Pakistan certifies first organic cotton bale
Balochistan on Wednesday marked the certification of Pakistan's first organic cotton bale at a ceremony held at Kot Sabzal. Balochistan's Minister for Agriculture Engineer Zamrak Khan said the provincial
Balochistan on Wednesday marked the certification of Pakistan's first organic cotton bale at a ceremony held at Kot Sabzal. Balochistan's Minister for Agriculture Engineer Zamrak Khan said the provincial
Acute power and water crisis continued in Sukkur despite many protests of people as frequency and duration of loadshedding has increased making life more difficult for public. Power crisis which started three months ago has been translated into an acute water shortage in the city especially for thickly populated New Pind, Shah Khalid colony, Bihar colony, New Goth, Neem Ki Chari, Jillani road, Islam Ganj, Queens road, Ayub Gate, Takkar Muhalla areas. Residents of these areas fetch water from hand pumps in low lying areas.
As the mercury shot up to 34 degrees Celsius with 66 per cent humidity on Monday, the city experienced more than eight hours of staggered load-shedding as the privatized Karachi Electricity Supply Company faced a shortfall of 500 megawatts in meeting the demand. The power outage was caused by problems faced by the utility's Bin Qasim plant's Unit 6, but the utility's management was not prepared to admit this.
Experts at a seminar have called for making judicious use of the country's natural resources rather than banking on foreign ideas and imported fuel as such reliance has placed the country in a very difficult situation. They were speaking at the inaugural session of the two-day seminar on Energy crisis and its solutions, which was organised by the geology department of the Federal Urdu University for Arts, Science and Technology in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission on Tuesday.
As militants disrupt power supply to nearly seventy per cent population of the provincial capital, power authorities remain clueless about how to ensure an alternative power supply system to the metropolitan. Mighty towers on Sheikh Mohammadi transmission line, which bring electricity from Tarbela Power House to the 2.3 million consumers of the NWFP, are at risk most of the time owing to growing subversive activities, virtually turning it into another Sui.
The Asian Development Bank will provide a $810 million financing facility to the country
The plan, expected to be approved by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani soon, contains several suggestions contrary to government policies, like allowing import of second-hand refineries and offering them a tax holiday.
The National Electric Power Authority (Nepra) has announced simplification of licencing procedures and a major cut in the licence fee for small scale renewable energy projects.
Pakistan will need more aid from world donors as it battles militants and tries to repair its economy, US special envoy Richard Holbrooke said on Saturday. At an aid meeting in Tokyo on Friday, donor countries pledged a total of $5.28 billion to stabilise Pakistan.
Special adviser to chief minister Pervez Malik has said that the government will work on the recommendations made by experts during a two-day conference on the prevailing energy crisis. Chairing the concluding session of the conference here on Wednesday, he pledged to incorporate these recommendations into government policies.
Ms Karin Kortman, Germany