SIALKOTExporters, manufacturers, vender industry and traders have expressed deep concern over the increase in electricity tariff and termed it stabbing the already sinking industrial sector in the back.Sialkot which is totally export-oriented city and hub of cottage industry has been facing 18 to ...

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 ...

lahore - With the highest cost of doing business in the region, the tanning sector is already under pressure and decision of Nepra to increase tariff by Rs 5.80 per unit will prove last nail in the coffin of this industry.The industry is already facing loadshedding of 8 to 10 hours which has added ...

ISLAMABAD - Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Climate Change will generate power through incineration of solid waste which will help to overcome the power shortage in the country. Implementation on Environment Policy 2005 will be ensured which recommends to phase out sulfur from ...

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 trade and industry on Friday severely criticised the caretaker government for making a huge increase of Rs5.82 in per unit price of electricity and termed it an anti business decision aimed at sabotaging the popularity of PML-N government. They said that at a time when the business ...

Niaz Ahmed As the initial enthusiasm about Pakistan’s elections abates and serious questions are asked about the integrity of the polls in a number of constituencies, a new fragmented political landscape is emerging. Although strong support for the Pakistan Muslim League-N, one of ...

LAHORE Caretaker Minister for Information and Broadcasting Arif Nizami said on Friday that caretaker government had fulfilled its promise of holding elections on time and power would be transferred to elected representatives soon.  Addressing a press conference here at Aiwan-e-Iqbal, he said ...

lahore - The textile industry is being exposed to 14–16 hours a day loadshedding of electricity now against total exemption from loadshedding of electricity on independent feeders during the same period last year. The industry circles have apprehended heavy losses due to short supply of gas ...

ISLAMABAD -  Prime Minister Justice (Retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso on Thursday said that transfer of power to the newly elected government would be completed in accordance with the constitution and the will of the people of Pakistan within the stipulated time. The nation’s fearless ...

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 - Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has reiterated that transfer of power would be completed without any delay as stipulated in the constitution.Premier Khoso was talking to Federal Information Minister Arif Nizami who called on him here on Tuesday and briefed him about the facilities ...

No country can progress without proper usage of its God given resources; people of Pakistan are facing lots of problems due to misuse of its resources. The government of a country tries to improve the living conditions for its masses, but we have seen the opposite happening in Pakistan. Issues such ...

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 ...

LAHORE - The Lahore Electric Supply Company has managed to provide uninterrupted power supply through better loadmanagement during the days of elections. “There will be no loadshedding from Friday evening to Sunday morning,” said a spokesperson for Lahore Electric Supply Company.All the ...

  new york   PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif is likely to maintain cordial relations with the US and tread ‘gingerly’ with Pakistan’s powerful military, while first bearing down on his country’s serious economic woes if his party wins Saturday's elections, The Washington ...

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Information Arif Nizami has assured that transfer of power would be made to the next government within the stipulated timeframe given for it in the constitution and made it loud and clear that no one could even think of stealing the mandate of any political party in the ...

islamabad - Caretaker petroleum minister Suhail Wajahat Siddiqi on Thursday said that due to involvement in gas theft, natural gas supply to the captive power plants is suspended while gas provision on loan to the KESC is also stopped and a ban is also imposed on issuing new gas connections.This he ...

islamabad - Caretaker water & power minister Musadiq Malik on Thursday said that though power sector is facing annual loss of Rs75 billion on account of oil theft and irregularities yet there would be uninterrupted supply of electricity for 36 hours during election days across the country.Two ...

I voted in the last elections and my party won. I distributed sweets and made merry. But, I ended up crying for the next five years. I may have voted for the party that formed government but I hadn’t voted wisely. It was my loss and a loss for the entire country. Now that I am going to ...

islamabad - In his maiden appearance before public in party’s ongoing election campaign, Pakistan People's Party chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday vowed to rout the remnants of military ruler Ziaul Haq on May 11 as he believed his party would hold on to power in elections. Addressing a ...

lahore - Despite prime minister’s clear instructions to ensure power supply on the polling day, the Punjab government has reportedly allowed the district administrations to draw money up to one million each for alternative energy arrangements, sources in S&GAD confided TheNation.Caretaker ...

KARACHI : Routine life and business activities have been badly affected in the city because of unscheduled and prolonged power load shedding. Several areas of the city face 10-12 hours long power failures. KESC had alerted citizens about the inevitable increase in the duration of loadshedding in ...

SARGODHA As May 11 elections are reaching fast, the political activities have gained momentum in NA-66, PP-33 and 34 of Sargodha city and cantonment areas. Despite of hectic efforts, Jamaat-e-Islami nominee is still a step behind the PML-N, PTI and PPP candidates who are struggling hard equally to ...

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s ruling coalition retained its 56-year hold on power, the country’s Election Commission said early Monday, but a bitter opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim refused to concede defeat.The commission said the ruling Barisan Nasional (National Front) coalition led by ...

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 ...

charsadda/buner/mardan/swabi/peshawar - Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, said on Saturday that there will be no drone attacks on Pakistan if PTI voted to power on May 11.He said that tsunami of his party would sweep the political actors in the critical May 11 parliamentary ...

lahore - PML-N President Nawaz Sharif says his party has completed a comprehensive plan to rid the country of the crippling power crisis. He said his party does not believe in hollow promises but takes practical steps to deliver on its promises. Addressing his party workers here Saturday, the ...

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 ...