As the masses swelter in the heat, the power remained off even as the mercury kept rising, PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif, the Prime Minister-elect, continued preparations to tackle the energy crisis as soon as he came to office, expected to be around the end of the month. On Tuesday, he not only ...

LAHORE : Business community has congratulated Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, Hamza Shahbaz Sharif and recently elected parliamentarians on Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz platform on their historic triumphs in elections 2013 and hoped that PML-N governments in Centre and ...

Leader of the opposition in Senate, Senator Ishaq Dar met US Ambassador Robin Raphel in his chamber at Parliament house here Wednesday.Both sides discussed bilateral issues and emphasized the need for further enhancing cooperation in various fields. Dar stressed the need for US assistance in ...

Reportedly, Mian Nawaz Sharif is visualising a drastic cut in the period of the enervating power outages within barely 30 days of his assumption of the charge as Prime Minister. Talking to a private TV channel, he said that overcoming energy crisis would be his first priority and work would be ...

LahoreThe electricity shortfall rose to 9,000MW on Monday, forcing the power managers to increase outages up to 18 hours across the country. The urban areas were badly hit by crisis and facing upto 16-18 hours loadshedding while there was virtually no electricity in rural areas of the country. The ...

The federal ministry of finance on Tuesday released Rs15 billion to the ministry of water and power with an aim to ease severe crisis of power outages in the country.The amount has been released on instructions of the caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso.Sources said that the amount will ...

LAHORE - Caretaker Federal Minister for Water and Power Dr Musadiq Malik said shortage of funds and mismanagement were responsible for loadshedding.Addressing a joint press conference with Federal Minister for Gas and Petroleum Sohail Wajahat Ali Siddiqui at Wapda House here on Sunday, he said ...

LAHORE - Former Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has accused President Asif Ali Zardari of conspiring against Punjab to cause massive deaths due to dengue fever.Addressing a Press conference here on Thursday, Shahbaz alleged that Asif Ali Zardari had asked the foreign doctors to ...

TRIPOLI Libya’s defence minister resigned on Tuesday but then changed his mind and the army chief of staff was sacked, as a political crisis deepened over gunmen besieging government ministries.“I find myself compelled, despite opposition from my colleagues in recent days, to present ...

WASHINGTON - A US government-appointed panel urged Washington Tuesday to step up pressure on Pakistan over religious freedom, warning that risks to its minorities have reached a crisis level.In an annual report, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom also raised concerns about what it ...

rawalpindi - When the gas and electricity go off, a textiles factory in Rawalpindi is forced to burn wood to manufacture bed sheets, a sign of just how abysmal Pakistan's energy crisis has become.Forget Taliban attacks, chronic power outages are arguably the single biggest voter complaint, casting ...

Out of many problems, the major problem which our country is facing is the threat from terrorists to our politicians. Political parties especially ANP, PPP and MQM have security threats from TTP and this also halts the process of the election campaigns. Caretaker government is making efforts it ...

paul gottinger - Things seemed to have calmed on the Korean peninsula for now.  This despite the fact that the U.S. and South Korea are continuing their outrageously provocative Foal Eagle “war games” through April 30.  The Foal Eagle is one of the largest and longest military ...

islamabad - Former Federal Minister, Dr Asim Hussain on Tuesday claimed that former government had taken effective steps to meet the demand of electricity in the country.Hydel power plants were producing 6000 MW electricity in Pakistan, he added.He stressed on the need to utilize the coal for ...

The PPP is naturally apprehensive about the adverse impact of the unprecedented loadshedding during its tenure on its electoral fortunes in the coming elections. In frustration, it is making desperate efforts to mislead the nation through expensive full-page advertisements that “if the PML-N ...

Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan has said that if voted to power‚ his party would resolve the energy crisis within the next 2.5 years.Addressing a rally in Renala Khurd, he asked the youth of the country to come forward and convince all including their elders to make a new ...

LAHORE - Stressing joint efforts to overcome energy crisis, Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi has said the problem made the life of common people miserable.During a meeting with a delegation of industrialists led by Gohar Ijaz, former chairman of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) at ...

islamabad - Pakistan and Azerbaijan are two Muslim brother countries, having profound love and regard for each other, therefore, Azerbaijan strongly desires to further enhance its bilateral, economic and commercial ties with Pakistan. These remarks were made by Dashgin Shikarov, Ambassador of ...

islamabad -ahmad ahmadani - Outgoing PPP-led government at the fag end of her constitutional tenure had desperately changed the sectoral priority order in Natural Gas Load Management only to benefit influential industrialists, which has contributed to worsen the power loadshedding across the ...

No sigh of relief for people of Pakistan as the ongoing power crisis has intensified even further, increasing the duration of power outages from 14 to 18 hours in many cities.According to PEPCO, electricity generation remained 8,970MW against the demand of 13,000MW.Urban centres are enduring 14-18 ...

Korea, wrote the famed German expert on geopolitics, Baron Haushofer, a century ago, was one of the world’s five most strategic areas. So it remains today, as China, Russia, Japan and the US vie for influence on the peninsula and the waters around it.The latest crisis over Korea began in ...

LAHORE -  Biogas which is produced by the fermentation of organic matter may help meet the persistent energy crisis in the country as its cost is 35 to 50 per cent less than charcoal, kerosene oil and firewood to get energy. These views were expressed by chief scientific officer of ...

ISLAMABAD - With unrelenting efforts of Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso prospects of release of funds to tackle power crisis has brighten as high ups of the Finance Ministry Tuesday pledged to release first installment of Rs.10 billion soon.The premier on April 10 announced Rs.20 billion to ...

LAHORE - Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Monday called for barter trade with Iran, as smuggling is not only widening the trade deficit but also causing huge loss to the exchequer.LCCI President Farooq Iftikhar was talking to a 10-member Pakistan Plastic Manufacturers Association ...

KARACHI - Experts have emphasised the need for introducing more independent power producers to curb hour-long unannounced power outages across the country.Speakers expressed these views at the 6th International Power Conference and Exhibition on Emerging Energy Mix for Sustainable Power Generation. ...

ISLAMABAD - The All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) on Wednesday submitted proposals to Ministry of Petroleum to tame energy crisis that has become a major threat also affecting national growth drastically.Petroleum Minister Sohail Wajahat H. Siddiqui while receiving a detailed presentation from ...

ISLAMABAD - With the start of hot summer, mounting circular debt might force some power plants to shut down their operation of electricity generation in upcoming days, worsening load-shedding crisis across the country. Reliable sources in water & power ministry disclosed that Pakistan Electric ...

ISLAMABAD - Caretaker Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Sohail Wajahat Siddiqui has initiated consultations with stakeholders to resolve energy crisis through short-term measures to end sufferings of masses and ensure national development.  In this regard, he held meeting with a ...

PESHAWAR - Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) Chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao on Tuesday said that holding free, fair and transparent elections was the only way to steer the country out of the prevailing crises.Speaking at a press conference at the party’s provincial secretariat in Hayatabad, he said ...

ISLAMABAD – Many thousands of families from Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency have been forced to leave their homes following heavy fighting between rival militant groups. The displacement has resulted in significant unmet humanitarian needs. The Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) Disaster ...