No hike in tariff until outages end
Published: July 04, 2009ISLAMABAD (APP) - Advisor to Prime Minister on Finance, Shaukat Tarin, has said that the government would not increase electricity tariff until the loadshedding problems is resolved.“It would not be logical to enhance electricity rates at a time when people are facing the loadshedding problems,” he said while talking to newsmen after inaugurating a conference “Privatisation with Public Private Partnership” here on Friday.He said that Pakistan would be negotiating with
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