The return of loadshedding
Loadshedding is back. In some places for two hours a day, in some places for four or more – but it is back. It took Nawaz Sharif and his PML-N…
Loadshedding is back. In some places for two hours a day, in some places for four or more – but it is back. It took Nawaz Sharif and his PML-N…
When the PML-N won the 2013 elections, our country had debilitating power and gas shortages. PML-N leaders believed that the party won the elections on the back on Mian Nawaz…
Clearly, loadshedding is not a generation-capacity issue (the government is utilising around 50 percent of the installed capacity). To be sure, the current loadshedding is because of circular debt. And…
Is loadshedding a generation-capacity issue or a governance issue? That indeed is the mother of all questions. Let us begin with three facts. Fact one: the installed power generation capacity…
PM Nawaz Sharif has expressed displeasure over the performance of energy sector due to extensive loadshedding of electricity which is being exploited by the opponent political parties. It is recognised…
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There is a lot of talk these days of Pandora's Box, whether in the media or in courts of law. Musharraf's counsel in the treason case tries to put fear…
Ok, don't ask me where I am because to quote Jimmy Gilmer of The Fireballs, "I ain’t gonna tell". The only thing I can tell you is that I ain’t…
There are power riots, strikes and disturbances now throughout Punjab caused by the hitherto unimaginably heavy loadshedding. There is a shortfall of 8,000 MW now. Due to the onset of…
I have been missing Rehman Malik ever since he starting advising the prime minister on the country’s internal affairs. Now he has no time to record his quotable quotes on…