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KARACHI:The government is likely to approve a policy this week to upgrade its existing refineries and enhance their capacity and efficiency, industry officials said on Monday. The policy, known as the ‘brownfield refining policy’, has been pending for several months and the government wants to finalise it before its term ends next week. “The government has communicated its intention to approve the policy to the local oil sector and we expect it to be approved this week,” an official said, requesting anonymity. The present government has already approved a “greenfield…

LAHORE: As the sun rises and street lights turn off in Lahore, capital of Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, Zubair Tufail, an electrical engineer also starts his daily work at a converter station of ±660 kilovolt Matiari-Lahore high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission project in a suburb of Lahore, where he works as team supervisor of operations. A 26-year-old native of Lahore, Tufail joined the project after graduating from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. “Initially, we were just fresh engineers from the university and there was no other HVDC project…