ISLAMABAD: Chairman Special Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir, Shehryar Khan Afridi has strongly denounced the Indian occupation regime for enacting new laws to enable illegal military cantonments in the disputed area of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK) and urged United Nations to take action to stop this illegal process.Addressing a seminar here at National Press Club on Sunday, organised to mark Kashmir…
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KARACHI: The federal government of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in 2009 had written off Rs31 billion owed by K-Electric.An agreement between K-Electric and Pakistan People’s Party government has emerged through which the government wrote off billions of billions owed by the power utility. The amended 2009 agreement allowed for Rs31 billion in arrears to be written off as government losses.The…
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Chairman CPEC Authority Lt. General (retd) Asim Saleem Bajwa has said that the 306 kilometers Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway (M-6) will promote the socio-economic development of interior Sindh. The M-6 motorway is approved in the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on BOT basis. Chairman further underlined that M-6 will enhance motorway connectivity by linking East Balochistan to entire Motorway…
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Ongoing development of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Russia will allow it to seize a 15-percent share of the global LNG market, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak wrote in an article in the Russian magazine Energy Policy. Since Russia began LNG exports in 2009 with the Sakhalin-2 project, its exports of LNG have increased 4.5 times, Novak said.…
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PAKISTAN heavily depends on groundwater to sustain its agricultural production and to ensure food security. However, it is feared that the on-going unsustainable groundwater abstractions might have serious repercussions to the sustainability of the agrarian economy of Pakistan. After the green revolution of the 1960s, groundwater use in irrigation has been increasing steadily in Pakistan. Between 1960 and 2010, the…
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The recently signed agreements in Pakistan for hydropower projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) marked the beginning of a mature new phase for the program, which is under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), experts told the Global Times on Thursday. The concessional agreement for the 700.7-MW Azad Pattan Hydropower Project was signed last week, a breakthrough for the implementation…
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Imran Khan, the prime minister of Pakistan, has vowed to build the “biggest dam in Pakistan’s history”. The 272-metre-tall Diamer Basha dam will be able to store up to eight million acre feet (MAF) of water. Khan has also promised to build more dams to generate “clean electricity”; this one will generate 4,500 megawatts. Not all are convinced, and some…
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ISLAMABAD, July 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For 20 years, Khunjerab National Park was a point of tension between Pakistan’s government – which established the park in 1975 as a sanctuary for rare species – and locals who had grazed their livestock on the land for generations. As disputes over the land raged, poachers decimated Khunjerab’s wildlife, villagers say –…
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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday sought an explanation from the chairman of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) over the construction of a club near Rawal Lake. The court issued the order while hearing a petition filed by a citizen against the construction of the Navy Club and denial of citizens’ access to the lake. “The chairman, Capital…
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The UN Secretary-General has told a meeting of ministers it is “vital” the world moves towards clean energy. Antonio Guterres said decisions on recovery strategies must account for the need to transition to a more sustainable future. He was speaking at the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Clean Energy Transitions Summit. The virtual meeting is being billed as the year’s largest…
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