How a 30 year old became a media tycoon

Deep into the winding, messy streets of a Lahore township, on one end of a broken road stands a building five stories...

PM takes notice of challenges in energy sector

Calls important meeting to get sectoral briefing on power, petroleum, interior and industries

A brief history: The rot in our DISCOs

Something is seriously wrong with how power distribution works in this country and the DISCOs are at the heart of it

Consumers lose money amid falling demand for old 100-dollar bills

Moneychangers, banks exploiting situation as regulator looks the other way

Iranian power firm seeks PM’s intervention for unpaid NTDC dues

Despite completing Pak-Iran 220KV transmission line for Gwadar, the company has only received 40% of the contracted payment

Thinking outside the wrapper: How local brands like Candi can compete with Lotus

The local versions at times taste pretty much the same as their expensive, imported, counterparts. So why aren’t they creating ripples?

Pakistan’s electricity is now less import dependent. But this is why it is still not cheap

Cleaner, more domestic, but not (yet) cheaper: the state of Pakistani electricity

The cost of non-renewable energy and missed opportunities– K-Electric’s failure to deploy renewable energy is expensive

K-Electric could have saved over $200 million had it adopted renewable energy in its generation fleet

Let there be crude; Pakistan, China ink petroleum sector agreement

The agreement is set to increase PRL’s refining capacity from 50,000 bpd to 100,000 bpd

What in the world is a fuel charge adjustment and why is it swelling your bill? 

The CPPA has requested the highest fuel charge adjustment for 2023 for December’s electricity bill 

Musadik promises to keep Rs2310 billion circular debt in check

Outlines his plans to curb the growing circular debt problem in power sector

Three major banks are up for sale. Who will buy them?

For the first time in Pakistani history, three perfectly healthy and viable banks are simultaneously up for sale. None of them is...

CCI may approve Pakistan LPG Policy 2024

ISLAMABAD: In order to increase the share of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in the overall energy mix as a replacement of natural...

Did Big Textile’s retail pivot work?

Ten years after the large textile manufacturers made major moves to expand their domestic retail presence, which players have emerged as the largest ones in the Pakistani domestic retail landscape?

Prime Minister to personally head Cabinet Committee on Energy

In the absence of the prime minister, the Minister for Petroleum will chair the meetings of the CCoE