Month: September 2020

Chinese brands invited to target Pakistan tea market

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Inviting Chinese popular tea brands to explore Pakistan’s tea market, Dr Sajid Khursheed, a doctorate from Beijing, has reckoned that the Pakistanis, especially youths, were very fond of drinking tea. “There is big potential for Chinese investors in Pakistan’s tea market,” he declared while participating in a TV talk show of CPEC Face to Face at the China Economic Network Television on the subject of China’s milk tea craze. “Pakistan people love tea and have a long history of tea culture”, Dr Sajid Khursheed, a teacher at the Canadian International School in…

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Pakistan to start producing solar panels, lithium battery

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Pakistan will start manufacturing solar panels and lithium batteries of busses locally. The solar panel indigenous production is expected to start within 18 months. According to the information shared by the Federal Minister for Science & Technology, Fawad Chaudhary, the buses to be run on batteries will also be made in Pakistan. The Chinese companies are all set to establish solar panel manufacturing plants in Pakistan and another major Chinese battery maker will set up a lithium battery manufacturer in Pakistan.

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Reaching energy and climate goals demands a dramatic scaling up of clean energy technologies

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A major effort to develop and deploy clean energy technologies worldwide is urgently needed to meet international energy and climate goals, particularly in order to reduce carbon emissions from areas beyond the power sector such as transport, buildings and industry, according to a new IEA report released today. With global carbon emissions at unacceptably high levels, structural changes to the energy system are required to achieve the rapid and lasting decline in emissions called for by the world’s shared climate targets. The IEA’s Energy Technology Perspectives 2020– the first core ETP report for…

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Op-ed: Impacts of CPEC on Asian region and beyond

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The comprehensive development deal between Pakistan and China (CPEC) not only creates strategic and economic connectivity between these two countries but also has the potential of integrating other regional and extra-regional countries, and could play a key role in improving the economic and security environment. The project is being considered a vital component in realizing the prospective of regional connectivity and improving trade with regions like Central Asia, Africa, the Middle-East, and Europe. From a strategic perspective, the CPEC will bring many benefits to China and one of them is the development…

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Revoking KE exclusivity is no solution

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EDITORIAL: National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) is to hold a public hearing on 21 September to consider its proposal to end K-Electric’s exclusivity over Karachi. The argument in favour of this proposal is that this would encourage competition in the sector which would benefit consumers, the prime objective of privatization today as opposed to the time when K-Electric was privatized, while those against this proposal point out, equally validly, that this would effectively end Shanghai Electric Power’s (SEP’s) interest in purchasing K-Electric. The “knee-jerk” Nepra proposal will not only…

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