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Three naval officers promoted to rear admiral rank: Pakistan Navy The Pakistan Navy (PN) has announced promotion of three commodores to the rank of rear admiral. A statement issued by the PN’s media wing on Thursday said commodores Javed Iqbal, Muhammad Sohail Arshad and Salman Ilyas have been...

Provisional licences of virtual LNG pipelines granted ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) on Thursday granted provisional licences of virtual liquefied natural gas (LNG) pipelines to two private companies — Daewoo Gas and LNG Easy — for supply of the fuel through bowsers to...

Supply Lines Food-Choked Ports Are a Drag on Pakistan’s Exporters Pakistan’s rush to import items to tame Asia’s fastest inflation is clogging the nation’s busiest ports and is hiding something else in plain sight — exporters’ pain. Snaking traffic jams of trucks on the British-era Napier...

What’s behind the growing Azerbaijan-Pakistan-Turkey friendship? All three Muslim countries continue to back each other on matters of national interest. When a country fights a war for its territorial integrity, it counts on every form of support it can get - especially military and diplomatic...

Pakistan officials meet Friday to discuss reopening schools The country earlier announced reopening educational institutes from Jan 18 A meeting of Pakistan education and health ministers will be held Friday to review the coronavirus situation and subsequent reopening of educational institutes...

How a multilingual education model can help Pakistan increase literacy A new report by The Citizens Foundation (TCF) and Thar Foundation has pointed out how countries like Pakistan — where people speak a host of regional and local languages — can adopt a ‘mother tongue-based multilingual...

Japan takes measures to curb illegal car trade in Pakistan ISLAMABAD: Japanese government has swung into action to crack down on clearance of imported cars on forged and fake documents in Pakistan, it said on Thursday. The Embassy of Pakistan in Tokyo, in a statement, said it is taking...

That it is hardly surprising at all, infact it is basically well known. The three major takeaways are the following. 1. That the corruption drive was politically motivated and we have seen that whenever anybody comes forward with the slogan of cleaning up this country, it is often...

NAB is lying to the people of Pakistan: Broadsheet CEO Calls the institution ‘a conspiracy to defraud Pakistanis’ Broadsheet CEO Kaveh Mousavi has rebutted the claims made by the Pakistani government, particularly its National Accountability Bureau, following the seizure of $28.7 million from...

Senior Afghan politician to arrive in Pakistan today for three-day visit Afghan High Peace Council Chairman and leader of the Hizb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami (Afghan Unity Party), Mohammad Karim Khalili, along with a delegation, will arrive in Pakistan on Monday (today) for a three-day visit, the Foreign...

Pakistan to develop its own messaging app: IT minister The app will include features such as messages, voice and video calls KARACHI: Pakistan has decided to develop a world-class social networking app with state-of-the-art security features, which will include all modern communication features...

UK’s vacation ownership firm to go public in Pakistan KARACHI: A UK-based vacation ownership company has planned to go public in Pakistan’s capital market next year as it aims to become the first listed scrip from the country’s hospitality and fractional investment sector, its official said on...

Pakistan’s vaccination plan for Covid-19 Pakistan has set a target of vaccinating 70 million people to achieve ‘herd immunity’ Does Pakistan have a vaccination plan for Covid-19? Notwithstanding the global efforts to ensure fair access to the Covid-19 vaccine, it is not a level playing field...

PM Imran launches Pakistan's first instant digital payment system to boost formal economy Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday launched the country's first instant digital payment system called "Raast", which he said would boost the country's formal economy. Addressing the launch ceremony in...

Indeed. The entire grid needs a massive update. We have a few major problems in our energy sector that needs immediate solutions. Growing urbanization is creating greater demands for energy and creating a burden on the grid. This is especially true for growing CPEC projects. Even the durand...

Indeed so and while there are new plants that do provide such energy but they are like a drop in the ocean that is needed to power pakistan. The sheet population and growing urbanization and poor transmission lines, demand huge amounts of energy that are only powered using either hydro or...

We desperately need more dams and other sources of energy. We are heavily reliant on two major dams. Mangla and tarbela.

Tarbela tripped which made the substations trip causing shortages to all regions which used energy provided from tarbela dam. Well Lahore got it's light at 8am but sheikhupura at 1pm but at 1:44 it left again. Most likely another fault at the substations.

Lolzzz the entire night was filled with coup memes. And slot of other memes.

Major power breakdown plunges entire country into darkness A massive power breakdown plunged the entire country into darkness minutes before midnight on Saturday, Energy Minister Omar Ayub confirmed in a statement. The blackout was initially reported on social media by residents of major urban...