Tag: Outages

The Balochistan National Party-Awami staged a protest against daylong power load shedding outside the Quetta Press Club and Quetta Commissioner Office and presented a...

The citizens of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Thursday come out on streets as prolonged and unannounced electricity outage extended to 18 hours in the...

The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) and Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Lahore are at odds on the issue of power supply...

In the heart of PECHS Block II is a magnificent compound that has produced great women of Karachi: the PECHS Government’s Girls College and...

Hundreds of industrial workers, traders and industrialists besieged the GEPCO offices in Shahabpura Sialkot, continuing their anti-load shedding protest for hird consecutive day...

Much like other parts of the country, prolonged and unscheduled power outages have made the lives of people miserable in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and adjoining...

A large number of students and people rallied against unscheduled power outages by the Gujranwala Electric Power Company (GEPCO). The participants protested against the...

Hundreds of industrial workers, traders and industrialists on Tuesday staged a demonstration near Small Industrial Estate Sialkot and blocked the main Shahabpura Road for...

Anjuman-e-Tajiran and trade union organisations set up a protest camp in Sadar Bazaar Chowk against prolonged and unscheduled power outages while a group of...

Massive load-shedding has disturbed the publications business as increased costs have caused book prices to spiral out of control, Pakistan Today has learnt. Urdu...

Anjuman-e-Tajiran and other organisations of workers will observe complete strike on May 1 against FESCO over the prolonged power shut down in the city....

Furious traders from Anarkali and Neelagumband hold a protest against unscheduled outages as eight to 12 hours of load-shedding continued in the city making...

Hundreds of local industrialists, traders and workers staged a peaceful demonstration and took out a rally against power outages in Sialkot. The rally started...

KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) parliamentarians on Wednesday condemned long and unannounced power outages in the city that have badly affected the normal life of the citizens. They said the long hours of load shedding have made the life of people miserable with business activities the worst-affected. The students are also facing problems as they have to prepare for their annual examination without electricity. The candidates are forced to take their examination in the hot

ISLAMABAD - Persistent gas shortages and unilateral decision of gas utility companies to curtail feedstock gas supplies to urea plants, for a fortnight per month, have brought fertiliser industry on the verge of collapse.
The perturbed chief executives of fertiliser industry presented this horrific scenario at a meeting chaired by the Minister for Industries Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani.
They said that the shutdown of gas supplies for 15 days every month would completely damage

HAFIZABAD - Citizens protested against 14-hour-long unscheduled loadshedding which has made people's lives miserable, besides affecting all kinds of businesses. The protesters said factories were being closed and labourers losing jobs. They demanded the federal government take notice of unscheduled loadshedding in Hafizabad.
GIRLS ABDUCTED: At least two people abducted a girl from village Lakhia, 10 kilometers from Hafizabad. A girl Nazia went to the fields to respond to the call

KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) warned its consumers on Thursday that the duration of power load shedding could be increased to up to 14 hours.
The warning was issued after the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) informed the KESC that gas supply would be reduced to around 80mmcfd from next week because the Bhit Shah gas field would be shut down for maintenance.
Addressing the media on 'Status and Impact of Furnace Oil on Consumer Tariff' at the KESC head