Sui Northern
Coverage of Sui Northern in the Nexus archive.
- Restive peripheries
The article discusses the persistent center-periphery divide in Pakistan, highlighting regions like Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) facing unrest, economic deprivation, and oppressive governance. It critiques the colonial statecraft model of extraction, where resources from peripheral areas such as Dera Bugti and Gilgit-Baltistan are exploited without equitable benefits, exacerbating regional disparities.
- Cabinet committee denies gas utilities exemption from international accounting standards
The Cabinet Committee on state-owned enterprises rejected a request by Sui Southern and Sui Northern gas utilities for exemption from IFRS-14 and IFRS-9 accounting standards. The Finance Minister directed further deliberations to address concerns about transparency and compliance under the SOEs Act 2023 and IMF requirements.
- Govt misses deadline for notifying gas tariff
The Pakistani government missed its July 1, 2026, deadline for notifying a biannual gas tariff under an IMF $7bn Extended Fund Facility (EFF) due to legal disputes over the acting chairman of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) and unresolved unaccounted-for-gas (UFG) reduction targets. The delay breaches a structural benchmark required for IMF program compliance, despite Ogra completing revenue requirement calculations.