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Women in Afghanistan will be allowed to study in universities as the country seeks to rebuild after decades of war but gender-segregation and Islamic dress code will be mandatory, the Taliban’s new Higher Education minister said on Sunday. The minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, said the new Taliban government, named last week, would “start building the country on what exists today” and did not want to turn the clock back 20 years to when the movement was last in power. He said female students would be taught by women wherever possible…

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The country is on track to face another gas crisis from 13-16 September, 2021 due to re-deployment of Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) Exquisite after dry dock. A few day ago, the Board of Directors (BoD) of Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) rejected the offer of Engro of a bigger FSRU and asked the company to call its original unit, Exquisite, back to port. Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Company Limited (SNGPL), General Manager, Business Development, Corporate, Wajiha Anwar, has noted that in order to manage the gas load…

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The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Friday increased power tariff by Rs1.3771 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) on account of fuel cost adjustment (FCA) for July 2021. The Central Power Purchasing Agency-Guarantee (CPPA-G) had requested a positive FCA of Rs1.4685/kWh, having impact of Rs22.3 billion. The FCA for July 2021 will be charged in the billing month of September 2021, which will be paid by all consumer categories of XW-distribution companies, except for lifeline consumers. As per the data submitted by the CPPA-G, the total energy generated during July was…

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A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) has been called on Monday to consider approval of the oil refining policy 2021, cheaper electricity rates to domestic and commercial consumers to encourage incremental consumption for space heating in winter and retention of some old power plants ordered by the federal cabinet. To be presided over by Planning Minister Asad Umar, the meeting would also consider a policy direction for the operation of Re-gasified Liquefied Natural Gas (RLNG)-based power plants out of merit and Asian Development Bank-funded advanced metering infrastructure…

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Following the subversive activity by anti-CPEC forces on July 14, Wapda has provided the signature of Pakistan’s regular Army at the Dasu Hydropower project’s site and upgraded its security apparatus up to the satisfaction of Chinese government, but even after almost two months, China’s Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC) has not started construction work, which is questionable. Gezhouba also suspended its construction work at Mohmand Dam site for 10-12 days. However, the work on Mohmand Dam was then set in motion but on Dasu it is still suspended. The one-day delay…

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