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Subsidised fuel scheme on the cards for bikes, rickshaws

NewsMarch 17, 2026

• Senate panel told ample petrol, diesel available; import of lower-quality fuel okayed; price hike ‘did not benefit’ OMCs• Officials tell panel no LNG supply from Qatar since March 2, gas wil...

Petrol reserves sufficient for 27 days, diesel for 21: petroleum secretary tells Senate committee

NewsMarch 16, 2026

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has sufficient petrol reserves for 27 days and diesel reserves for 21 days, Petroleum Secretary Hamed Yaqoob Sheikh said on Monday while addressing a meeting of the Senate Standing...

Govt hikes kerosene by Rs40 per litre, keeps petrol and diesel prices unchanged

NewsMarch 15, 2026

The government has increased the price of kerosene oil by another Rs40 per litre and approved Rs23 billion price differential subsidy for payments to oil marketing companies (OMCs) to keep the prices...

Govt mulling not hiking prices of petroleum products further despite increase in global market

NewsMarch 13, 2026

ISLAMABAD: The government has banned the export of all petroleum products and is considering holding back any immediate increase in petroleum prices, despite continued upward movement in the global ma...

Ogra notifies massive increase in RLNG price for March

BusinessMarch 12, 2026

ISLAMABAD: Less than a week after the government hiked the prices of petroleum products by a whopping Rs55, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) on Thursday notified a massive 19-22 per cent in...

IMF mission fails to reach staff-level agreement with Pakistan, talks to continue

BusinessMarch 12, 2026

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday confirmed that its mission could not reach a staff level agreement (SLA) on the third review of the country’s $7 billion Extended Fund Fa...

Senate panel to expose fuel price hike beneficiaries

BusinessMarch 10, 2026

ISLAMABAD: Amid a zero-bid response to spot tenders for oil imports and the oil industry�s demand for special permission for unusual war-risk insurance cover-based oil imports, including crude and ref...

Govt hikes kerosene price by Rs130 to Rs318.81 per litre

BusinessMarch 8, 2026

ISLAMABAD: After announcing a whopping Rs55 per litre increase in petrol and high-speed diesel prices, the government also silently increased the price of kerosene by almost 70 per cent, it emerged on...

Provinces deliver Rs1.2 trillion to Centre as revenues slip

HealthFebruary 9, 2026

� Punjab leads with Rs609bn cash surplus, followed by Sindh�s Rs354bn� KP transfers Rs175bn; Balochistan sends Rs41bn� Revenue-to-GDP ratio falls to 8.2pc in July-Dec despite reforms ISLAMABAD: Amid a...

Prosumers slam Nepra�s bid to curb incentives

BusinessFebruary 8, 2026

ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) and the Power Division faced sharp criticism on Friday from a wide range of stakeholders over proposed changes to net-metering regul...