KHUZDAR: Hundreds of farmers blocked the National Highway, suspending traffic between Quetta and Karachi, in Khuzdar in protest against load-shedding on Sunday...
The farmers told Dawn, “sub-tehsil Baghbana and rural Khuzdar are subjected to 18 to 20 hours load-shedding despite the fact that we pay bills on time”...
The return of load-shedding, the emblem of an intense power crisis that the country has been in the grip of for almost a decade now, has cast a shadow over the electoral prospects of the PML-N in 2018...
The elimination of load-shedding was a central plank of the party’s campaign in 2013...
Rampant load-shedding, riots and attacks on power-sector installations, soaring circular debt, allegations of fudging of demand and supply data, high-level meetings being repeatedly convened to get an assessment of the situation, and repeated promises that load-shedding will end by the close of the year due to new projects that are about to be commissioned...
In April, we had a massive spike in load-shedding because of an unusual...
LAHORE: The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) Punjab chapter on Tuesday urged the federal government to maintain exemption of electricity load-shedding to textile industry’s major consumers on independent feeders during Ramazan...
In a press release, Acting Punjab Aptma Chairman Syed Ali Ahsan said the proposed 10 hours load-shedding would force the industry to close down one shift and lay off thousands of workers across...
LAHORE: The newly-appointed Punjab Industrial Estates Development and Management Company (PIEDMC) Chairman Rizwan Khalid Butt said on Wednesday that the launch of Quaid-i-Azam Apparel Park, completion of Chunian and Rahim Yar Khan Industrial Estates, and zero loadshedding at industrial estates are on his priority list...
Repeated episodes of widespread load-shedding amid plenty are clear reminders of this...
Justice Nisar was hearing a suo motu case at Supreme Court's Peshawar registry regarding load-shedding in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
He further said that the demand exceeded the supply due to which people had to bear load-shedding for hours...
The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Wednesday took notice of complaints regarding continuing unannounced load-shedding in Karachi and directed the power utility to submit a detailed report in this regard...
Separately, Amir, who lives near Jehangir Road, complained of load-shedding lasting for two-and-a-half hours, at least four times a day...
The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Friday formed a committee to visit Karachi and probe complaints of "excessive" electricity load-shedding by the K-Electric (KE) in the metropolis in recent days...
At the outset of the hearing, Sindh Minister for Energy Imtiaz Sheikh said the issue of load-shedding in Karachi had become "critical" and that there was a need for the federal and provincial governments and KE to...
Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Saturday assured the people of Karachi that there would be no "unannounced electricity load shedding" in the city from tomorrow (Sunday) after a decision to increase supply of furnace oil and gas to power utility K-Electric...
He was addressing the media alongside Sindh Governor Imran Ismail and K-Electric Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Moonis Alvi at a protest...
National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Javed Iqbal on Thursday ordered an inquiry against the K-Electric (KE) over complaints of frequent unannounced electricity load-shedding in Karachi, over-billing and violations of an agreement with the federal government for developing the power utility's infrastructure...
Last Friday, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) had formed a committee to visit Karachi and...
Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed on Tuesday took authorities, in particular the federal government, to task for excessive power load-shedding in Sindh, observing that the "federation was not fulfilling its responsibility"...
Justice Ahmed was heading a three-judge bench hearing a suo motu case regarding unannounced electricity load-shedding in the province...
Sindh Governor Imran Ismail on Monday expressed anger over the "continued unannounced load shedding" in the metropolis and directed the K-Electric CEO Moonis Alvi to immediately resolve the issue...
During the meeting, Ismail directed the KE CEO to "personally supervise" matters related to load shedding in Karachi and "immediately resolve the "complaints of citizens, a statement issued by the Governor's House said...
Pakistan’s urbanisation is featured in the report, and since the country is dealing with large urban problems such as law and order in Karachi and mass transit in Punjab’s cities, the report deserves a close read...
Pakistan’s policymakers — federal and provincial — need to listen keenly to the message of this report...
“The ongoing China-Pakistan Economic Corridor will significantly boost construction activities in the country, increasing demand for PVC as a result,” said one...