The caretaker government has removed the Pakistan Steel Mills from its privatization list of the state-owned entities. The government has issued a new list of the state-owned entities (SoEs) that will be handed over to the private sector under its privatization programme. Overall, 26 SoE will be privatized under the ongoing government programme including four institutions each in financial and real estate sectors. In the new list of privatization, maximum 14 state institutions belong to the country\u2019s ailing energy sector. The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is the only SoE of the aviation sector in the functional list of the privatization programme. Three institutions of the state\u2019s industrial sector have also been part of the privatization programme. Moreover, the State Life Insurance Corporation (SLIC) has also been included the privatization programme. Frome the energy sector Balloki, Haveli Bahadur, Guddu, Nandipur power plants have been part of the privatization list. Moreover, 10 state-owned electricity distribution companies would also been privatized to the private sector under the active list. \u201cThe House Building Finance Corporation, First Women Bank, Pakistan Engineering Company and Sindh Engineering Limited have also been in the government\u2019s privatization list.\u201d Services International Hotel Lahore, Jinnah Convention Centre Islamabad and the PIA\u2019s Roosewelt Hotel in New York are the state-owned entities to be privatized under the official list of privatization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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