{
  "id": 2508846,
  "title": "Sugar giant joins alliance to acquire FESCO; GEPCO privatisation draws 11 bids",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/sugar-giant-joins-alliance-to-acquire-fesco-gepco-privatisation-draws",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-22T05:49:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Times",
    "slug": "daily-times",
    "url": "https://dailytimes.com.pk/1542114/sugar-giant-joins-alliance-to-acquire-fesco-gepco-privatisation-draws-11-bids/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Pakistani sugar giant JDW Sugar Mills announced this week that it has joined a consortium of companies that will collectively bid to acquire stakes in the state-owned Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO). JWD Sugar Mills Limited is owned by JDW Group, which is headed by Jahangir Khan Tareen, a prominent businessman and politician. The group […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}