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Long hours of load shedding hits back Pakistan even in month of October

It October 2014, temperatures are dropped very much as compared to months of June, July and August. The electricity demand have dropped too due to the lowered temperatures as compared to hot months of Pakistani summers. The Load Shedding had also gone very much down. But how can Pakistani corrupt governments be in peace if people start to live in that. In current case, from no where, Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) led government thought that its been more than a month, Pakistanis are living in peace with relatively low Load Shedding and here we go, Load Shedding is back. Demand have not gone up this time, nor did the temperatures, but again the Nawaz Regime is unable to […]

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CNG Load Shedding Continues and Vehicle Queues Get Longer Than Ever

Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PMLN) had made many promises with people before coming into power. Main agenda was to make stuff affordable for people. But exactly like everything else the situation of CNG gone worse and year by year things going even worst. Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) is cheap fuel for vehicles in Pakistan and people prefer it over Gasoline or Petrol for reason it saves more than 60% money for same amount of travel on Petrol. In era of previous two government CNG Load Management Plans (CNG Load Shedding) were introduced to deal with CNG shortages and meanwhile steps were being taken to import Natural Gas. One of such step was initiation of Pakistan Iran gas pipeline which […]

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No CNG Load Shedding on Eid Days in Punjab

Punjab govt have announced no CNG Load Shedding on days of Eid al-Fitr 2014. CNG will remain continuously open from 6 am Monday 28 july to 6 am Friday 2 July. According to Punjab government this special schedule for CNG load shedding on eid days is devised to facilitate people traveling to their hometowns inside Pakistan. Let me remind you, in Ramadan CNG was only available for 18 hours in whole week, it was Monday and Thursday, from 6 am to 3 pm on both days. So due to this very short window of CNG opening for people of Punjab, majority of people didn’t even bothered getting the Gas during Ramadan. It is also most likely that same 18 hours […]

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People hit roads after PML-N Led Govt fails to Control Electricity Load Shedding

People all over Punjab and Pakistan have started hitting the roads for protests against electricity load shedding. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is a ruling political party, which before 2013 general elections had claimed that they will resolve all the issues people of Pakistan are facing. Among them all they had specific claims about electricity, their leaders Nawaz and Specially Shehbaz Sharif had different claims of dealing with electricity problem once and for all within duration of 6 months to 2 years, as claimed in different speeches. Now after more than one year passed with PML-N in power, electricity load shedding issue only gone worse. People in rural areas are facing load shedding of 18 to 22 hours daily and in […]

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Electricity Load Shedding in Pakistan continues even in winter 2014 even with new PMLN led government

Its winter 2o14, a new political party is in Power as result of elections held in early 2013. Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) which had done many promises with people of Pakistan including the resolving the power, gas and other kinds of energy crisis in Pakistan during their tenure. Now its more than half a year but people have not got any relief yet. Pakistan is observing a load shedding which is even worse than last year. In urban areas this load shedding is 10 hours day and in rural areas it ranges from 12 to 18 hours a day. Government first claimed that all of this load shedding is due to annual canal closure but recently a news […]