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Cabinet mulls over early Senate polls
Receives detailed briefing on voting through show of hands in upper house election
ISLAMABAD:
As opposition threatens to hand in resignations from the federal and provincial legislatures, the ruling party has started weighing the option of holding the Senate polls – scheduled for March – at an earlier date in order to win control of the upper house by snatching majority from the PML-N.
“[Senate polls] can take place even before February,” Federal Minister for Information Shibli Faraz said on Tuesday in reply to a question while addressing a press conference after a federal cabinet meeting.
The federal cabinet would be starting on Tuesday the process for appointment of regular/fulltime chief executive officers (CEOs) of power distribution companies (Discos) and approve selection of managing directors of two gas utilities. PPI/File
ISLAMABAD: After more than two years in office, the federal cabinet would be starting on Tuesday the process for appointment of regular/fulltime chief executive officers (CEOs) of power distribution companies (Discos) and approve selection of managing directors of two gas utilities.
This comes on the heels of over Rs2.3 trillion circular debt in the power sector as of Sept 30, 2020, and about Rs350bn circular debt in the gas utilities Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) and Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) up from Rs1.2tr and about Rs120bn in 2018, respectively.