Category: News & Announcement

One might reasonably posit that when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) signalled that Saudi Arabia was once again going to produce oil to the maximum to crash oil prices in a full-scale oil price war, Russian President Vladimir Putin probably fell off the horse he was riding bare-chested somewhere in Siberia because he was laughing so much. There is a phrase in Russian intelligence circles for clueless people that are ruthlessly used without their knowledge in covert operations, which is ‘a useful idiot’, and it is hard to think…

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The Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organization(PEDO) will introduce information technology-based modern monitoring system to ensure quality and timely completion of its ongoing energy projects in the province. Giving briefing the 44th meeting of board of directors of the organization Chief Executive Pedo Engineer Naeem Khan said the PEDO would start e-biding and e-tendering process to ensure transparency in projects and its administration working. He said that organization has taken several precautions to prevent spread of coronavirus and decided to send employees aged over 50 and those on surplus list would be sent for two week from next…

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Rethinking relations between the United States and Pakistan is certainly not easy, given the turbulence, acrimony, and mutual recrimination which afflicts this decades long bilateral engagement. Yet, given that both countries still need each other, albeit for different reasons, necessitates identification of mutually beneficial means whereby this relationship may be made less erratic and more positive. We have recently prepared a white paper, “Leveraging the Moment of Change: Pathways to a Sustainable US-Pakistan Relationship”, which is a consensus document signed by leading experts on Pakistan within Washington DC. This paper…

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ISLAMABAD: The government has worked out a plan to ensure savings of $273 million (Rs43 billion) per year on import of petroleum products. The savings may be used either in lowering the price of petrol for end consumers or utilized for any productive project in oil and gas sector. And to this effect, top mandarins of the Petroleum Division gave a presentation to Prime Minister Imran Khan some days back as a part of out-of-box thinking to bring down the petroleum products’ prices with an aim to provide relief to…

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Crown Group, a local auto parts manufacturer in Pakistan launched a two-door and two-person hatchback electric vehicle (EV) a few weeks ago. It costs Rs400,000. The company has three and four-person versions as well, all under Rs1million — quite affordable compared to existing combustion engine models. Contingent on the now-forgotten implementation of the Electric Vehicle Policy, the company intends to ramp up production having partnered with eight Chinese EV companies. In January, rickshaw maker Sazgar Engineering launched its first electric rickshaw as well. Other players are bringing EV buses. It…

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