Lakki marwat  -Local PTI leaders have called upon the newly elected lawmakers of party to raise voice against unbearable electricity loadshedding and play a role to rid the province from the menace.At a meeting held here on Saturday, District General Secretary Ahmad Nawaz and other ...

People across the country are facing worst ever electricity loadshedding this summer with power shortfall already exceeding 7,000MW and the duration of load shedding rising to 20 hours a day in most areas.Especially, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) have been subjected to prolonged and ...

SHEIKHUPURA/HAFIZABAD/SIALKOT/BAHAWALPURBecause of scorching summer and prolonged outages, a number of people particularly schoolchildren in parts of the Punjab got fainted and were hospitalised while one of them has been reported dead. In Sheikhupura, like other parts of the country, and its ...

LAHORE - Lahore Township Industries Association has decided to launch protest against unscheduled prolonged power outages.The decision to this regard was taken at a meeting here on Wednesday. Chairman LTIA Nasrullah Mughal presided over the meeting while PIAF Chairman Malik Tahir Javed, former ...

BAHAWALPUR/SIALKOT/BAHAWALNAGAR/BHAKKARUp to 22-hour unscheduled loadshedding of electricity here is badly affecting the work of small and big sized industrial units, traders and studies of the students.In Bahawalpur, loadshedding periods have increased to 18 hours, making the people’s lives ...

IslamabadThe Supreme Court observed on Tuesday that the thermal power plants are producing electricity below their capacity and this could be the one of the reasons of severe loadshedding in the country.The court noted, “There could be genuine problem but now it seemed the involvement of ...

             SIALKOT/ATTOCK The fresh bout of crippling electricity loadshedding coupled with hot weather has been testing the patience of people as they are compelled to pass restless days and sleepless night in Sialkot, Daska, Sambrial, Pasrur, ...

peshawarTo vent their anger against hours long loadshedding, electricity consumers on Sunday staged protest demonstrations, blocked roads and burnt tyres, and asked the government to stop power outages, otherwise authorities concerned will be responsible if any untoward incident happened in this ...

SIALKOT/ATTOCK  - The fresh bout of crippling electricity loadshedding coupled with hot weather has been testing the patience of people as they are compelled to pass restless days and sleepless night in Sialkot, Daska, Sambrial, Pasrur, Satrah, Chawinda, Badiana and surrounding areas.As per ...

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 visit the emergency department of the hospital for treatment every day and around 30 needed surgery but due to persistent ...

HAFIZABADAs the mercury rose so as the power loadshedding duration, multiplying problems and plight of the citizens who are themselves in a fix. The small shopkeepers and workers of powerloom units have protested against ever-increasing duration of loadshedding, which, according to them has pushed ...

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 ...

WAH CANTT - With gradual increase in temperature, the phenomenon of unscheduled electricity loadshedding is also picking up pace, as the consumers of historical city of Taxila have been facing 18-hour a day power outages for the last two days.The load shedding has become an uncontrollable monster ...

karachi - The SITE Association of Industry has expressed serious concerns and reacted strongly on the announcement of 12-hour loadshedding by Karachi Electric Supply Company.Specially the resident of adjoin areas of Federal B. Industrial Area badly suffered due to long hour loadshedding.  In ...

lahore - The electricity shortfall is touching 5,000MW with 12 hours loadshedding in urban and rural limits of the country. The hydel plants, IPPs and thermal power plants are jointly generating 10000MW against the demand of more than 15000MW.The city is under the grip of massive outages with ...

ISLAMABAD -  Over-burdened masses, already bearing the brunt of power loadshedding, suspension of compressed natural gas across the country for a long time, has witnessed zero power loadshedding, uninterrupted oil and gas supply across Pakistan on the polling day.Though the inflation stricken ...

Islamabad - Owing to financial constraints of Pakistan State Oil (PSO), which is left with five days storage of furnace oil, already spiralling up power outages might worsen if the cash-starved government did not release at least Rs 10 billion to the state owned fuel supplier. Official sources in ...

FAISALABADFaisalabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry President Mian Zahid Aslam expressed grave concern over up to 20-hour unscheduled loadshedding which has crippled industries and the people’s lives, warning that the national economy was fast heading towards the point of no return due to ...

BAHAWALPUR DCO Syed Wajid Ali Shah stressed the need for rationalising the schedule of electricity loadshedding to provide relief to the general public.Addressing a meeting of the District Load Management Committee, the DCO emphasised that a comprehensive plan for loadshedding should be formulated ...

LAHORE - Unannounced power cuts of up to four hours are rubbing salt into wounds of powerless public, though authorities have already been carrying out 14-hour announced loadshedding.The national grid is facing over 6,000MW shortfall, around 60 per cent of the countrywide demand and the situation ...

LALAMUSA - Former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif blasted 18-hour loadshedding and said that why Tehrik-i-Insaaf is mum over this injustice to the Punjab.Addressing a public rally here on Friday, Shahbaz said that Imran should join public’s protest against power outages and change his ...

lahore - The business community on Friday welcomed SC suo moto action on power outages and hoped that electricity situation would improve resultantly.They said that unavailability of electricity was not only rendering thousands of industrial workers jobless but also causing closures and ...

lahore - The long-hours loadshedding is increasing day by day despite the government claims that Rs45 billion have been issued to power sector for fuel arrangements.On Wednesday, the city feeders of Lesco conducted 12 hours loadshedding with two to three hours consecutive cuts in some areas while ...

lahore - The Lahore High Court Chief Justice on Monday sought a detail report and reply on electricity load-shedding in Punjab from Ministry Of Water and Power, Ministry of Petroleum, Ministry of Finance and other respondents.“No priority is being seemed regarding the load-shedding,” ...

RAWALPINDI - The unscheduled prolonged loadshedding in the city has ruined the businesses of traders, who have threatened to go on complete shutter down strike for an indefinite period.Talking to this scribe, traders said 18 to 20 hours loadshedding ruined their business. They said the previous ...

islamabad - The caretaker government has approved a plan to overcome the unscheduled power loadshedding in the country, as additional subsidy and gas would be provided to power plants for additional electricity power generation.Caretaker prime minister Mir Hazar Khan has approved the plan to reduce ...

lahore - The representatives of trade and industry, while threatening civil disobedience because of government’s non-seriousness to control power outages, have urged the authorities to shun discriminatory attitude and provide electricity and gas to the industry in Punjab.President Sahiwal ...

islamabad - The government seems unable to find any solution to ease power crisis in the country despite injecting Rs 288 billion into power sector in less than ten months of the ongoing financial year 2012-13.Finding no other short run solution, the cash-starved government is releasing subsidy ...

LAHORE - The LCCI has decided to stage protest demonstration on April 27 (Saturday) against unprecedented power and gas loadshedding.The decision was taken by LCCI Executive Committee during its meeting held here at the LCCI on Saturday. LCCI President Farooq Iftikhar presided over the meeting ...

sialkot - All Pakistan Dry Ports Association (APDPA) Chairman Muhammad Ishaq Butt has expressed grave concern over the worsening energy crisis in the country.Talking to the newsmen here on Sunday, the APDPA chief regretted that the country had been in the grip of severe energy crisis since over ...