Tag: Loadshedding

Power shortfall may surpass 6000mw during peak season

ISLAMABAD: The government has failed in ending loadshedding as power shortfall will surpass 6000 megawatts during the extreme heat. The prolonged outages have started in different...

Faulty transformer plunges Murree into darkness

MURREE: Most areas of the tourist resort Murree plunged into darkness on the second consecutive day due to fault in a transformer on Friday. Islamabad...

PM directs minimum loadshedding during Ramzan

Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Monday directed the Ministry of Water and Development to take immediate measures for the resolution of tariff issues and...

No load shedding on Eid Milad-un-Nabi

The Ministry of Water and Power has directed the power distribution companies (DISCOs) to avoid routine load shedding on Eid Milad-un-Nabi (PBUH). According to a...

IRSA to close canals from Dec 26 to Jan 31 for...

  By AHMAD AHAMADANI The Indus River System Authority (IRSA) has decided in consultation with the provinces to close canals from December 26 to January 31 for...

Residents protest prolonged power cuts in Faisalabad

Residents of Islam Nagar in Faisalabad on Wednesday staged a protest against prolonged power cuts in the locality. The angry protesters blocked the Sargodha Road...

Angry protestors try to pull down main power line in Peshawar

Restless locals took to the streets on Monday (today) in Peshawar to lodge a strong protest against prolonged power outages in Mahal Terai and...

No load shedding during Eid holidays: PPP warns PML-N

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senior leader Nisar Khuhro has warned the government to control load-shedding during Eid-ul-Fitr holidays else the government would have to...

Rawalpindi faces loadshedding during Sehr, Iftar

The tall claims of the federal and provincial governments to ensure uninterrupted power supply fell flat as citizens of Rawalpindi faced loadshedding during the...

Fesco employees to defy loadshedding

The employees of the Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) Wednesday announced not to conduct loadshedding as a protest against privatisation of the company. The...

“Govt making relentless efforts to end load shedding within its tenure”:...

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that energy sector reforms are top priority of the government, and our team is making relentless efforts to...

Winning ‘hearts and minds’ with political skullduggery

PML-N govt subtly trying to lure voters with temporary relief in load shedding

660MW to be added in national grid by Oct 2017: Abid

Electricity of 660 MW generated from Port Qasim coal-fired plant will be added to the national grid by October 2017.    This was stated by...

PESCO Board approves Hazara Circle’s bifurcation;Rejects KP Govt load shedding

Pesco Board of Directors at their 100th meeting held at Wapda House Peshawar, headed by Chairman BoD Pesco Malik Muhammad Asad Khan approved bifurcation...

Loadshedding won’t end by 2020: Nepra

ISLAMABAD: Loadshedding is unlikely to end by the year 2020, the State of Industry report released by the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) revealed...

Power cut leads to water woes

The suspension of water supply due to a 12-hour-long power cut on Saturday added to the misery of the residents of Iqbal Town, Ganj...