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Pakistan on Thursday appreciated the United States for greatly enhancing capacity of renewable energy projects by approximately 50% through its Sustainable Energy for Pakistan (SEP) project. The statement comes after Pakistani officials and representatives from the US government celebrated the conclusion of the four-year Sustainable Energy for Pakistan (SEP) project, an official statement said on Thursday. Through the SEP project, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) partnered with the Pakistani government to provide more affordable, and climate-friendly power to Pakistan’s national energy grid while fostering economic growth for the country, it…

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Pursuant to the uninterrupted provision of safe and reliable electric power to its valuable customers, K-Electric continues its efforts against illegal encroachments and the kunda network across Karachi. In this regard, KE teams successfully dismantled kunda-related encroachments in 6 locations in Korangi with the help of law enforcement agencies. Around 350 illegal and unsafe connections from the KE network were being used to acquire electricity for both residential and commercial premises around Roomi School, Ibrahim Hyderi, Ali Akber Shah Goth, Sector 51C, and allied Coastal Belt which were then removed.…

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Air quality recorded healthy since January August 12, 2021 Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) Director General Farzana Altaf Shah on Monday told the Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change that the air pollutant ratio in the federal capital was calculated below permissible limits of National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS) since January. The committee meeting was chaired by Senator Muhammad Hamayun Mohmand. She apprised the forum that the most hazardous pollutant of particulate matter (PM2.5) was recorded at 17.5 microgrammes per cubic metre which is far below the NEQS of 35…

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The federal government on Wednesday gave an ex-post facto approval to a Rs29 billion road project against its own decision while also relaxing a statutory requirement for conducting feasibility study for another project. Headed by Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, the Executive Committee of National Economic Council (Ecnec) took certain decisions, which have raised governance and prudent fiscal management related issues. Ecnec took decisions on four summaries but the Ministry of Finance reported only two in its handout, highlighting increasing lack of transparency in the affairs of the government. Ecnec gave…

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Sindh Minister for Energy Imtiaz Ahmed Sheikh on Wednesday said that his department, Engro Energy Limited and a group of Karachi-based industrialists would soon ink a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a 400-megawatt solar-wind electricity generation power house to provide low-cost and uninterrupted power to the industrial units in Sindh, especially Karachi. In a statement, he said that the Sindh government would provide land at Jhimpir for the proposed power plant that would initially produce 50MW electricity in the first phase, and later its capacity will be increased to…

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