Karachi—Minister for water and power Raja Pervez
Ashraf has said he still stands by his stance
about elimination of load shedding by the end of
this December adding energy crisis will soon be
overcome through rental power projects. “I have
not said any thing about continuation of load
shedding beyond this December. I still stand by
stance for ending load shedding by this
December”, he said this while addressing a press
conference with Sindh chief minister Qaim Ali
Shah after the meeting of Thar coal energy board
here Monday.
Islamabad —Libya has shown interest for
cooperation in multiple technical and
engineering sectors. According to sources in the
Ministry of Water and Power, the ground for such
a mutually beneficial cooperation was laid
during the Prime Minister’s recent visit to
Libya. This was followed by mutual consultations
between the two countries at appropriate levels.
Islamabad—International Organization for
Migrants (IOM) in its recent campaign has called
upon consumers to help end demand for exploited
labor worldover. “Eliminating demand for
trafficked and exploited labour to provide cheap
goods and huge profits desired by consumers and
businesses the world over is critical,” the IOM
emphasized in its campaign started on Monday.
Karachi—Brisk shipping activity was observed
at the Port where four ships scheduled to
load/offload Containers, Cement, Palm oil and
Furnace oil were berthed at Qasim International
Containers Terminal, Multi Purpose Terminal,
liquid Cargo Terminal and FOTCO Oil Terminal
respectively on Sunday. Meanwhile, four more
ships carrying Containers, Chemicals and Palm
oil also arrives at outer anchorage of Port
Qasim during last 24 hours.
INDIA said today that security considerations
were delaying its participation in the
tri-nation Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas
pipeline, but it had not shut its doors on the
project. “Its not that we’re not interested and
we certainly haven’t shut the door on it. It’s
true we’ve pushed it to the back burner,”
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi
Tharoor said on an online radio show here.
Underlining the need of India’s energy security,
the minister said India continued to have
legitimate security concerns that needed to be
addressed before the deal went through, so that
New Delhi was certain that its resources
remained safe.
