CTBCM stillborn Pakistan’s energy sector stands ensnared in inefficiencies, financial instability, and a chronic inability to... Updated 16 Dec, 2024 07:58am
Editorials The appalling state of power sector EDITORIAL: The poor performance of power sector companies cost the exchequer Rs660 billion in FY24 despite a... Updated 16 Dec, 2024 07:35am
Markets PM orders reduction in power tariffs ISLAMABAD: In a bid to bring down the soaring electricity tariffs, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif directed the... Published 14 Dec, 2024 06:46am
Editorials Blaming IMF for inflation! EDITORIAL: In response to a query from a member of the Treasury benches, Tahira Aurangzeb, the Ministry of Finance... Published 13 Dec, 2024 07:27am
Opinion Who truly own the IPPs? The Pakistan power system is ever in the news – unfortunately, always in the negative sense. The power tariffs are... Published 31 Oct, 2024 06:50am
Editorials IPPs: a slippery situation? EDITORIAL: Negotiations with Independent Power Producers (IPPs) are progressing. Following the termination of... Published 25 Oct, 2024 06:39am
Opinion The spectre of very high power tariffs While the federal government must be appreciated for cancelling contracts with 5 IPPs (Independent Power Producers),... Published 17 Oct, 2024 06:34am
Opinion Net metering: Balancing the scales—I Potential promises of clean, sustainable, and long-term cost-saving alternatives have dominated the discussion about... Published 17 Oct, 2024 06:34am
Opinion Victimising local IPP sponsors risks scaring future investment The first round of IPP negotiations has concluded, resulting in the termination of five contracts through coercive... Updated 14 Oct, 2024 07:35am
Pakistan High energy prices hitting the poor hardest: World Bank ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has revealed that high energy prices in Pakistan disproportionately impact the poor, as... Published 11 Oct, 2024 06:30am
Pakistan JI chief issues stern warning to govt LAHORE: Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman has issued a stern warning to the government, urging it... Published 03 Oct, 2024 07:34am
Opinion Country’s energy woes Energy sector issues risk further deepening Pakistan’s socio-economic divides as recent years have witnessed an... Updated 30 Sep, 2024 09:02am
Opinion Economy has been nursed to some semblance of health There is some semblance of macroeconomic stability in Pakistan as inflation decreases, interest rates fall, and the... Updated 23 Sep, 2024 07:32am
Print Good news on revised IPP deals in a few weeks: power minister Awais Minister for Power says deals with IPPs will not be revised unilaterally Updated 21 Sep, 2024 05:00pm
BR Research Power tariffs: Taking the cashflow approach The first quarter of the current fiscal year has bene quite a happening one for the electricity sector. From record... Published 16 Sep, 2024 06:44am
Print Costly electricity: IPPs’ capacity charges not the sole factor: experts KARACHI: Energy experts have blamed a host of issues for the rising electricity prices, saying that the recent... Updated 13 Sep, 2024 09:27am
Print BMP assails increase in power tariffs LAHORE: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s Businessmen Panel (BMP) has condemned the... Updated 09 Sep, 2024 09:04am
Editorials Third-party audit EDITORIAL: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif while presiding over a meeting on electronic procurement, e-acquisition and... Published 28 Aug, 2024 06:45am
Business & Finance KCCI seeks similar relief like Punjab for Sindh KARACHI: President Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) Iftikhar Ahmed Sheikh, while referring to ... Published 20 Aug, 2024 06:55am
Print PM says power tariffs to be revised downward soon Will unveil government’s economic programme to the nation in the next few days Updated 15 Aug, 2024 10:27am
Business & Finance Traders considering stepping up protest against power tariffs KARACHI: Traders have continued rallying to galvanize support for their demands for ending oppressive taxes and high... Published 11 Aug, 2024 03:28am
Pakistan JI says govt has agreed to reduce power tariffs; protest deferred ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, Friday, while announcing to defer his party’s... Published 10 Aug, 2024 06:51am
Editorials Power sector: unanswered questions EDITORIAL: The power sector problems have compounded over time due to unplanned and expensive growth in power... Published 06 Aug, 2024 06:40am
Business & Finance Steel industry: govt urged to revisit agreements with IPPs ISLAMABAD: Exorbitant power tariffs and imposition of unjustified high-capacity charges have badly affected the ... Published 01 Aug, 2024 07:27am
Pakistan Miftah Ismail says fiscally possible to remove electricity taxes without disturbing primary surplus Former finance minister says the reduction in revenue collection from eliminating taxes can be offset by reducing funds allocated to the Public Sector Development Programme Published 29 Jul, 2024 09:27pm
Pakistan Protest continues against inflation, hike in power tariffs RAWALPINDI: The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), on Saturday, continued its sit-in at Liaquat Bagh for the second day to press... Published 28 Jul, 2024 06:49am
BR Research Power tariffs: A quarter’s respite Two days after the announcement of base electricity tariffs – the government caved in. The revised prayer now allows... Published 12 Jul, 2024 08:47am
Pakistan JI to stage sit-in against power tariffs on 12th LAHORE: Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Hafiz Naeem Ur Rehman has called on the government to reduce electricity tariffs,... Published 11 Jul, 2024 06:16am
Markets Pakistan’s economic crisis is largely due to its power sector: experts propose bypassing govt Pakistan, the world’s fifth most populous country, has a power sector problem and experts believe this is a core... Published 10 Jul, 2024 08:23pm
BR Research Power tariffs:Protected take the beating The electricity base tariffs for 91 percent of domestic power consumers have been revised from a minimum of 26... Published 09 Jul, 2024 08:26am
Sanctions on Pakistan’s missile program not meant to ‘color other areas of cooperation’: US State Dept