Tag: Power

Electricity shortfall has reduced to 2,800MW amid demonstrations against power outages across Punjab. According to a PEPCO spokesman, the total power generation has reached...

The power distribution companies (DISCOs) shocked the Ministry of Water and Power on Thursday when they clearly expressed their helplessness in recovery of over...

Indian President Manmohan Singh told Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of the Seoul nuclear safety summit that India was willing to...

Spokesman of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has said the electricity supply disruptions have further dragged the textile industry to the brink of...

From mosques, to homes and streets, Pakistanis are increasingly seeing the light and realising that year-round sun may be a cheap if partial answer...

If you can pay R. 30,000 to 35,000 per hour to the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO), you can then be fortunate enough to...

Protests against massive load shedding continued across the province for the fifth day running, as an angry mob torched LESCO’s regional office in the...

The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has expressed great concern over the “unending incidents of theft of precious cables from the power transmission network”. In...

One protester was killed while two others sustained serious injuries when security guard of a petrol pump opened fire at them during protest demonstration...

Citizens across the Punjab province took to the streets on Saturday against agonisingly power outages that have badly disrupted routine life. Citizens in all major...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said his party would back any decision the Supreme Court made in a contempt case...

The Punjab Forum on Friday said it is difficult for country to survive without proposed hydroelectric Kalabagh Dam (KBD). The existing dams are not enough...

Carrying placards, sticks and chanting slogans, dozens of people protested against long hours of power outages in Lahore on Tuesday. The protesters also...

Back to the dark ages – the days of affordable electricity are seemingly over for the common man, as the government on Tuesday tightened...

The electricity shortfall in the country has risen to 5,800MWs. According to PEPCO sources, presently 7,500MWs of electricity were being generated while the demand...

The water reservoirs at Tarbela and Mangla on Saturday reached dead level, further reducing the country’s already inadequate hydropower generation and increasing the odds...

Water and Power Minister Naveed Qamar said on Saturday that it would take time to end load-shedding. Addressing businessmen community at Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce...