A project that combines satellite images, mapping technologies and the local knowledge of villagers to help build climate-proof settlements in disaster-prone areas of Pakistan won an international award on Thursday. More than 1 million people have benefited from the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) Pakistan project, which was a gold prize winner at the World Habitat Awards that are…
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ISLAMABAD: The cabinet’s economic decision-making body on Thursday did not approve a subsidy of Rs9.5 billion under the prime minister’s industrial package that the Power Division sought to pick the difference between peak and off-peak electricity rates. The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet was not sure about the base of the Rs9.5 billion subsidy claim for the period…
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RAWALPINDI: For the first time, an air quality monitoring mobile station was used to monitor air pollution in one of the busiest areas of the city, the Katcheri Chowk, on Wednesday. Results of the monitoring of pollution in the air from various areas of the garrison city are expected on Thursday (today), officials told The Express Tribune. The Automatic Air…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will launch a Covid-19 vaccination drive in the second quarter of 2021, providing the vaccine to all citizens free of charge, Nausheen Hamid, parliamentary secretary on Health said on Wednesday. In a tweet and a separate media talk, Hamid said that the federal cabinet had approved initial funds to purchase the vaccine. “PTI government will provide the coronavirus…
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There are vast trade and investment opportunities in Pakistan, especially in Karachi, which is an international economic centre, said British Deputy High Commissioner Mike Nithariankis. He stated that the UK mission was further trying to promote economic cooperation between the two countries including a boost to trade and investment. “My job is to bring more British people to see enormous…
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The government is set to remove the moratorium on new gas connections to industrial and captive power consumers in Balochistan. The Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCOE) will take decision on the matter in its meeting. Owing to the increasing gap between demand and supply of natural gas in the country, the then prime minister, in his directive on April 18,…
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IF you’re confused by all the talk around the LNG import issue these days, there is one thing to focus on which helps explain it all. Winter is peak season for gas demand, there are always shortages as everyone knows for many years now, and arrangements for LNG imports for December, January and February have to be made months in…
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ISLAMABAD: In a major development, the Hubco Power Plant in Balochistan that operates only on one percent of its capacity in the entire year and the government owes it Rs260 billion as capacity payments for next seven years, has offered the federal government to buy it out for Rs65 billion. Tabish Gauhar, Special Assistant to Prime Minister, confirmed to The…
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Pfizer and BioNTech say they’ve won permission on Wednesday for emergency use of their Covid-19 vaccine in Britain, the world’s first coronavirus shot that’s backed by rigorous science — and a major step toward eventually ending the pandemic. The move makes Britain one of the first countries to begin vaccinating its population as it tries to curb Europe’s deadliest Covid-19…
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KARACHI: The country’s exports in November rose 7.2 per cent year-on-year to $2.156 billion from $2.011bn in November 2019, Adviser to PM on Commerce and Investment Abdul Razak Dawood said in a tweet on Tuesday. Exports during the month under review were highest in 30 months since peaking at $2.227bn in May 2018. “I would like to share that in…
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