LAHORE  - Interim Minister for Water and Power Dr Musaddiq Malik stated on Wednesday immediate resolution to continuing prolonged power cuts in the county lied in enhancing generation through providing fuel to those powerhouses which have not been working to their full capacity. In an ...

RAWALPINDI/QUETTA - ISRAR AHMED/BARI BALOCH - Water scarcity coupled with excessive electricity loadshedding has hit not only residents but educational institutions are also facing the brunt where students are in deep trouble.The water shortage amid hot weather conditions is getting worse with each ...

LAHORE - Residents of Samanabad area took to the streets on Tuesday against the prolonged electricity loadshedding and staged a demonstration.The protesters were carrying banners and placards, inscribed with the slogans against the Lesco. They were also seen chanting slogans against the federal ...

larkana/islamabadSevere heatwave accompanied by loadshedding has gripped several cities of interior Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday. A report said that seven people lost their lives due to heatstroke in different areas. The temperature has gone up to 47 degrees centigrade in Larkana ...

PESHAWAR - The inhabitants of internal city on Saturday hit the roads against the excessive and unscheduled power outages and blocked main Circular Road for all kind of traffic in protest. The protestors holding sticks in their hands came out from Ganj, Kachi Mohalla, Gari Khana and surrounding ...

LAHORE - After its formation, the PML-N government will deal with the problem of loadshedding as the topmost priority of its first 100-day relief programme. The party sources say that after assuming premiership, Nawaz Sharif in his maiden speech to the nation is likely to unfold a short term relief ...

About 20 operations are put off every day and around 60 have been postponed so far in few days in a 1400-bed Jinnah Hospital.Hospital sources said 1000 patients including 300 vist the emergency department of the hospital for treatment every day and around 30 needed surgery but due to persistent ...

lahore - Wapda spokesman has said that Water and Power Development Authority has no role in electricity load shedding in the country.In a statement issued from here on Friday, the spokesman added that subsequent to introduction of the power sector reforms and unbundling of Wapda’s Power Wing ...

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Water and Power Dr Musadik Malik Thursday removed General Manager, National Power Control Centre (NPCC), Rizwan Ahmed over his mismanagement regarding loadshedding in Gujranwala on Wednesday. The minister visited 32 gird stations in Gujranwala on a surprise check and found ...

islamabad - Federal Minister for Petroleum & Natural Resources Sohail Wajahat H Siddiqui has claimed that zero loadshedding on election days was due to continuous supply of oil and additional gas to the power sector of the country.Sohail Wajahat H Siddiqui said that we ensured the continuous ...

lahore - The severe power breakdowns and continued gas suspension to industry have reduced the rice milling capacity to 50 per cent thus reducing availability of export quality rice.“Unavailability of gas by the SNGPL is resulting in late drying of paddy and unless paddy is not dried, millers ...

Islamabad - As per elections strategy of the caretaker government, over burdened masses would witness zero power load shedding, uninterrupted oil and gas supply on polling day across Pakistan. To ensure continuous supply of oil and gas supply during today’s general election 2013, an ...

The electricity loadshedding scenario is worsening by every passing day with the caretaker government being unable to tackle it. There seems to be no workable solution in sight leaving people to suffer the scorching heat of the current and coming months. The power subsidy being paid by the federal ...

islamabad -  ahmad ahmadani - There seems no respite from spiraling up power outages, as government does not have funds to release KESC’s outstanding dues of Rs 71 billion while power utility has warned of massive power loadshedding in the port city of Karachi, parts of interior Sindh ...

karachi - Long-hours loadshedding in different industrial areas of the metropolis without any prior notice has badly hampered the trading activity just because of the negligence of Karachi Electric Supply Company.These was stated in a joint statement of town & industrial associations of Karachi ...

I was highly surprised, but at the same time delighted to know from a report captioned ‘Gas fired IPPs debt mounts to 32 b’ which appeared in your issue of April 18, that the energy crisis which brought Pakistan close to a position of doom can be easily solved. Now the question arises, ...

islamabad - Caretaker Minister for Water and Power Dr Mussadaq Malik has said that energy crisis in Pakistan is the result of a faulty business model, increasing demand-supply gap, and losses within transmission and distribution system. He was speaking at a consultative meeting on ...

islamabad - The government has claimed that power loadshedding would reduce by three hours in a day from Monday through the measures taken, including providing subsidy and gas to power plants for additional electricity generation.The government decided to provide Rs 45 billion subsidy and 150 mmcfd ...

islamabad - The All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) on Saturday asked the government to review gas loadshedding schedule and ensure uninterrupted supply of natural gas to CNG sector for five days a week.CNG is the only business in the world which remains closed for 18 days a month while it works ...

lahore - The traders, raising the voice against unprecedented power breakdowns in provincial capital, have observed that all power distribution companies in Punjab including Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) is flouting orders of the Lahore High Court.They questioned that 18-hour long ...

LAHORE - Electricity loadshedding which is hovering around 4,500MW, around 50 per cent of current demand, is expected to increase in coming month. The IPPs, Wapda owned Gencos and hydel sources are jointly generating 10,000MW for national grid against the countrywide demand of 15,000MW. But as ...

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Monday directed the Ministry of Water and Power and Lesco not to limit loadshedding to eight hours in the city, and immediately stop illegal supply of power in the provincial capital.Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial passed these directives while hearing several ...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial Monday resumed the hearing of case regarding unscheduled electricity loadshedding across the province.The petitioner informed the court that the masses were facing more than 20-hour power loadshedding.The court observed that all the ...

LAHORE - People have been a litany of complaints about up to 16-hour loadshedding but authorities have been dragging their feet over the matter. Lesco, Fesco, Gepco and Iesco (power distribution companies for Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan and Islamabad) are under the grip of severe shortage and they ...

LAHORE – City President of the PML-N and former MNA Muhammad Pervez Malik has said that the PML-N party on oming to power would make its all out efforts to eliminate horrible loadshedding in the country.“The corrupt government of PPP has become part of the past and a new era of progress ...

The Punjab Government appears to - in the final run up to the elections, of course - be going all-out to try and con potential voters into believing that it actually wants to do something to cut down the eternal hell of loadshedding that the populace, especially those residing in the rural areas, ...

KARACHI - Karachi Electric Supply Company has announced to start eight hours loadshedding due to consistently low gas supply from SSGC. According to the spokesman, gas supply to KESC has been fixed at 120-130MMCFD by SSGC despite drastic increase in power demand. However, SSGC seems to have ...

A man from marginalised background is heard saying loadshedding is the best revenge the PPP has inflicted on the masses. But even the elite, including members of the former government, are now getting a first hand experience of the extraordinary shortfall. After all, the onslaught of over ...

LAHORE - Former federal minister for water and power Ahmed Mukhtar has said that excessive loadshedding at this time of the season is a conspiracy being hatched by the new minister for water and power and secretary of the ministry on the behest of a political party and those who wanted to discredit ...

LAHORE – Dozens of factory owners led their workers to the street against loadshedding at front of Lahore Press Club on Thursday.Amid the Wapda statement that the electricity shortfall was standing around 3,000MW, which meant for six to eight hours average shutdown across the country, the ...