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The power struggle: navigating Pakistan’s energy crisis

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

Published 03 Sep, 2024 07:01am

Opinion

Task force on IPPs: another wild goose chase?

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

Published 12 Aug, 2024 06:36am

Opinion

Begrudging private sector

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

Published 09 Aug, 2024 06:56am

Opinion

IPPs and capacity payments

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

Updated 01 Aug, 2024 07:31am

Pakistan

Govt urged to revisit contracts with IPPs

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

Published 29 Jul, 2024 06:37am

Markets

PKI urges govt to stop making capacity payments to IPPs

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

Published 25 Jul, 2024 06:24am

Business & Finance

FPCCI demands govt review IPP agreements

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

Published 23 Jul, 2024 08:10am

Business & Finance

PYMA urges govt to reconsider deals with IPPS

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

Published 23 Jul, 2024 08:03am

Markets

Govt urged to renegotiate power tariff with IPPs

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

Published 23 Jul, 2024 07:29am

Markets

FY24 power generation drops 2pc YoY

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

Published 23 Jul, 2024 06:34am

Business & Finance

FPCCI demands reviewing agreements with IPPs

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

Updated 22 Jul, 2024 07:57am

Govt to review existing power purchase agreements

PM Shehbaz constitutes Inter-Ministerial Committee to review existing PPAs template to protect consumers against losses caused by inadequacies on part of power producers

Updated 20 Jul, 2024 05:42pm

Markets

Power sector woes: IPP agreements benefit companies but not consumers, Dr Gohar Ejaz says

Former caretaker minister for Commerce and Industries Dr Gohar Ejaz has said that the agreements with the...

Published 15 Jul, 2024 10:23pm

Editorials

The illogical vilification of investors

EDITORIAL: Bashing IPPs (Independent Power Producers) – especially those under the CPEC (China Pakistan Economic...

Updated 15 Jul, 2024 08:22am

BMP for revisiting power purchase contracts with a view to reducing energy cost

LAHORE: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s Businessmen Panel (BMP) has stressed the need...

Updated 15 Jul, 2024 09:04am

To be conducted by PPIB, CPPA-G and Nepra: Govt orders ‘audit’ of agreements with IPPs

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Power Sardar Awais Khan Leghari on Friday ordered the audit of dozens of IPPs (Independent...

Updated 13 Jul, 2024 08:53am

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

Business & Finance

Govt should cancel all agreements with IPPs, says FPCCI leader

KARACHI: Saquib Fayyaz Magoon, Acting President FPCCI, has said that federal government should cancel all agreements...

Published 06 Jul, 2024 06:48am

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

Opinion

Capacity payments conundrum

The matter of increased capacity payments to power plants has sparked a heated controversy. In recent years, these...

Updated 19 Oct, 2023 05:34am

PKR slide has doubled capacity payments: PD

Power Secretary Rashid Mahmood Langrial explains that foreign-funded dollar-denominated IPPs have contributed the most

Updated 19 Sep, 2023 10:56am

Moving from failure to failure successfully?

Opinion

The Power Division proposes implementation on 'old proposed measures with new words' to the caretaker government with the assertion that now failure is no option

Updated 11 Sep, 2023 10:00am

Business & Finance

Surge in power sector capacity payments ‘haemorrhaging’ government finances: Tarin

Finance minister says government paid Rs850 billion this year alone for electricity which 'we don’t even use'

Updated 17 Mar, 2022 05:37pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Sep 6	278.65
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Sep 6	278.45
USD to Japanese Yen / Sep 6	142.03
USD to Swiss Franc / Sep 6	0.84
Pound Sterling to USD / Sep 6	1.31
Euro to USD / Sep 6	1.11

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Sep 6	5,408.42
India Sensex / Sep 6	81,183.93
Tokyo Nikkei / Sep 6	36,391.47
Nasdaq / Sep 6	16,690.83
Hang Seng / Sep 6	17,444.30
FTSE 100 / Sep 6	8,181.47
Dow Jones / Sep 6	40,345.41
Germany DAX 30 / Sep 6	18,301.90

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Sep 6	67.67
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Sep 6	227,970.30
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Sep 6	2,497.41
Cotton US¢/pound / Sep 6	67.88
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Sep 7	18,535
Petrol/Litre / Sep 8	259.10

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Sep 8 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Sep 8 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Sep 8 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Sep 8 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Sep 8 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Sep 8 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Sep 8 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Sep 8 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Sep 8 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Sep 8 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Sep 8 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Sep 8 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Sep 8 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Sep 8 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Sep 8 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Sep 8 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Sep 8 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Sep 8 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Sep 8 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Sep 8 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Sep 8 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Sep 8 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Sep 8 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Sep 8 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Sep 8 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Sep 8 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Sep 8 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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