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Pakistan: Electricity bills to rise as govt set to privatise power distrib
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
The Pakistani government has finalised a plan to privatise profit-making power distribution companies (Disco), adding that electricity prices are likely to go up reported ARY News, citing sources.
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Centre stopped privatisation of Visakhapatnam Steel plant: BJP leader CM R
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Rajya Sabha MP and BJP Anakapalli Lok Sabha candidate CM Ramesh said that the Centre has stopped the privatisation of Visakhapatnam Steel plant after an internal discussion.
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Finance Minister Aurangzeb expects Pakistan International Airlines privati
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said on Sunday that the privatization of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is expected by the end of June or early July, with Islamabad airport potentially following suit shortly after, Dawn reported.
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Congress President Kharge writes to President Murmu against 'privatisation
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Kharge, in his letter to the President, referred to an investigative report based on an RTI reply, which claimed that Sainik Schools are being privatised using a new PPP model introduced by the government, and "now 62 per cent of these schools are said to be owned by the BJP-RSS leaders".
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Pakistan: Paramedics protest in Quetta against privatisation of hospitals
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Grand Health Alliance, Balochistan staged a protest on Saturday opposing the government's plan to privatise hospitals in the provincial capital, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan govt 'assures' IMF of expediting privatisation programme
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The Pakistan government has 'assured' the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of expediting the privatisation programme, reported ARY News, citing sources.
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Pak PM Shehbaz directs officials to expedite privatisation process of PIA
Updated : 2 years ago IST
According to the report, PM Sharif called a high-level meeting in Islamabad to take stock of the privatisation process and also directed that immediate measures should be taken to strengthen the ability of the institutions in charge of privatisation to resuscitate the economy and speed up th
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Employees' union of Pakistan Airlines protest against privatisation
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
members of the People's Unity of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), which is commonly known as the CBA, under the leadership of President Hidayatullah Khan, took to the streets raising slogans and banners with messages of defiance against what they perceived as a calculated attempt to di
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"It appears privatisation of SAIL units been called off": Jairam Ramesh
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh alleged on Friday that the central government under Narendra Modi is solely responsible for the uncertainty surrounding SAIL units, which were proposed to be divested. The Congress leader said in a post on X that it appears to him that the privatisation has b
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TDP will never accept privatisation of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant: Party le
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
"TDP will never accept privatisation of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant. We will certainly raise our voice in Parliament against the move to privatise the plant," said Nara Lokesh. He said that if TDP comes to power in the coming election, it will extend its cooperation for the plant, like al
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"No question of privatisation of post offices...": Ashwini Vaishnaw in Raj
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
The government has no intention to privatise post offices and the Post Office Bill also does not have any such provisions, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology, Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in Rajya Sabha on Monday
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230 arrested in Lahore in crackdown on government employees' sit-in
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The Lahore police on Thursday launched a crackdown and arrested more than 230 protesters of the All Government Employees Grand Alliance (AGEGA) Punjab, many of them teachers, who were holding a sit-in outside the Civil Secretariat against the proposed privatisation of public schools, amendme
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