Year: 2022

K-Electric on Sunday said in a press statement that it has taken various measures as part of its efforts to offer maximum convenience to its consumers and ensure uninterrupted power supply to the city. According to the statement, these measures include setting up facilitations camps, conducting anti-power theft drives and disconnecting defaulters’ power supply in various parts of the city. KE said they recently held massive facilitation camps in North Karachi and Korangi, where they received massive support from the consumers. In both camps over 3,000 consumers were collectively facilitated…

The current water crisis, which has assumed proportions of an existential crisis, did not hit the country out of blue. It built up slowly and steadily over the last four decades, without any check, as a result of policy failure or its simple absence. It happened despite the country receiving ample warnings by international institutions (the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, United States Agency for International Development) as well as domestic water watchers, putting Pakistan on alert with a specific deadline: 2025 would be a gateway to disaster. The current…

While the private sector was not allowed to import LNG, government departments did not make timely imports and as a result the price of CNG in Sindh and Punjab has increased to Rs300 per litre. All Pakistan CNG Association leader Ghiyas Paracha on Saturday said the private sector was not allowed to import LNG on its own and the government delayed the import. “The causes for the delays are known to all,” Mr Paracha alleged, and demanded that the new government should probe the government officials concerned. He added that…

The first hydropower project under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – 720MW Karot Hydropower Project (HPP) – has started trial operations after two of its four units/turbines began power generation of 360MW on a test-run basis. The unofficial commercial operation of the project (power generation by all four units) will begin by June 25 when the third and fourth units would also start trial operation in the coming days, paving the way for its inauguration by the prime minister on June 30, Dawn has learnt. “The third unit will also start running…