Tag: Outages
Three-day gas outages after Eid
After a lengthy debate, the Petroleum Ministry and stakeholders agreed on a makeshift agreement, under which gas supply to CNG and the industrial sectors...
Brace for worst gas outages this winter: minister
Federal Petroleum Minister Dr Asim Hussain dropped a bomb during the Senate session on Thursday, telling the members of the Upper House of parliament...
Gas outages replace power outages
Various areas of the city have been facing gas outages for the last three days, Pakistan Today has learnt. Sources said the problem could...
PEPCO fools citizens, reverts to 12 hours of outages
After giving a one day relief to the people, the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) started 12 hours load shedding in the city, once...
Less outages take Lahoris by surprise
The federal government succumbed to violent protests and virtually ‘exempted’ major parts of the city from outages on Tuesday and after three days of...
Capital residents decry power outages
The authorities at the Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO) seem unmoved in the wake of strong public resentment against unscheduled hours’ long power outages,...
Energy Conference to help cut power outages: Firdous
Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday said that an Energy Conference is being held on Monday in Islamabad to...
Outages leave Punjab in the dark
Commercial and domestic life was severely impeded when all regions of Punjab experienced between 12 and 20 hours of outages on Tuesday. Industrial hub...
Non-payment of dues to IPPs resulting in increased outages
The people are enduring 10 to 14 hours of load shedding every day now owing to some 40 percent of power plants not producing...
Power outages add to dengue fear
Pakistan Electricity Power Company (PEPCO) seems to be facilitating dengue mosquitoes by continuing the load shedding tradition during nights.
The increase in load shedding is...
Outages return
The city witnessed six to seven hours of load shedding on Tuesday creating a lot of problems for citizens while outages are expected to...
Power outages claim 4 patients’ lives
At least four patients on ventilators who were needed to be on oxygen owing to their condition died at Karachi’s Jinnah Hospital due to...
City experiences 8 hours of power outages despite Eid
Citizens faced six to eight hours of power shutdown despite a tremendous decrease in power consumption because of Eid holidays, Pakistan Today learnt on...
‘Eid holidays’ of outages end
Load shedding returned to the city on Saturday after three days of Eid and citizens witnessed six to eight hours of outages.
In some areas,...
Business community demand an end to power outages
The business community of Peshawar on Tuesday demanded an end to unscheduled power load shedding, saying that it would help boost business activities.
Markaz-e-Tanzeem Tajiran...
Peshawar residents protest against outages
Residents of different localities took out protests against Peshawar Electricity Supply Company (PESC) due to unscheduled and excessive outages and low voltages on account...
PM orders Rs 25b for PSO, IPPs to cut down...
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday directed the ministries of Finance as well as Water and Power to pay Rs 25 billion to...
