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Capacity payments & minimum tax: IPPs flag concern over ITO reinterpretation

Updated 05 Mar, 2026 09:06am

ISLAMABAD: The country’s Independent Power Producers (IPPs) are raising concerns over the reinterpretation of the...

Increased per-unit power costs: Nepra report identifies reason

Updated 27 Feb, 2026 09:04am

ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has stated that underutilization of power...

Steel producers body wants power supplied to industry at lower cost

Updated 14 Jan, 2026 08:53am

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Association of Large Steel Producers (PALSP) has approached the Federal Minister for Power,...

From energy debt to solar discipline: a lesson from China

Published 07 Nov, 2025 06:27am

The chronic energy crisis driven by soaring tariffs, burgeoning circular debt, and heavy dependence on imported ...

QTA for Q1FY26: FPCCI rejects proposed positive adjustment

Updated 29 Oct, 2025 08:31am

ISLAMABAD: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has rejected the proposed positive...

Cutting take-or-pay liabilities: PD told to submit plan for RLNG lifting at Rs2000/MMBTU

Updated 18 Oct, 2025 09:49am

Move comes amid concerns that domestic gas fields are being shut down to accommodate surplus, high-cost RLNG in other sectors, including residential consumers

Power market liberalisation

Published 26 Sep, 2025 06:23am

EDITORIAL: Pakistan’s power sector is inching closer to a long-delayed transition from the single-buyer model to...

Auditor General of Pakistan asked to conduct IPPs’ audit

Updated 19 Aug, 2025 11:20am

Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee launches renewed push for accountability in Pakistan’s power sector

Power sector sitting on ticking time bomb

Updated 19 Jul, 2025 08:13am

“The off-grid solar revolution” and “the surplus-grid capacity crisis” constitute a ticking time bomb for...

Fixing power sector before it sinks the economy

Updated 18 Apr, 2025 07:03am

Pakistan’s power sector has transformed from an essential utility into a systemic liability. Instead of powering...

Mahl HPP: CSAIL seeks 3-year LoI extension

Updated 02 Dec, 2024 02:58pm

Government considers different options to slash the number of committed power projects of 10,000MW

Revised PPAs inked with about one dozen IPPs

Updated 30 Nov, 2024 04:34pm

Government’s energy task force engaged in ‘hard talks’ with IPPs of 1994 and 2002, who are still resisting on the proposed cut in their profits, financial gains of the past and interest on late payment

IPP claims contracts being negotiated ‘forcibly’

Updated 08 Nov, 2024 09:42am

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

Contracts with 8 more IPPs renegotiated, NA told

Updated 26 Oct, 2024 12:26pm

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

The power sector challenges

Published 25 Oct, 2024 07:02am

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

Focus on structural reforms

Published 13 Oct, 2024 06:46am

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

Govt ends deals with five private IPPs

Updated 11 Oct, 2024 09:12am

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

Building a resilient energy sector

Updated 23 Sep, 2024 07:38am

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

IPPs and capacity payments – how to deal with the challenge

Published 10 Sep, 2024 06:32am

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

The power struggle: navigating Pakistan’s energy crisis

Published 03 Sep, 2024 07:01am

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

Task force on IPPs: another wild goose chase?

Published 12 Aug, 2024 06:36am

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

Begrudging private sector

Published 09 Aug, 2024 06:56am

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

IPPs and capacity payments

Updated 01 Aug, 2024 07:31am

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

Govt urged to revisit contracts with IPPs

Published 29 Jul, 2024 06:37am

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

PKI urges govt to stop making capacity payments to IPPs

Published 25 Jul, 2024 06:24am

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

FPCCI demands govt review IPP agreements

Published 23 Jul, 2024 08:10am

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

PYMA urges govt to reconsider deals with IPPS

Published 23 Jul, 2024 08:03am

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

Govt urged to renegotiate power tariff with IPPs

Published 23 Jul, 2024 07:29am

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

FY24 power generation drops 2pc YoY

Published 23 Jul, 2024 06:34am

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

FPCCI demands reviewing agreements with IPPs

Updated 22 Jul, 2024 07:57am

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

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jul 17	278.16
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 17	277.96
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 17	162.40
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 17	0.81
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 17	1.35
Euro to USD / Jul 17	1.14
SOFR % / Jul 17	3.60

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jul 17	7,457.69
India Sensex / Jul 17	78,151.45
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 17	64,141.12
Nasdaq / Jul 17	25,520.24
Hang Seng / Jul 17	24,562.24
FTSE 100 / Jul 17	10,600.37
Dow Jones / Jul 17	52,146.42
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 17	24,830.98
France CAC40 / Jul 17	8,338.81

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jul 17	82.49
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jul 17	18,780
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jul 17	361,656
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jul 17	4,017.39
Cotton US¢/pound / Jul 17	78.63
Petrol/Litre / Jul 19	316.15
Diesel/Litre / Jul 19	354.35

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Dadabhoy Cement / Jul 17 Dadabhoy Cement Industries Limited(DBCI)	17.01 ▲ 1.55 (10.03%)
Ruby Textile / Jul 17 Ruby Textile Mills Limited(RUBY)	17.59 ▲ 1.6 (10.01%)
Crescent Cotton / Jul 17 Crescent Cotton Mills Limited(CCM)	53.68 ▲ 4.88 (10%)
National Silk / Jul 17 The National Silk & Rayon Mills Limited(NSRM)	272.21 ▲ 24.75 (10%)
Suhail Jute / Jul 17 Suhail Jute Mills Limited(SUHJ)	223.96 ▲ 20.36 (10%)
Baba Farid Sugar / Jul 17 Baba Farid Sugar Mills Limited(BAFS)	418.56 ▲ 38.05 (10%)
Shadman Cotton / Jul 17 Shadman Cotton Mills Limited(SHCM)	50.61 ▲ 4.6 (10%)
Asia Ins. / Jul 17 Asia Insurance Company Limited(ASIC)	34.45 ▲ 3.13 (9.99%)
Olympia Mills / Jul 17 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	107.58 ▲ 9.65 (9.85%)
TPL Trakker Ltd / Jul 17 TPL Trakker Limited(TPLT)	27.91 ▲ 2.5 (9.84%)

Stock	Price
Tariq Corp. (R) / Jul 17 Tariq Corporation Limited(Right)(TCORPR2)	2.70 ▼ -0.89 (-24.79%)
First Punjab Modaraba / Jul 17 First Punjab Modaraba(FPJM)	11.04 ▼ -1.23 (-10.02%)
Khairpur Sug. / Jul 17 Khairpur Sugar Mills Limited(KPUS)	1,871.47 ▼ -207.94 (-10%)
Service Textile / Jul 17 Service Industries Textiles Limited(SERT)	62.27 ▼ -6.92 (-10%)
S.G.Power / Jul 17 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	97.59 ▼ -10.84 (-10%)
Mughal Iron & Steel(C) / Jul 17 Mughal Iron & Steel Industries Ltd (C)(MUGHALC)	63 ▼ -6.99 (-9.99%)
Fateh Sports / Jul 17 Fateh Sports Wear Limited(FSWL)	150.29 ▼ -16.65 (-9.97%)
Paramount Spinning / Jul 17 Paramount Spinning Mills Limited(PASM)	10.91 ▼ -1.1 (-9.16%)
Power Cem(Pref) / Jul 17 Power Cement (Pref)(POWERPS)	23.62 ▼ -2.36 (-9.08%)
Supernet Tech. / Jul 17 Supernet Technologies Limited(STL)	41.34 ▼ -3.72 (-8.26%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jul 17 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	86,491,992 ▲ 0.19
TPL Properties / Jul 17 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	62,545,194 ▼ -0.67
Pak Refinery / Jul 17 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	38,580,070 ▲ 2.94
WorldCall Telecom / Jul 17 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	23,499,606 ▼ -0.04
K-Electric Ltd. / Jul 17 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	18,396,866 ▼ -0.24
Lotte Chemical / Jul 17 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	17,830,259 ▼ -1.32
Hascol Petrol / Jul 17 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	14,534,208 ▼ -0.33
B.O.Punjab / Jul 17 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	12,503,494 ▼ -0.51
TPL REIT Fund I / Jul 17 TPL REIT Fund I(TPLRF1)	11,458,248 ▼ -0.29
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Jul 17 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	10,427,355 ▲ 0.51

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