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CNews PESHAWAR: Over 100 factories of Peshawar Industrial Estate have been closed here as The Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) has stopped providing gas to CNG stations to ensure its supply to domestic consumers. The Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited took the said decision after the go-ahead sognal from the caretaker government. He said that under a plan of gradual suspension, the SNGPL stopped supply to a couple of CNG stations in Hayatabad on Thursday.

Benazir placed under house arrest (Details updated at 1215 and first updated at 940) ISLAMABAD: Former premier and PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has been put under house arrest Friday, hours before she was due to lead a rally against a state of emergency, government officials said. "She is being placed under house arrest," a senior government official said on condition of anonymity. Nearly 200 police sealed off Bhutto's house in Islamabad with barbed wire and a magistrate went inside, apparently with the arrest order, hours before she was due to lead the demonstration in neighbouring Rawalpindi. A senior leader of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, senator Anwar Baig, said outside her house: "This is illegal confinement. This is illegal detention of a democratic leader." "We tried to convince Benazir Bhutto to cancel the rally but she did not agree, and we had no choice but to implement these restrictions," a senior police official said. The g...

CNews TEHRAN: Iran and Pakistan have agreed to periodic revision of gas prices as part of a pipeline deal to carry Iranian gas via Pakistan to India, an Iranian news agency said on Tuesday, quoting the local export company. "The two parties have agreed that each side submit its demands for gas price revision to the other side every three years, taking into account the situation on the international market," said a statement from the National Society for Gas Exports from Iran. The two countries have also agreed on other terms, particularly dealing with "situations of force majeure and the law governing the agreement." According to the statement quoted by the news agency, the Indian side -- opposed to a price review system -- may take part in future talks. Late in September, Hojatollah Ganimifard, Iran's deputy minister in charge of the project said Iran and Pakistan had reached an agreement, in the absence of India, on the pipeline. He added that the two countrie...

CNews TEHRAN: Iran and Pakistan have agreed to periodic revision of gas prices as part of a pipeline deal to carry Iranian gas via Pakistan to India, an Iranian news agency said on Tuesday, quoting the local export company. "The two parties have agreed that each side submit its demands for gas price revision to the other side every three years, taking into account the situation on the international market," said a statement from the National Society for Gas Exports from Iran. The two countries have also agreed on other terms, particularly dealing with "situations of force majeure and the law governing the agreement." According to the statement quoted by the news agency, the Indian side -- opposed to a price review system -- may take part in future talks. Late in September, Hojatollah Ganimifard, Iran's deputy minister in charge of the project said Iran and Pakistan had reached an agreement, in the absence of India, on the pipeline. He added that the two countrie...

ISLAMABAD: The Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) has decided to maintain the prices of petroleum products for the next 15 days.According to the statement issued by OGRA, there would be no change in the prices of the petroleum products for further 15 days.As per OGRA, motor spirit super petrol would be sold at Rs.53.70 per litre and HOBC at Rs.64.88 per litre. Kerosene oil will be sold at Rs.35.23 per litre whereas the price of light diesel will be continued at Rs.32.57 per litre.According to the OGRA spokesman, the government is providing subsidy of Rs.5.66 per litre on kerosene oil and Rs.6.69 per litre on light diesel.