The press release added that the energy ministry submitted a summary of accrued interest with respect to the amount held in an escrow account in connection with the Reko Diq project dispute settlement. The statement highlighted that the federal and Balochistan government entered into an out-of-court dispute settlement with Tethyan Copper Company Pvt Limited with respect to the project. “In the light…
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For better or for worse, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt may be the most important iteration of the annual United Nations huddle since 2015 and Paris. Depending on how one sees it, COP 27 – the official abbreviation for the event with COP standing for Conference of the Parties – resulted in either the…
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The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet has approved sooner beginning of the work on the Reko Diq mining project, ARY News reported on Sunday. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar chaired the ECC session by video link, which approved two agenda items with regard to the Reko Diq gold and copper mining project in Balochistan. Federal Ministry of Finance has…
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