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The overall shortage of power supply in the system has hovered between 6000MW and 4000MW over the past couple of days as humidity increased almost across the country. AFP/File
ISLAMABAD: Fuel shortages caused by inadequate supply arrangements and forced outages are leading to serious power supply constraints as consumers suffer in extreme humid conditions across the country.
A senior official of the Power Division conceded that power companies had been compelled by unavoidable circumstances to apply forced power cuts ranging between 1,000MW and 2,000MW in peak hours. This does not include revenue-based loadshedding of 2,500-4,000MW depending on how the relevant authorities are technically able to park shortages.
Pushing PML-N to wall no service to nation: Shehbaz Opp leader says PML-N being targeted for providing cheap transport and free medicines to masses
July 13, 2021
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif on Monday came down hard on the government due to ongoing energy crisis.
Addressing a press conference at PML-N Secretariat in Model Town Lahore, the opposition leader said that there was load shedding of 20 hours before Nawaz Sharif took the reins of the country in 2013 but the PML-N government successfully gave a load shedding-free Pakistan in 2018.
Accompanied by former Finance Minister Miftah Ismail, party’s deputy secretary general Attaullah Tarar and Punjab’s Information Secretary Azma Bukhari, the opposition leader said pushing the PML-N to the wall is no service to the nation. “We are being targeted for giving cheap transport, free medicines, laptops and health cards to the people,” said the
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July 1, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Energy Minister said the PMLN government had made a contact for purchasing LNG for 13.7% above the Brent rate, but the PTI government purchased it only for 10.4%.
In the Brent stays constant, Pakistan would save Rs510 billion in next 10 years. He said only 0.003% diesel was used this month (June), and furnace oil utilisation had been slashed by one-fourth compared with the previous government. The minister said if he divulged all details given in the documents of the previous government’s misappropriation of national funds, he feared NAB would lodge another case against Miftah Ismael and Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.
Hammad Azhar said the PTI government had to resign the IGA [inter-governmental agreement] with Russia as the one signed by the PMLN government was totally ambiguous. He said the North-South Pipeline agreement, which was signed by the PMLN government in 2015 had also to be resigned, as the previous government failed to initiate work on it in three ye