Because of gas crunch, about 375 factories with captive power plants had been disconnected because

creation of new slabs in tariff would reduce the power subsidy by around Rs42 billion per annum

would meet again on Monday, the minister said, adding he would hold a final policy round up with

power plants, in the latest move to quickly boost the nation’s atomic energy. Under the proposed

power plants, in the latest move to quickly boost the nation’s atomic energy. Under the proposed

shut down two nuclear power plants for which it is seeking state subsidies that have been caught up in

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These announcements would be made shortly to progress talks towards the successful completion of the revised programme. Miftah assures IMF of taking immediate ‘tough’ decisionsThese steps were considered important to clear the backlog of structural benchmarks.... These factors were putting pressure on the current account as well as foreign exchange reserves. The minister assured that the government “ would take measures to reduce the burden on the economy while protecting the vulnerable section

subsidy based on the average uniform tariff determined by Nepra.... He said he had taken up the