A three-day international conference on energy crisis and opportunities for power generation in the country will open on the International Islamic University’s Faisal Masjid campus today (Monday).
Pakistani and international experts and researchers will attend the event titled ‘power generation systems and renewable energy technologies.
The conference has been organised by the IIU Department of Mechanical Engineering.
According to organisers, ...
N leader Ahsan Iqbal stated on Monday that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s outlined issues in last night’s address already exist in manifestos of all parties.
During a presser, the former interior minister condemned the new government stating that they are unable to comprehend the idea of politics or state mechanisms.
Adding that the new government is unskilled and unacquainted, they will need to ‘go through kindergarten.’
Furthermore he pointed o...
Barrister Syed Ali Zafar, the Minister for Energy while chairing a meeting with officials of the Ministry presented guidelines for power sector for consideration of the incoming Government.
He said that during his very short tenure as a Minister of Energy he felt that to solve the energy crisis in the country, immediate reforms are required in the energy sector, says a press release issued here.
Zafar said that the guidelines are prepared with th...
Cheap, environment friendly and renewable energy is imperative for sustained industrial development however; we must take immediate and appropriate measures to increase its production in addition to ensuring its conservation, said Shabbir Hussain Chawla President Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FCCI).
He was addressing the opening session of a 3-day workshop on "Energy conservation and efficiency" specially designed for technical industri...
In March 2018, Tarbela and Mangla dams, two of Pakistan’s largest water storage reservoirs, simultaneously neared dead level for the first time in 15 years, coinciding with a prolonged heat wave across the country. Citizens responded with a plethora of short-term water conservation measures to tide over the dry spell until the return of the annual monsoons which would partially replenish Pakistan’s rivers. However, acute recurring water shortages may heral...
With less than two weeks to go until Pakistan’s general elections scheduled for July 25, among the mainstream political parties only the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) have released their manifestoes.
Nevertheless, political parties are laying stress on environmental issues in their public rallies. Recently Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairman of the PPP, spoke about sea intrusion in the Indus Delta. The PPP gov...
Amid drastic water situation in the country, Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar said on Saturday that a consensus has been developed for immediate construction of two new dams.
The top judge announced the good news during the hearing of the suo moto case related to waiving of Rs54 billion loans by 222 defaulters during the government of former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.
He said that the consensus was developed during the key m...
Around the region of Heroshah, previously arid hills are now covered with forest as far as the horizon. In northwestern Pakistan, hundreds of millions of trees have been planted to fight deforestation.
In 2015 and 2016, some 16,000 labourers planted more than 9,00,000 fast-growing eucalyptus trees at regular, geometric intervals in Heroshah — and the titanic task is just a fraction of the effort across the Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
“Before it w...
Caretaker Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting, National History and Literary Heritage Syed Ali Zafar Tuesday said power loadshedding would be controlled by the end of June and July onwards, as the weather and water situation in dams were improving considerably.
Addressing a press conference here flanked by Finance Minister Shamshad Akhtar, he said reasons for loadshedding were lesser water in dams, change in demand and supply situation, trans...
At the Millennium Summit, the United Nations (UN) addressed the effects of economic water scarcity by listing safe drinking water as an International Development Goal. The goal aimed to achieve reduction in the percentage of population without sustainable drinking water by the year 2015. Pakistan failed to reach the goal and the UN replaced Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Pakistan must now pursue water
