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While ringing bells on shortage of fuel stocks, National Power Control Centre (NPCC) has cautioned the government that operations of power plants will cease if immediate measures are not taken to make required fuel available. According to NPCC, as per merit order issued on April 1, 2022, power plants operation on alternate fuel, i.e., HSD, in case primary fuel is not available, becomes economical than certain RFO-operated power plants. Furthermore, generating units of Muzaffargarh (unit- 1, 2,3,5 & 6 at serial 98,99,88, 104& 108 of merit order, respectively) and Jamshoro…

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Meezan Bank has recently signed an agreement with Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL), to enable digitalisation of consumer bill collection via the bank’s state-of-the-art Transaction Banking Solution (eBiz+). The agreement was signed by Irfan Siddiqui Founding President & CEO, Meezan Bank and Ali J Hamdani Managing Director & CEO, SNGPL in the presence of other key management members including Ariful Islam Deputy CEO, Abdullah Ahmed Group Head Corporate & Institutional Banking, M Saqib Ashraf Head Transaction Banking and M Munir Head Payments & Cash Management from Meezan Bank, and…

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Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has launched a tree plantation campaign at its regional offices and model study centres in all provinces of the country, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. According to Dr. Malik Tauqeer Ahmad Khan, Director Regional Services (DRS), regional directors have been directed to engage students, teachers and social activists in this plantation drive. Vice Chancellor, AIOU, Prof. Dr. Zia Ul-Qayyum directed the DRS to launch a nationwide tree plantation campaign and plant trees in the Regional Offices and Model Study Centers. Dr. Zia said that…

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Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (Paec) engineers and technicians have completed the Re-Fueling Outage (RFO) of the nuclear power plant C-3 at Chashma in a record minimum time of 26 days. The RFO of the Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) is a routine requirement for replacement of fuel and maintenance every 14 to 18 months, which is normally completed in 60 to 79 days. But this is the first time in the history of Pakistan nuclear industry that Pakistani engineers and technicians completed the RFO within the shortest-possible time. All six nuclear…

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An MOU between Oil & Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL), Energy & Power Department, Irrigation Department and Public Health Engineering Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been inked to construct a Dam for Nashpa Greater Water Supply Scheme (NGWSS) in District Karak, KPK. Large population of Nashpa block had been facing acute shortage of drinking water, as there was neither ground water potential to feed them with deep wells/tubes wells nor they had any perennial spring/source to be developed to establish a water supply scheme to meet the drinking water requirements…

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