ISLAMABAD: A high-level emergency meeting with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the chair continues in Lahore to discuss solutions of power load shedding in the country and problems being faced by the people in general and the business community in particular.
While talking to the officials PM Shehbaz said that do whatever you have to but load shedding should not exceed the duration of two hours. According to media reports, he said that PM got very angry when the officials said that there is already only two hours of load shedding happening.
While responding to their claims PM said that he knows that more than 10 hours of load shedding is happening in the country and he would not believe in their lie.
“People need relief from load shedding,” says PM.
The installed power generation capacity of Pakistan is above 37,000 megawatts-11,000MW more than the current demand-but the national energy basket is receiving over 21,000MW from all sources, say officials in the power sector.
Earlier the previous day, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had said that the current issue of load-shedding was due to the policies of the government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf which failed to address the problem of electricity generation in its tenure.
