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Month: February 2021
NAB looking for ‘wrongdoing’ in altered deals with IPPs
ISLAMABAD: In an unexpected development, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has swung into action and started staring down with ‘doubt’ at the conversion of MoUs into altered contracts, starting from signing of MoUs with 47 IPPs up to the signing of amended power purchase agreements (PPAs) to look for ‘any wrongdoing.’ And to this effect, the anti-graft body wrote a letter to secretary power on February 10, seeking details till today (Thursday) about the MoUs, amended Power Purchase Agreements and ask for rationale to invoke local arbitration on excess profit…
Read MoreForest cover expands across K-P
Secretary Environment, Forests and Wildlife, Shahidullah Khan inaugurated the spring plantation campaign by planting an olive tree at Bajaur tribal district. Chief Conservator North One, Conservator Merged Areas, Deputy Commissioner Bajaur and Conservator Wildlife were also present on the occasion. Speaking on the occasion, the secretary said forests play an important role in making the environment clean besides combating environmental pollution, desertification and climate change and urged people to actively participate in afforestation campaign by planting trees. He said that the PTI government’s flagship 10 Billion Trees Afforestation Project has…
Read MoreSEPA directs builder to halt construction
The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has issued an Environmental Protection Order (EPO) to Messrs Creek Marina Builders and Developers, directing the company to suspend construction of a building on Abdul Sattar Edhi Avenue in Defence Housing Authority phase-VIII, it emerged on Tuesday. According to the EPO, the company has been served the notice over its failure to file the mandatory environmental impact assessment (EIA), as required by the law. Besides, SEPA director-general Naeem Ahmed Mughal has maintained in the EPO that the builder in question was offered an opportunity of a…
Read MorePM inaugurates Islamabad’s ‘first ever’ Miyawaki forest
Prime Minister Imran Khan kicked off the Spring Tree Plantation Campaign 2021 and inaugurated Islamabad’s first ever Miyawaki forest on Wednesday. The premier launched the campaign in the capital as part of the federal government’s commitment to fight climate change. Federal Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid was also present at the plantation ceremony where the premier himself planted a chir pine tree. Speaking of the Miyawaki method, the PM said last week, “I have launched urban forestry on the lines of Miyawaki technique in Japan where the trees grow 10 times faster and 30 times…
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