Tag: Fuel

Iran says nuclear fuel swap talk an ‘independent’ issue

TEHRAN: Iran reiterated on Tuesday that the nuclear fuel swap issue was separate from its overall atomic programme for which the six world powers and Tehran are expected to hold talks later this month.
"We have said from the beginning that these two issues are independent from one another," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told AFP. "The issue of fuel swap is an independent issue and the issue of dialogue with 5+1 is another independent issue.
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‘Hike in fuel prices will add to common man’s woes’

ISLAMABAD: Inflation is expected to shoot up with the 9 percent increase in prices of petroleum products and 2 percent expected increase in power tariff thus hiking the cost of doing business in other sectors of economy and directly impacting the common man, former finance minister Dr Salman Shah said while talking to Pakistan Today.
Monthly increase in petroleum prices and power tariff has drifted the country to stagnation, he said, adding that it will have adverse effects on