The CCoE agreed to a summary submitted by Power Division proposing merger of the AEDB and PPIB and recommended its submission to the federal cabinet for formal approval. Wikimedia Commons/File
ISLAMABAD: Amid institutional disagreement over reasons behind the recent power shortfalls despite surplus capacity, the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) on Thursday once again approved the merger of two power sector agencies Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) and Private Power & Infrastructure Board (PPIB).
The CCoE meeting was presided over by Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar.
Informed sources said the reasons explained by Power Secretary Ali Reza Bhutta were challenged by Railways Minister Azam Khan Swati and National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) Chairman Tauseef H Farooqui.
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LAHORE: Railways Minister Azam Khan Swati has said that an inquiry would be held against those who caused damage to the railways and, Insha Allah, railways would be made a profitable entity by.
ISLAMABAD: Railways Minister Azam Khan Swati on Monday said that Pakistan Railways (PR) would overcome heavy losses in next six to nine months.
Addressing a news conference, the minister claimed that the railways had already become a for-profit institution for the first time in the past 50 years.
He expressed the hope that the freight service would soon increase from the existing four per cent to 10pc. The purchase of space, bidding and other matters for the construction of terminals at different places were also in the process, he added.
Mr Swati lamented that Pakistan Railways got zero income from its most valuable land during the past 70 years. Railway officers, police and some other people were involved in illegal occupation of PR land, he regretted.
“Royal Palm in Administrative Limbo”
The Royal Palm Golf and Country Club, which is the only profit-making entity owned by Pakistan Railways, appears to have run into an administrative tussle.
The resulting issues, if not assuaged in due time, are projected to lead the so far successful venture to a road to ruin.
What sits at the helm of the Royal Palm’s administrative squabble, is the appointment of Shahrukh Khan, a US-returned associate of Minister for Railways and Azam Khan Swati, as the new railway adviser and headman of the railway-owned club.
Although Khan’s appointment, alleged to be rooted in nepotism, has only been conveyed orally, the new hierarch has been quick to impose his authority through what’s being seen as an iron-fisted rule.