Tag: Electricity

No electricity, no assembly session

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MPAs violated section 144 and marched on The Mall against power outages while debates on power outages continued in the...

Electricity acid test for rulers: Saif

All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Secretary General Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif said on Tuesday that the ruling elite should ensure solution of prevailing electricity...

Electricity load shedding takes over NA agenda

The government on Monday failed to start debate on Pakistan-US relations’ review in the joint session of parliament in the face of strong offensive...

NO MORE!

Two people were killed in Lahore as protests in Punjab and Balochistan against chronic power outages entered the fourth day on Monday, just as...

PML-N tables motion against power tariff hike

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Wednesday submitted an adjournment motion in the National Assembly against the government's recent move to increase electricity tariff...

Live electricity wires pose threat

Dhok Najoo residents have complained against the failure of the departments concerned in replacing the live electricity wires. “The electricity cables laid in the...

Shocked yet?

Already suffering through long hours of outages, Lahore Electric Supply Company has decided to electrocute consumers by adding the Fuel Price Adjustment (FPA) charges...

Lucky vies to sell additional electricity

The Lucky Cement Limited, Pakistan’s largest cement producer, having its cement plants in Karachi and DarraPezu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), intends to sell additional electricity...

Live electricity wires threat to lives

Traders and citizens protested against Wapda for not removing live electricity wires in Bara Market that they say is severe threat to their lives....

Pakistan’s options

Must be in line with our national interests Governments in Pakistan have often taken decisions that in the long term benefitted others than the country...

Triple whammy!

Without showing any mercy to the already hard-pressed people, the government on Wednesday apathetically passed on the full impact of the rise in global...

KESC suspends electricity to pumping stations in Karachi

Electricity of pumping stations was cut-off by Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC), causing shortage of water to Karachi on Saturday. Managing Director (MD) Karachi Water...

Pak can produce 60,000 MW of electricity through coal, says Latif...

Pakistan can produce 60,000 MW of electricity through coal in order to meet the demand for the next 100 years. These comments were given...

Without any direction

The most daunting challenge faced by the country is how it can move forward and regain its prestige in the world, how to build...

92% of tribal people do not pay electricity bills

While the country is suffering from persistent power outages due to a circular debt of hundreds of billions of rupees, only a few are...

LHC enquires about electricity cost

The Lahore High Court Chief justice chastised a federal government law officer on Thursday for belittling a petition seeking information about the production and...

‘War to continue till outages continue’

Representatives of the Mazdoor Action Committee held a protest against the extended outages and anti-worker government policies at Shahdara on Friday. The rally began from...