As night fell, 30-year-old Aisar Uddin called on his families in Hunza as usual. This time though, he was making sure whether his sister had received the money he had sent back home for her school fees.
Unlike some of his friends who lost their jobs due to the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic and have been suffering till now, a stable income Uddin earns from the job in Port Qasim power plant in the southern port city of Karachi enables him to support his families and survive this hard time.
In a year when the world was hit by the pandemic, factories have stopped roaring, people stayed at home, fearing of contracting the virus. However, projects of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) have kept proceeding, offering a beacon of hope for Pakistan that has been longing for a recovery from the pandemic and a take-off of its economy.
National
January 1, 2021
LAHORE: The energy sector should be depoliticized and people having conflict of interests should not be appointed in any of the key posts in the sector. This will help end incompetency, nepotism and favoritism in the energy sector and lead to proper development of the sector.
These views were expressed by the energy sector experts responding to the questions speaking at a webinar at Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) here on Thursday.
The energy experts including Senior Research Economist Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) Afia Malik, Energy Specialist of Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) Dr Hina Aslam and Energy Research Center COMSATS Dr Iftikhar Ahmed suggested that the energy policy should be made focusing on available indigenous resources instead of import-base fuels such as RLNG and imported coals which resulted in increase in import bill and high cost of the energy. Additionally, import-base energy generat
2021-01-01 09:05:37 GMT2021-01-01 17:05:37(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Deng Kaiyin
ISLAMABAD, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) As night fell, 30-year-old Aisar Uddin called on his families in Hunza as usual. This time though, he was making sure whether his sister had received the money he had sent back home for her school fees.
Unlike some of his friends who lost their jobs due to the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic and have been suffering till now, a stable income Uddin earns from the job in Port Qasim power plant in the southern port city of Karachi enables him to support his families and survive this hard time.
The writer heads the Sustainable Development Policy Institute.A government’s performance at the end of a calendar year is usually measured in numbers – particularly the data about.
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