Day: November 16, 2022

Every time a new government takes control of our country, it starts to reinvent the wheel, always with new zeal and zest. It vows to revolutionize the country in a matter of months, not years, with slogans like (in no particular order) “turn around Pakistan”, ‘make Pakistan an Asian tiger”, “a job paradise for foreigners”, and the list goes on ad infinitum. Taskforces are formed overnight to work on “war footings”, mostly composed of the same old hands, hoping this time they will discover the “treasure” their eyes had missed previously.…

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SSGC’s Chairperson Dr Shamshad Akhtar has inaugurated a new assembly line for measuring units of G-4 Gallus residential gas meters. The gas utility’s Meter Manufacturing Plant (MMP) is South East Asia’s only one of its kind located inside the head office compound. SSGC’s MMP started its production in 1975 with the prime objective of fulfilling domestic gas meters’ requirements of both the Sui companies. The plant is a source of direct and/or indirect income for around 10,000 Pakistanis. Besides, MMP is a progressive source of saving valuable foreign exchange. Currently,…

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Pakistan Businesses Forum (PBF) has demanded from the Power Division to notify the revised tariff of Rs 13 per unit on tube wells in the preview of recent announced Prime Minister Agriculture package, adding yet notification in this regard has not been issued and relief is not being passed towards the farmers from the Discos PBF Vice President/ CEO Ahmad Jawad said Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Monday approved ‘Prime Minister’s agriculture package, with little impact on the budget, but deferred a decision on providing subsidised electricity…

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The counsel for the Balochistan government on Tuesday informed a five-judge Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, that the presidential reference regarding the Reko Diq agreement was maintainable because it was a matter of public interest. Lawyer Salahudin Ahmed also informed the bench that despite elaborating dire consequences, a three-judge bench of the apex court led by then chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry did not stop the proceeding and declared the Reko Diq deal as void in 2013 which became the cause of $10 billion award…

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History traced back 2000 years ago shows Pakistani and Chinese scholars, monks and businessmen followed the ancient Silk Road and crossed Karakoram Mountains to carry out cultural exchanges and trade. Pakistan is one of the first countries to participate in the Belt and Road Initiative. CPEC, a landmark project of “BRI”, has gradually shown practical results in Pakistan in the past 10 years since its launch in 2013. The article “Pakistanis Perceive China as “Their Best Friend” published by the US “Diplomat” in October 2022, more than 1,200 Pakistanis participated…

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