The government has cut petrol and diesel prices for the third consecutive day, bringing petrol down to Rs362.00 per litre and high-speed diesel to Rs387.81 per litre from November 5. Taken together, the three revisions have taken Rs15.91 off the price of petrol and Rs15.15 off diesel since the start of the week, the sharpest...
The government has cut the price of petrol by Rs3.40 per litre and high-speed diesel by Rs7.76 per litre, bringing relief of a modest kind to motorists, transporters and farmers who have been paying close to Rs400 for diesel. The new prices, announced by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) on Monday night, took...
LPG prices in Pakistan have climbed to nearly twice the official rate, distributors and consumers say, as the closure of two border crossings with Iran cuts off a major supply route just as winter demand begins to build. Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik told parliament on Monday that the border closure was one of the...
Pakistan’s petrol price has climbed by roughly Rs28 per litre since the start of September, according to fuel price tracking confirmed in Thursday’s 11am headlines, as the country’s newly adopted daily pricing mechanism continues to push pump rates upward in near-constant, incremental steps rather than the larger, more predictable fortnightly revisions consumers were accustomed to...
The federal government on Wednesday announced a sharp reduction in the price of high-speed diesel, cutting the rate by Rs32.63 per litre, while simultaneously raising the price of petrol by Rs2.97 per litre, in one of the more dramatic single-day fuel price revisions the country has seen since shifting to a daily pricing mechanism. According...
Pakistan has strong laws on paper protecting women, from workplace harassment legislation to honour killing reforms. Yet enforcement gaps, low female workforce participation, and rural education drop-offs mean progress rarely reaches daily life. Areeba Ahmed examines why.
Petrol pumps across Karachi and the rest of the country entered an indefinite shutdown from midnight on Tuesday after talks between fuel retailers and the federal government collapsed, threatening fresh disruption for commuters and transporters in a city already stretched by rising fuel costs. The All Pakistan Petrol Pumps Owners Association announced the strike after...