Govt seeks Senate polls in February
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Govt seeks Senate polls in February
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to hold the Senate elections in February instead of March 2021, sources told Geo News.
The decision was taken on Tuesday during a federal cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan. The government has decided to use open voting for the elections, added the sources.
Addressing a post-cabinet meeting press conference, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government was striving to make the Senate elections free and fair. Controversies have always surrounded the Senate elections. It is such an old practice that it is assumed that in the elections, [horse trading] will surely take place, he said.
Govt seeks Senate polls in Feb
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ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to hold Senate elections in February instead of March 2021, sources told Geo News.
The decision was taken on Tuesday during a federal cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The government has decided to use “open voting” for the elections, added the sources.
Addressing a post-cabinet meeting press conference, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led government was striving to make the Senate elections free and fair. “Controversies have always surrounded the Senate elections. It is such an old practice that it is assumed that in the elections, [horse trading] will surely take place,” he said. Reminding the people of the PTI promise to bring about reforms in the electoral process, he said Prime Minister Imran Khan had dismissed 20 members of provincial assemblies on the issue. He said the Supreme Court had i
Govt forms body to address SSGC’s concern
Committee mandated to resolve RLNG losses issue in consultation with stakeholders
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The government has constituted a committee to address Sui Southern Gas Company’s (SSGC) repeated claim of recovering RLNG losses worth Rs7.7 billion from consumers of imported gas after the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) rejected the claim.
“As per directives of the adviser on finance and revenue, a two-member committee comprising Ministry of Finance secretary and Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division) secretary has been mandated to resolve the issue in consultation with the stakeholders,” SSGC stated in a detailed report sent to the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Tuesday.
Cabinet to mull SNGPL MD hiring
Petroleum Division has moved summary for consideration in Tuesday’s meeting
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ISLAMABAD:
Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) board of directors has turned down reports of intelligence agencies and has recommended the same candidates for appointment as head of the public utility.
Earlier, the Prime Minister’s Office had sought report of intelligence agencies on the credentials and financial integrity of existing SNGPL Acting Managing Director Amer Tufail and SNGPL General Manager Sohail Gulzar.
Negative reports had revealed issues of nepotism and financial integrity of these two officials respectively. The PM Office also asked the Petroleum Division in January this year to revisit the proposal and called for removing the current managing director from office. In a recent development, the Petroleum Division moved a summary to the cabinet for consideration in its meeting scheduled for Tuesday (today).
The federal cabinet would be starting on Tuesday the process for appointment of regular/fulltime chief executive officers (CEOs) of power distribution companies (Discos) and approve selection of managing directors of two gas utilities. PPI/File
ISLAMABAD: After more than two years in office, the federal cabinet would be starting on Tuesday the process for appointment of regular/fulltime chief executive officers (CEOs) of power distribution companies (Discos) and approve selection of managing directors of two gas utilities.
This comes on the heels of over Rs2.3 trillion circular debt in the power sector as of Sept 30, 2020, and about Rs350bn circular debt in the gas utilities Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) and Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) up from Rs1.2tr and about Rs120bn in 2018, respectively.