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IPP claims contracts being negotiated ‘forcibly’

ISLAMABAD: M/s Sapphire Electric Company Limited (SECL) has said that this is the fourth time sovereign power...

Updated 08 Nov, 2024 09:42am

Contracts with 8 more IPPs renegotiated, NA told

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly was informed on Friday that contracts with eight additional independent power...

Updated 26 Oct, 2024 12:26pm

Opinion

The power sector challenges

Due to a significant economic downturn and resentments in public, the government had no choice but to implement...

Published 25 Oct, 2024 07:02am

Editorials

Focus on structural reforms

EDITORIAL: Federal Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, while talking to a group of investors led by Barclays, ...

Published 13 Oct, 2024 06:46am

Govt ends deals with five private IPPs

KARACHI: Government has ended power purchase contracts with five private companies, including one with the country’s...

Updated 11 Oct, 2024 09:12am

Opinion

Building a resilient energy sector

The power sector in Pakistan has become a hotbed of discussions, with a particular focus on the long-standing issue...

Updated 23 Sep, 2024 07:38am

Opinion

IPPs and capacity payments – how to deal with the challenge

This is a follow-up piece. The first part appeared on 1st August 2024. Both may be read together. Let us explore...

Published 10 Sep, 2024 06:32am

Opinion

The power struggle: navigating Pakistan’s energy crisis

Energy crisis, rising tariffs, IPPs, capacity payments! These words appear in Pakistani newspapers daily,...

Published 03 Sep, 2024 07:01am

Opinion

Task force on IPPs: another wild goose chase?

The formation of the Energy Task Force on Independent Power Producers (IPPs) appears to be a distraction from the...

Published 12 Aug, 2024 06:36am

Opinion

Begrudging private sector

At the outset, the recent Independent Power Plants (IPPs) controversy has magnified the bitterness and grudges that...

Published 09 Aug, 2024 06:56am

Opinion

IPPs and capacity payments

Let me ask some basic questions to start the discussion. What is the main issue with the Pakistani economy? Is it...

Updated 01 Aug, 2024 07:31am

Pakistan

Govt urged to revisit contracts with IPPs

PESHAWAR: Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) provincial Chairman Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao said the agreements reached with...

Published 29 Jul, 2024 06:37am

Markets

PKI urges govt to stop making capacity payments to IPPs

LAHORE: The Pakistan Kissan Ittehad (PKI) has asked the government to halt payments to the Independent Power...

Published 25 Jul, 2024 06:24am

Business & Finance

FPCCI demands govt review IPP agreements

KARACHI: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has once again urged the government to...

Published 23 Jul, 2024 08:10am

Business & Finance

PYMA urges govt to reconsider deals with IPPS

KARACHI: Sheikh Khalil Qaiser, Chairman of the Pakistan Yarn Merchants Association (PYMA), along with Senior Vice...

Published 23 Jul, 2024 08:03am

Markets

Govt urged to renegotiate power tariff with IPPs

KARACHI: Industrialists urged the federal government to renegotiate the power tariff in the given contracts with...

Published 23 Jul, 2024 07:29am

Markets

FY24 power generation drops 2pc YoY

KARACHI: Pakistan’s power generation recorded at 127,259 GWh (14,504MW) during FY24 down 2.0 percent on...

Published 23 Jul, 2024 06:34am

Business & Finance

FPCCI demands reviewing agreements with IPPs

ISLAMABAD: President Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), Atif Ikram Sheikh has said...

Updated 22 Jul, 2024 07:57am

Govt to review existing power purchase agreements

PM Shehbaz constitutes Inter-Ministerial Committee to review existing PPAs template to protect consumers against losses caused by inadequacies on part of power producers

Updated 20 Jul, 2024 05:42pm

Markets

Power sector woes: IPP agreements benefit companies but not consumers, Dr Gohar Ejaz says

Former caretaker minister for Commerce and Industries Dr Gohar Ejaz has said that the agreements with the...

Published 15 Jul, 2024 10:23pm

Editorials

The illogical vilification of investors

EDITORIAL: Bashing IPPs (Independent Power Producers) – especially those under the CPEC (China Pakistan Economic...

Updated 15 Jul, 2024 08:22am

BMP for revisiting power purchase contracts with a view to reducing energy cost

LAHORE: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s Businessmen Panel (BMP) has stressed the need...

Updated 15 Jul, 2024 09:04am

To be conducted by PPIB, CPPA-G and Nepra: Govt orders ‘audit’ of agreements with IPPs

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Power Sardar Awais Khan Leghari on Friday ordered the audit of dozens of IPPs (Independent...

Updated 13 Jul, 2024 08:53am

Business & Finance

RoI, capacity payments and other terms: Senate panel may initiate probe into IPP pacts

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Power is likely to initiate a probe into the agreements of the...

Updated 09 Jul, 2024 09:05am

Business & Finance

Govt should cancel all agreements with IPPs, says FPCCI leader

KARACHI: Saquib Fayyaz Magoon, Acting President FPCCI, has said that federal government should cancel all agreements...

Published 06 Jul, 2024 06:48am

Markets

Tanveer urges govt to annul agreements with IPPs forthwith

LAHORE: Patron-in-Chief United Business Group (UBG), S M Tanveer, has strongly urged the federal government to ...

Published 04 Jul, 2024 05:47am

Opinion

Capacity payments conundrum

The matter of increased capacity payments to power plants has sparked a heated controversy. In recent years, these...

Updated 19 Oct, 2023 05:34am

PKR slide has doubled capacity payments: PD

Power Secretary Rashid Mahmood Langrial explains that foreign-funded dollar-denominated IPPs have contributed the most

Updated 19 Sep, 2023 10:56am

Opinion

Moving from failure to failure successfully?

Winston Churchill said, ‘Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm’....

Published 18 Sep, 2023 07:14am

Aug electricity bills: Consumers hit by Rs7.64 to Rs15 per unit hike: PD

ISLAMABAD: The Power Division has revealed that domestic and commercial consumers have been hit by Rs 7.64 to Rs....

Updated 12 Sep, 2023 09:34am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Nov 22	277.85
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Nov 22	277.65
USD to Japanese Yen / Nov 23	154.78
USD to Swiss Franc / Nov 23	0.89
Pound Sterling to USD / Nov 23	1.25
Euro to USD / Nov 23	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Nov 22	5,969.34
India Sensex / Nov 22	79,117.11
Tokyo Nikkei / Nov 22	38,283.85
Nasdaq / Nov 22	18,003.65
Hang Seng / Nov 22	19,229.97
FTSE 100 / Nov 22	8,262.08
Dow Jones / Nov 22	44,296.51
Germany DAX 30 / Nov 22	19,322.59

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Nov 22	17,785
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Nov 22	240,483
Petrol/Litre / Nov 23	248.38
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Nov 23	71.24
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Nov 23	2,716.19
Diesel/Litre / Nov 23	255.14

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Nov 23 786 Investments Limited(786)	6.82 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Nov 23 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	593.76 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Nov 23 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Nov 23 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Nov 23 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	70.89 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Nov 23 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	120.21 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Nov 23 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	1,023.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Nov 23 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Nov 23 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	12.55 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Nov 23 786 Investments Limited(786)	6.82 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Nov 23 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	593.76 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Nov 23 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Nov 23 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Nov 23 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	70.89 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Nov 23 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	120.21 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Nov 23 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	1,023.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Nov 23 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Nov 23 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	12.55 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 23 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	177,135,830 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Nov 23 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	124,131,268 ▲ 0.00
Hascol Petrol / Nov 23 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	105,013,176 ▲ 0.00
Fauji Foods Ltd / Nov 23 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	77,697,371 ▲ 0.00
Treet Battery / Nov 23 Treet Battery Limited(TBL)	43,783,366 ▲ 0.00
B.O.Punjab / Nov 23 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	36,573,763 ▲ 0.00
Sui South Gas / Nov 23 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	32,719,678 ▲ 0.00
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Nov 23 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	27,969,689 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Nov 23 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	25,874,820 ▲ 0.00

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