Tag: energy crisis
Engro eyes energy boost
The Engro Corporation is planning to conduct a study on the current energy crisis with a view to find ways and means to overcome...
‘Energy crisis crippling industrial, agricultural sectors’
Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said Pakistan is facing a serious energy crisis which has caused huge losses to the industrial and...
If LCCI had a gun we could’ve had a bullet blitz...
The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry has expressed deep concern over awful prolonged load shedding and demanded of the government to seriously solve...
Government must tap coal riches to avert energy crisis
Pakistan must turn to coal – both from its own large untapped reserves and from imports – to fuel power generation beyond the next...
Punjab Assembly adopts resolution against energy crisis
The Punjab Assembly on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution against the energy crisis. The assembly, in its resolution, called for equitable distribution of electricity...
Pak Arab refinery shutdown for maintenance
Pakistan's biggest refinery, the 100,000 barrels-per-day Pak Arab refinery, was shut on Friday for a month-long routine maintenance, industry sources said on Monday.
The refinery...
PPP govt responsible for energy crisis: Nawaz
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif on Monday held the ruling PPP responsible for the energy crisis plaguing the country.
He said this in...
Good pipeline, bad pipeline
The country is in the middle of an energy crisis. The committed demand of the natural gas is around 6 billion cubic feet while...
Media is not the culprit here
Let's stick with the facts, Mr Prime Minister
Troubled relations have given way to calmer times between Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gaillani and the army...
A hike again?
The long and short of it
The prime minister has decided to take a leaf out of the Raja Ashraf manual: giving a deadline which...
Our energy crisis
Pakistan’s economy sustains a 5-6 percent loss of GDP per annum due to the crippling electricity shortages and subsidy that is the main cause...
Two resignations
Mismanagement, inefficiency and intervention
The government has got a little more on its plate than it can handle right now with the resignations of two...
Energy crisis and the Punjab industrial sector
Punjab contributes over 60 percent of the GDP but bears the entire brunt in terms of power shortages. The federal government is heavily dependent...
Cabinet to review energy crisis on Wednesday
The Federal Cabinet will meet on Wednesday to review ongoing gas and energy crisis in the country.
The Cabinet is likely to accord approval...
Oil and gas sector to be revamped to meet energy demand:...
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said the government had decided to reinvigorate the oil
and gas sector to enhance production for meeting...
Help us tap Thar coal potential, Sindh asks Pakistan Business Council
The provincial government has requested the Pakistan Business Council (PBC) to put together their entrepreneurial and financial resources to utilise the true potential of...