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KARACHI: Beaches are meant to offer calm, recreation and escape from urban life, but along much of Karachi’s coastline, visitors are instead forced to navigate piles of garbage strewn across the sand. Institutional neglect, fragmented jurisdiction and poor public awareness have turned many of the city’s once-pristine coastal stretches into dumping grounds. Although a solid waste collection system exists within the Clifton Cantonment Board’s (CBC) jurisdiction at parts of Clifton Beach, cleaning is irregular and limited in scope. In municipal areas, however, there is virtually no organised cleaning mechanism, leaving…

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ISLAMABAD: The World Bank’s lending arm, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), has approved a $378.9 million loan to support a major overhaul of Pakistan’s power transmission system, aimed at strengthening grid stability, improving energy security, and enabling large-scale integration of renewable energy. The project focuses on upgrading critical transmission infrastructure, particularly through the installation of reactive power management devices. These systems are essential for stabilising the grid and facilitating the smooth evacuation of electricity from variable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. The initiative will…

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ISLAMABAD: The federal government has increased the price of high-speed diesel (HSD) by Rs11.30 per litre for the next fortnight, while keeping petrol prices unchanged, according to a notification issued by the Petroleum Division on the recommendation of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra). With the latest adjustment, the price of HSD has been fixed at Rs268.38 per litre until February 15, up from Rs257.08 during the previous 15-day period. Petrol prices, however, will remain unchanged at Rs253.17 per litre. Officials attributed the hike in diesel prices to rising…

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