Sui Southern and SLL (SSGC LPG Limited) landed in trouble for allegedly abusing the exemption from PPRA rule while importing LPG. The Petroleum Division, in line with the letter from FIA, has aske...
ISLAMABAD: The government has assured Pakistan’s leading oil refineries that it will permanently resolve the contentious sales tax exemption on petroleum products in the upcoming federal budget, a move seen as pivotal to unloc...
The poor response to the government’s bid to sell three redundant thermal power plants indicates the investors’ lack of confidence in its privatisation policies. It also signals their reservations about the heavy taxes they ...
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to make a massive increase in petroleum levy up to Rs90 per litre on the sale of oil products, which will be collected from consumers. "The federal government, in exercise of powers confe...