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Bifurcation of NTDC: a flawed plan?

A recent news flash about unbundling the National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) has left many wondering...

Updated 09 Jul, 2024 07:52am

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

Markets

Concern voiced over adverse impact of hike in power tariffs

KARACHI: Chairman of FPCCI Advisory Board and National Business Group Pakistan, President Pakistan Businessmen and...

Published 08 Jul, 2024 07:56am

Private sector’s participation in privatisation of Discos: World Bank agrees to extend financial support under NLTA

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank (WB) has agreed to extend financial support to the government to facilitate private sector...

Updated 08 Jul, 2024 09:20am

Business & Finance

PM Shehbaz announces action against officials overcharging electricity units

Premier asks FIA to identify such officials, suspend them, and take strict action against them

Published 06 Jul, 2024 08:05pm

Power sector’s circular debt reaches Rs2,655bn by May

ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) was informed on Friday that the circular debt of the...

Updated 06 Jul, 2024 09:00am

Fatal accidents: Nepra imposes Rs115m fine on Discos

ISLAMABAD: National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has imposed fines of Rs 115 million on four power...

Updated 06 Jul, 2024 08:55am

Editorials

Design flaws in Neelum-Jhelum project

EDITORIAL: In yet more bad news for Pakistan’s blighted power sector, serious design flaws have been identified in...

Published 04 Jul, 2024 06:17am

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

Power load: PD submits revised proposal to Cabinet for rate cut

ISLAMABAD: The Power Division is said to have submitted an altered proposal to the federal Cabinet to slash rates...

Updated 04 Jul, 2024 08:51am

Opinion

Consumer end tariff design and National Electricity Plan 2023

Utilities consider investments in generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure as fixed costs because...

Updated 03 Jul, 2024 07:57am

Pakistan

Pesco reduces load-shedding duration on 75 feeders

PESHAWAR: Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) has reduced load-shedding duration on 75 feeders to 12 hours....

Published 01 Jul, 2024 07:01am

Power tariff hike, loadshedding: Consumers heap criticism on Nepra at hearing

ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) on Thursday faced criticism from consumers at a...

Updated 28 Jun, 2024 09:23am

Pakistan

Loss-making entities: NHA, power sector top the list

ISLAMABAD: The National Highway Authority (NHA) and the power sector have topped the list of 23 loss-making entities...

Updated 27 Jun, 2024 11:01am

Power sector: Govt anticipates $2bn financing by IFIs in 3 years

For Power Distribution Strengthening Project-1, Asian Development Bank to extend OCR funding of $ 400 million during 2024-25

Updated 25 Jun, 2024 09:45am

Opinion

Fixed charges: boon or bane for electricity consumers?

With the recent Discos tariff determination by power regulator Nepra, fixed charges have been introduced for ...

Published 24 Jun, 2024 07:33am

Editorials

KP’s power woes

EDITORIAL: There appears to be little evidence, so far, of a sensible solution to the dispute that has erupted...

Published 24 Jun, 2024 07:31am

Discos’ overbilling, MDI manipulation by industries: PM directs PD to initiate forensic audit, inquiry

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed the Power Division to initiate forensic audit/inquiry into the...

Updated 21 Jun, 2024 08:52am

Developing an electricity market: ADB wing rates TA as successful and relevant

ISLAMABAD: The Independent Evaluation Department (IED) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has rated technical...

Updated 21 Jun, 2024 09:15am

Markets

Power generation in Pakistan improves, cost declines 10% YoY in May

Power generation in Pakistan clocked in at 12,617 GWh (16,958 MW) in May 2024, an increase of 2.7% YoY as compared...

Updated 20 Jun, 2024 10:47pm

Gandapur threatens to move IMF over dues ‘owed’ by federal govt

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sardar Ali Amin Gandapur severely criticised the federal government for...

Updated 20 Jun, 2024 09:42am

Payment settlement between KE, govt entities: PM directs PD to present ‘holistic’ solution

NEPRA announces hearing dates on tariffs of KE

Updated 20 Jun, 2024 02:35pm

Suki Kinari Hydropower Station: First Unit registers success

LAHORE: The first unit (Unit 4) of Pakistan Suki Kinari Hydropower Station, the largest hydropower power station...

Updated 17 Jun, 2024 03:03pm

Pakistan

Electricity rate reduction for industries will boost exports, says power minister

Sardar Awais Leghari says revolutionary measures are being taken to bring improvement in the power distribution system

Updated 16 Jun, 2024 09:40pm

Editorials

The Neelum-Jhelum disaster

EDITORIAL: So, it turns out that the “crown jewel” 969-megawatt Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project (NJHPP), which...

Published 15 Jun, 2024 06:57am

Wind projects’ tariff issues stay unresolved: Islamabad should not expect any investment from DFC: US team

ISLAMABAD: United States Treasury Department delegation led by Assistant Secretary Brent Neiman on Thursday...

Updated 14 Jun, 2024 09:00am

July to Sept 2024: NPCC reduces RLNG demand for power generation

ISLAMABAD: The country’s power system operator, the National Power Control Centre (NPCC) has reduced the Gasified...

Updated 14 Jun, 2024 08:57am

BR Research

Power sector: Reforming with subsidies

You have long been told the energy subsidy reforms are in full swing. There are talks of limiting energy sector...

Published 13 Jun, 2024 08:16am

Opinion

Navigating economic diplomacy–I

Spiraling electricity bills and the resulting unbearable burden on the ordinary consumers has brought the agreements...

Updated 13 Jun, 2024 08:10am

Pakistan

A whopping 103.7pc raise in power subsidy

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has increased subsidy for power sector by a whopping 103.7 percent – from the...

Published 13 Jun, 2024 03:32am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jul 10	27,863
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 10	278.43
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 10	161.53
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 10	0.90
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 10	1.28
Euro to USD / Jul 10	1.08

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jul 9	5,576.98
Nasdaq / Jul 9	18,429.29
Dow Jones / Jul 9	39,291.97
India Sensex / Jul 10	79,637
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 10	41,700.39
Hang Seng / Jul 10	17,516.78
FTSE 100 / Jul 10	8,161.41
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 10	18,287.99

Item	Value
Petrol/Litre / Jul 10	265.61
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jul 10	81.21
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jul 10	18,535
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jul 10	210,562
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jul 10	2,367.97
Diesel/Litre / Jul 10	277.45

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Jul 10 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Jul 10 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Jul 10 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Jul 10 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Jul 10 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Jul 10 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Jul 10 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Jul 10 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Jul 10 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Jul 10 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Jul 10 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Jul 10 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Jul 10 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Jul 10 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Jul 10 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Jul 10 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Jul 10 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Jul 10 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Jul 10 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Jul 10 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Jul 10 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Jul 10 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Jul 10 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Jul 10 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Jul 10 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Jul 10 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Jul 10 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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