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Peaceful N-programme: Attainment of SDGs

When the United Nations adopted the 2030 Development Agenda in 2015, Pakistan fully embraced all its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), which has pioneered…

Powering the future

As the digital world evolves, one emerging trend is the unprecedented energy demand required to fuel the AI revolution, particularly with the rise of Generative AI (GenAI). According to the…

Don’t blame the Chinese

AN exam question for CSS aspirants: what’s higher than the Himalayas, deeper than the seas, stronger than steel, and sweeter than honey? Well, dear candidate, any hesitation suggests your patriotism…

Our atoms for peace

PAKISTAN is among eight countries of the world that possess nuclear weapons. This puts our country in the category of nuclear elites like the US, Russia, UK, China, France, India…

Timely revival

After some four years of chaos in the higher education sector, with many key programmes systematically destroyed, sanity has finally prevailed. Prof Mukhtar Ahmed, a person with vast experience of…

The national electricity plan: Part – I

Complying with the recently introduced requirements of the Nepra Act, the power division has prepared the first draft of the National Electricity Plan (NEP). This plan is one of the…

Pepco’s revival

Pepco (Pakistan Electric Power Company) has been revived under a legal arrangement of being a “Managing Agent”. The role of Pepco, briefly speaking, is to monitor and coordinate the operations…

Circular debt — I

Circular debt issue is getting more serious by the day. Worse has yet to come with the installation of new capacity while demand continues to stagnate. There are projections that…