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ISLAMABAD: The National Transmission & Despatch Company (NTDC) on Tuesday blamed the policy and procedural limitations and govern¬ment entities for certain deficiencies in the 27-year Integrated Generation Capacity Expansion Plan (IGCEP 2020-47).However, it said the deficiencies in the expansion plan will be fixed during the regulatory scrutiny.Responding to various interventions made by provincial governments and other stakeholders over the IGCEP 2020-47, contested observations like delay in the Diamer-Bhasha Dam’s (DBD) commercial operations until 2043, the company said the construc¬tion on the mega project did not start on Dec 31, 2019…

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LAHORE: When authorities started planting millions of trees in the Changa Manga Forest five years ago, the idea was to bring back life to forest land that had been destroyed by illegal logging, water scarcity and fires. Now that the trees have matured, they are having an even sweeter side-effect — helping to boost the local bee population and honey production in the area. As part of Pakistan’s efforts to offset the impacts of climate change by rehabilitating forests, conserving soil and improving water management, 3.5 million trees were planted on…

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ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet has approved the appointment of Rahat Kaunain as the new chairperson of the Competitive Commission of Pakistan (CCP).  According to sources, the cabinet on Tuesday gave a go-ahead to the appointment of Rahat Kaunain Hassan, Mujtaba Ahmad Lodhi and Shumalia Lone as CCP members. It also okayed the Ministry of Finance’s proposal to appoint Kaunain as CCP chairperson.  Rahat Kaunain received her LLM degree from King’s College London, having focused her academic work on the law of international finance and international business transactions. Earlier, the finance ministry…

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ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday decided to launch an inquiry against Sindh Energy Minister Imtiaz Sheikh over illegal allotment of land. According to NAB sources, the provincial minister was involved in allotting 30 acres of land in Korangi, Karachi. The PPP leader with the help of Board of Revenue officials caused a loss of millions of rupees to the national exchequer. An anti-corruption case was also registered against Imtiaz Sheikh in 2005 for land grabbing. Earlier on Tuesday, the NAB finalised reference against Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)…

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Sindh Energy Minister Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh has said that the Sindh government is ready to assume the control of three power supply companies of the province, namely the K-Electric (KE), the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco), and the Sukkur Electric Power Company (Sepco), if the federal government “is unable to manage the institutions of the energy sector in the country”. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, the minister said the federal government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was doing “sheer injustice with the people of Karachi by subjecting them to a…

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