Tag: Power

ISLAMABAD - The state-owned China Three Gorges Project Corporation (CTGPC) has shown willingness to invest in four large hydropower power projects in Pakistan - Bhasha, Bunji, Kohala and Karot - provided the government removes legal bottlenecks in the award of contracts.
An official source said the demand was made by the head of a 10-member Chinese delegation, China Three Gorges Project Corporation (CTGPC) Chairman Cao Guangjing, during a meeting with the Minister for Water and

LAHORE - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) held Istahqam-e-Pakistan rally from the party office at the Punjab House to the shrine of Hazrat Ali Hajvairi on Tuesday to gain the street power before its big show scheduled on April 10. MQM Rabta Committee member Saif Yar Khan who has been assigned to look after party's affairs in Punjab led the rally.
Dozens of people on motorcycles, cars, vans and jeeps were carrying banners, party flags and Altaf Hussain's portraits and chanting

KASUR - Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad has said that they do not want a war with the US, but just want abolition of the system under which the nation is being enslaved.
Talking to JI Kasur workers, Qazi said that the US under a conspiracy was spreading unrest in the country. "The US is trying to destroy Pakistan's nuclear power because it considers our nuclear power is more dangerous for Israel than it is for India. We can stand on our feet if there is no US

KARACHI - The Port Qasim Authority (PQA) has suffered a loss of almost Rs 2 million in litigation over - what the sources say - useless issues at the hands of the authority's former deputed employee, Abdul Jabbar Memon.
Despite the fact that Memon is a government employee, he is also a member of the Sindh Bar Council (SBC) in clear violation of government rules.
He has been constantly involved in litigation with the PQA after his repatriation, thereby causing the authority

ISLAMABAD - Calling the demands of young doctors legitimate, the Upper House on Saturday said the salaries of doctors were too less and should be increased.
Speaking on a point of order, Leader of the Opposition Wasim Sajjad said doctors' demands were legitimate and the government, particularly the Punjab government, was not tackling the problem seriously. He advised the Punjab government to avoid highhandedness in dealing with the problem, as doctors were educated people and use

ISLAMABAD - With the objective of resolving the load-shedding issue, the government decided on Friday to completely revamp the power sector with in order to get rid of load-shedding and address other issues of sustainability in the power sector. The meeting was chaired by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. Both took serious notice of the continued load-shedding of power and gas in the country and ordered that no bureaucratic delays and bottlenecks be

KARACHI - Shah Latif Town Block 20-C has a new power boss: Seher Electrical Services, a private contractor, has been providing electricity connections, installing meters, collecting bills from residents of the area and even penalising defaulters, Pakistan Today has learnt.
None of the revenue collected by the Seher Electrical Services goes to the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC), as officials in the power utility claimed they had no information about this illegal

KARACHI - Pakistan-born American is keen familiarise the people living in the rural areas of Pakistan with the technology of home-made, non-patent and cheap 'solar box cooker' as his social responsibility.
"I have come here to show the world's cheapest solar box cooker, a simple technology that uses sunlight to bake and cook plain rice, prepare lentils and other foods on daily basis in a covered casserole, a porcelain-enamel cooking dish," said Pakistani expatriate Afzal Syed in

COLOMBO - Openers Tillakaratne Dilshan and Upul Tharanga hit brilliant hundreds to guide Sri Lanka to an emphatic 10-wicket win over England which eased them into the World Cup semi-finals on Saturday. The 1996 champions restricted England to 229-6 before romping home on the back of a fiery unfinished opening stand of 231 in a one-sided finish, much to the delight of a packed 35,000 crowd at R. Premadasa stadium.
Dilshan finished with a 115-ball 108 not out, spiced with 10

TOKYO - The giant TVs are silent, the neon lights dark and the bars of Tokyo half-empty. Two weeks after Japan's deadly earthquake, the city that once never slept is learning to live with a new era of frugality. Many public escalators are idle, the trains less frequent and the usually overflowing shelves of the round-the-clock convenience stores sparsely stocked. In the daytime, under the crisp winter skies, the city almost seems to have recovered from the shock of the massive March

KARACHI - The ship-mounted 232 MW rental power project is likely to commence operations on March 31 after overcoming minor technical glitches, APP has learnt. An official of the Turkish power ship, Karkey Karadenz, told APP on Friday that a delegation of the Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB) will meet with directors and technical staff of the rental ship on Saturday.
Despite in the state of readiness, the date for starting commercial operational will be notified to

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday said that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) that came into power through political strength, power of votes and support of the masses, would sit in opposition if it lost the masses' support.
"We will remain in power until we have the support of masses... until we have political strength and force... until we have power of votes. It is our right," he remarked while addressing a function on the Pakistan Sweet Home, organised by

KASUR - Hundreds of people took out a rally against unscheduled load shedding in Kasur and reduced millions of rupees vans, motorcycles and other valuables to ashes. Reportedly, a rally of power loom workers and local residents that started from Kot Murad Khan, reached the WAPDA office where other angry people also joined it. The protesters chanted slogans against the WAPDA and said their business had been closed due to the load shedding, due to which, they were unable to feed their

SIALKOT - The teams of GEPCO have restored the suspended electricity supply to the 15 tornado-hit villages near Head Marala, Sialkot. Gujranwala GEPCO Chief Executive Muhammad Ibrahim Majoka disclosed this while talking to journalists.
JI LEADER PASSES AWAY: Sialkot-based 78-year-old exporter and Jamaat-e-Islami Sialkot leader Professor Muhammad Ameen Javaid passed away after protracted illness. He was the father of ex-district nazim and former Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and

FAISALABAD - Uninterrupted gas and electricity supply to Faisalabad region is essential for the running of local industrial, commercial and agriculture sector which are a primary source of livelihood for millions of workers in the city, said Pakistan Peoples Party's (PPP) senior leader and leader of the opposition in the Punjab Assembly, Raja Riaz. He was speaking at a meeting of Faisalabad Electric Supply Company Limited (FESCO)'s Load Management Committee held at a local hotel. "I

TOKYO - Japanese engineers conceded on Friday that burying a crippled nuclear plant in sand and concrete may be a last resort to prevent a catastrophic radiation release, the method used to seal huge leakages from Chernobyl in 1986. But they still hoped to solve the crisis by fixing a power cable to two reactors by Saturday to restart water pumps needed to cool overheating nuclear fuel rods. Workers also sprayed water on the No.3 reactor, the most critical of the plant's six.
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KARACHI - With the transfer of gas fields to provinces, the Sindh government has decided to generate electricity through gas-based thermal power plants from small or dormant gas fields in the province, it has been learnt.
Well-placed sources told Pakistan Today that the feasibility studies for the power plants on small gas fields would be purchased from Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB) so that generation of power can be started at the earliest.
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