Month: February 2021

Indian Cyber-espionage Effort Targets Election, Energy Officials In Pakistan And Kashmir

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A hacking group with ties to the Indian military adopted a pair of mobile surveillance tools to spy on geopolitical targets in Pakistan and Kashmir amid persistent regional tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors, according to a report from cybersecurity company, Lookout Inc. The group is known for commandeering legitimate web services in South Asia and embedding surveillance tools or malware inside these apps and services to conduct espionage.

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Pakistan’s Climate Ambitions

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The sudden disruption to our lives caused by coronavirus forewarns of the havoc which can be unleashed by impending climate related disasters. The varied impacts of climate change are already being experienced, and are expected to get worse, if the world does not get its act together. In fact, some underlying causes of climate change such as deforestation and factory farming have also enabled pathogens to mutate and transmit more readily across species, whereby increasing the risk of pandemics such as Covid-19. While Pakistan still contributes an insignificant proportion to…

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Energy sector

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There were times when our energy sector was rated in the region as one of the best performing and forward looking sectors. It was a great blend of well-performing entities of private and public sectors. Public sector entities such as Southern Gas Company (SSGC), Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Company (SNGPL), Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL), Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL), Pakistan State Oil (PSO) were listed as blue chip companies, with PSO listed among the Fortune 500 companies of the world. Likewise, in power sector, with WAPDA in the…

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Russia’s Rosneft Net Profit Plummets Amid Pandemic

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Moscow, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 12th Feb, 2021 ):Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft on Friday announced a nearly 80 percent drop in net profit in 2020, following a record plunge in crude oil demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The state-controlled producer declared a net profit of 147 billion rubles ($2.0 billion) in 2020, down 79 percent compared to the previous year. In 2019, before the onset of the pandemic and its devastating impact on the oil and gas industry, Rosneft — in which Britain’s BP…

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Pakistan has potential to export electricity, says CM Murad

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KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Friday that given the vast resources of the province, Pakistan hasthe potential to become an exporter of electricity. He expressed this belief while addressing a reception hosted for the heads of foreign delegations visiting Karachi to partake in the seventh edition of Aman-2021 exercise, in which 45 countries are participating. The CM said the province was rich in resources, had one of the largest coal deposits in the world and was home to vast renewable energy corridors, which could be…

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