The price will be implemented from April 1

Students returning from summer vacations will pay more to get to school this term because of a weaker rupee, which resulted in higher transportation costs in July. Food and petrol will also become more expensive in the coming months. This is because the inflation rate for July was higher than analysts’ forecast of 5.5%. The…

FAJARDO, Puerto Rico: Brian Jimenez had burned through dwindling supplies of scarce gasoline on a 45-minute drive in search of somewhere to fill his grandmother’s blood thinner prescription. He ended up in Fajardo, a scruffy town of strip malls on Puerto Rico’s northeastern tip, where a line of 400 waited outside a Walmart. The store…

NEWS DESK: Public suffered across the country as oil tankers owners associations staged a strike. Watch this report about how the masses suffered in Rawalpindi and Islamabad:

With the same old price, a new high-quality petrol has been introduced in Pakistan as a good news for consumers of petrol. The new petrol will help keep maintain the engines and enhance their performance. Watch video report by Muhammed Luqman from Lahore.

Grade-A petrol will be available for consumption in Pakistan from November, SAMAA reported on Friday. Watch this report by Lahore’s Muhammed Luqman about what petrol dealers and motorists say about availability of high-quality petrol in the country.

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Liquefied Petroleum Gas Distributors Association Pakistan (LPGDAP) Irfan Khokhar Tuesday feared crisis of LPG in the upcoming winter season after imposition of 5.5% Advance Tax on import of the commodity. “LPG demand will increase in the coming winter season and we are afraid of the LPG shortfall which can lead to worst crisis…

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said the government was providing fuel to the public on lowest price among all the fuel importing countries. Talking to a news channel, the minister said Pakistan reduced Rs 5 per litter on Monday while neighboring country India had reduced just Rs 0.04 per litter….

NEW YORK: Oil prices fell Wednesday as an increase in US crude stockpiles provided fresh fuel for concerns about the global oversupply. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for delivery in December dropped $1.09, or 2.4 percent, to $45.20 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent North Sea crude for December delivery, the international…

KARACHI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived in Karachi today on daylong visit during which he will hold meetings with politicians and businessmen, Samaa reported Friday. Upon his arrival, the PM was received by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and some of the provincial cabinet members along with senior officials, including Sindh Chief Secretary,…

SINGAPORE: Asian consumption of gasoline and other fuels has beaten expectations due to demand stemming from structural changes in the economies of Asia's biggest oil users, vindicating for now OPEC's decision six months ago to keep its taps open.  Saudi Arabia's oil minister in November persuaded fellow OPEC members to refrain from cutting their crude…

SAMAA TV obtained CCTV footage of an armed robbery, which took place at a fuel pump in Lahore today.

GENEVA: In their battle against “terrorists”, countries around the world must root out the injustices that fuel extremism and are used as recruiting tools, the UN human rights chief said Thursday. “The struggle to combat extremist violence must tackle the visions of injustice that fuel it,” Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein told the UN Human Rights…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan State Oil has bought 830,000 tonnes of fuel oil for delivery over March to May, 7 percent lower than the same period last year. PSO imports between 85 and 90 percent of the country's fuel oil and petrol, but it has been forced to cut purchases because it has not been paid by…

TOKYO: Toyota President Akio Toyoda on Tuesday unveiled the assembly line that is making the first mass market fuel-cell car. The world's biggest carmaker plans to produce 700 units of the four-door Mirai sedan — powered by hydrogen and emitting nothing but water vapour from its tailpipe — by the end of December. Production of…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's ongoing fuel shortage that has led to worsening power blackouts is weighing on its credit worthiness and hindering its ability to meet key reform targets laid out by the IMF, ratings agency Moody's warned Monday. The country is currently in the grip of one of its worst power crises in years due to…

ISLAMABAD: Holding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif responsible for the prevailing fuel crisis, Opposition Leader in National Assembly, Syed Khursheed Shah Tuesday demanded of the government to launch a judicial probe into matter, Samaa reported. “If Sharif is directly in charge then he is the one who should be blamed for the current chaos,” Shah said…

The rumors of petrol crisis got the people to cop a heal in order to stock up on fuel for future use. Watch the report.

LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri said Monday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Petroleum Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar are responsible for current fuel crisis. Qadri also said that the finance minister must resign as he is responsible of putting the people in trouble. “Rulers have done to…

ISLAMABAD: Punjab continued to face severe petrol supply shortage for the eight consecutive day this morning prompting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to convene an emergency meeting later today. Long queues were seen outside petrol filling stations across Punjab as the general public ran pillar to post to get few liters of the fuel. In Lahore…

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has cancelled all his official engagements scheduled for Monday as he would spend the day chairing meetings on fuel management, focusing on provision of immediate relief to the people. The Prime Minister, who had taken serious notice of fuel shortage, is expected to take important decisions in these meetingsso…