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 ...

lahoreThe Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry 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 Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry on ...

LAHORE - All Punjab Chambers Presidents and Association Chairmen meeting was held on Friday here at of office of Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) headed by Azhar Saeed Butt. Butt said that energy crisis is a mismanagement that is hitting the industrial sector across ...

RAWALPINDI - The business community in the city came down hard on the government as well WAPDA for excessive electricity loadshedding and said that power outages are causing huge losses to their business. In this regard, a meeting was convened by RCCI here on Tuesday. The meeting was president by ...

HAFIZABADPML-N President Nawaz Sharif has pledged that his party, on coming to power, will steer the country out of the prevalent crises as it is capable of eliminating terrorism, unemployment, loadshedding and hunger. Addressing a big gathering here Tuesday evening, Nawaz Sharif said he would ...

KARACHI - Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Munawar Hasan has presented 29-point party manifesto for upcoming general elections here on Monday. The JI chief presented the party manifesto during a ceremony held at a local hotel. The main points of the manifesto that the JI wants to make Pakistan a model state ...

ISLAMABAD - With a gradual increase in temperature, prolonged and unannounced loadshedding of up to 18hours a day has multiplied the miseries of the over burdened masses who are bearing the brunt of energy crisis for years.Power shortfall on Monday was recorded 3,500mw as power generation stood at ...

GUJRANWALA - Enraged over crippling loadshedding, Anjuman-e-Tajran accompanied by religious organisations staged a sit-in outside Gepco office and warned of dire consequences if the issue of worst outages was not resolved till April 14.The protesters chanted slogans against the government and ...

SIALKOT/JHANG - As many as 500 small and medium surgical industrial units have been closed down in Sialkot city and its surrounding areas for the last  two weeks due to the daily 20 to 22 hours long loadshedding of electricity in export-oriented Sialkot city, said the chairman of Surgical ...

SIALKOT/SHEIKHUPURA - Hundreds of perturbed students, industrialists, traders and common public took out rallies here separately against the unbearably prolonged and crippling loadshedding of electricity. In the export-oriented city, traders took out a rally on main city roads to lodge their strong ...

SIALKOT/SHEIKHUPURA - Hundreds of perturbed students, industrialists, traders and common public took out rallies here separately against the unbearably prolonged and crippling loadshedding of electricity. In the export-oriented city, traders took out a rally on main city roads to lodge their strong ...