Year: 2022

Pakistan not mentioned in US National Security Strategy 2022

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Washington/Islamabad, Oct 14 (IANS) Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, once considered as key allies of Washington, are not even mentioned in the US National Security Strategy 2022, which identifies China as “Americas most consequential geopolitical challenge”. The 48-page document does mention terrorism and other geo-strategic threats in the South and Central Asian region, but unlike the recent past, it does not name Pakistan as an ally needed to tackle those threats, Dawn news reported. Pakistan was also absent from the 2021 strategy paper. In Washington, the omission is seen as reflecting…

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Future of CPEC projects

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The high point of roll out-of mega projects under the CPEC (China Pakistan Economic Corridor) was in the last tenure of PML-N (Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz) government from 2013-18. During this period a number of mega projects in the energy and infrastructure sector set their footprint in all parts of the country, notably, the thermal power projects in Punjab and hydro power projects in the north of KPK and Kashmir and infrastructure projects in Balochistan. The Gwadar port and its allied facilities also got a kick-start during this period. Shehbaz Sharif,…

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It has been observed with grieve concern that DISCOs Distribution Transformers burn out during summer du

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It has been observed with grieve concern that DISCOs Distribution Transformers burn out during summer due to overload. As the weather goes hotter, the load is increased and resultantly the Distribution Transformers are burnt out worth of billions of rupees during each summer season.It is highly negligence because of non installation of system protection equipment along with the Transformers. The traditional cut-out system installed by Line Staff is highly dangerous which is often tied with extra heavy wire to avoid frequent disconnection and efforts to visit tripped Transformers time and…

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Except petrol, all petroleum products may witness hike

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The coalition government is likely to jack up the per litre prices of all petroleum products except the petrol for the remaining fifteen days of October,2022 it was learnt on Thursday. According to sources in oil industry, the price of high-speed diesel (HSD) is expected to witness Rs 11.57/litre increase while Kerosene oil price is likely to be increased by Rs 4.52/litre, and light diesel oil (LDO) price may find Rs 7.48/litre hike. However, petrol price is estimated to be reduced by Rs 10.78/litre, they added. According to the working…

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Pakistan to ask China to move towards ML-1 project bidding

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Pakistan will ask China in the upcoming Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) meeting of CPEC to move towards the bidding process of the much-awaited ML-1 (Mainline-1) for the construction of a rail-line from Karachi to Peshawar. Pakistan will also inform the Chinese side about the devastating effects of severe floods causing $32 billion to $34 billion losses with the request to find out ways and means for extending financial help in this hour of need, preferably through grants. Against the outstanding repayments of over Rs260 billion by the Chinese power producers,…

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