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Night sky lit up for the first time in Swat village
100 KV hydropower station set up in Boyun village in collaboration with locals.
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PPP’s failures: Munawar Hasan says govt shouldn’t be given more time
Abductions, target killing, inflation, loadshedding on the list.
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Electricity woes: Townsmen protest over outages, low voltage
Claim appliances worth millions of rupees damaged due to low voltage.
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Economic Policy: PTI lists down health, education and governance reforms
Imran Khan, as prime minister, will devolve power from his hands down to grass-root level, says Asad Umar.
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Finding solace in Pashto music and film
Cinema-goers and film buffs catch up on fresh releases on Eid.
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YouTube video of the day: What is your problem awaam?
Another Urdu rap song pops up, complete with parody talk show “Larai Larai Maaf Karo”.
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Blackouts estranging Balochistan people
Punjab demands linking load shedding to recovery of dues.
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Power shortage: CM lashes out over Eid load shedding
CM said the federal government had made people’s lives miserable by cutting off power on Eid day and during Ramazan.
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Ban clothes also
Ban all watches and clocks so they cannot be used in making time bombs.
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Energy conservation: Argentina offers virtual pipeline technology
The technology is so safe that it allows natural gas to be transported through residential areas and busy markets.
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Citizen equality: Court orders abolition of housing societies’ exemption from loadshedding
Judge observes they have failed to eliminate power theft, loadshedding.
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UPesh art grads paint problems and solutions on canvas
Suicide, power outages and forgotten art are dominant themes at the thesis display.
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Precursor to food crisis?: Power cuts bode bad news for crops, farmers
Locals estimate agriculture produce of Malakand Division to decrease by as much as 50% due to water shortage.
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Official residencies: ‘End loadshedding exemption for VIPs’
Petitioner said loadshedding will not be eliminated unless the President, PM and VIPs suffered with the common man.
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The PML-N’s three Es
The people would like to know more — actually, a lot more, as to how a promise will materialise.
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On the matter of lawyers’ suits
We do not NEED to follow the British or the ‘universal’ example when it comes to the dress code of the courts.
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Free electricity?: Balochistan tops power theft list followed by Sindh
Despite having to bear the brunt of loadshedding, Punjab registers stellar recovery rate.
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Loadshedding: Afghan refugees take to the streets
Residents' shelter houses over 30,000 Afghan refugees
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Vexed by outages, low voltage: People threaten to remove 50,000 power meters
Say voltage supplied is too little to run electrical appliances.
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Council of Common Interests okays new petroleum policy
Also adopts Punjab CM’s resolution on equal distribution of blackout burden.
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The pricing of water
Abiyana does not cover O & M costs of irrigation system, let alone of repair, maintenance, development.
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Power firm employees’ perks may be withdrawn
Expresses shock over provision of free electricity even to senior officials.
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Official visits: Sharif inaugurates university in Multan
Announces more than Rs4 billion for development projects in the city.
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Power politics: Exempting VIPs from loadshedding is not justified, says LHC chief justice
Justice Bandial says people are right to take to the streets, peacefully.
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Supplying power to Karachi
KESC respects its customers, uninterrupted power supply is possible if all stakeholders work for the national cause.
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Power crisis: 12 booked for holding protest over outages
Over 200 villagers from five union councils of Khakhi took to the streets over frequent power outages.
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Presidential deeds
One wishes that he’d use his much gushed-about tactical smarts to instead better the lot of people he presides over.
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Uprooted power pylons
Less than two weeks ago, a storm lashed the area around Muzaffarabad and uprooted a number of power pylons.
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Citizen’s take: K-P govt festering ire of the people
Residents rebuke ANP for failing to control unemployment, inflation, loadshedding.
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15 new buses from Thokar to Raiwind
Reduced fare will be charged on the route.
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Protest: ‘Strike from Monday if loadshedding persists’
Badoki Wasaya residents seek separate feeder for ‘urban area’.
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No way out: ‘Resources to end power outages lacking’
Kaira, Mukhtar insist increase in demand behind power crisis.
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No end to loadshedding in Pakistan: Kaira
PPP leader says opposition should chant ‘Jaag Pakistan Jaag’ instead of 'Jaag Punjab Jaag'.
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Desperate measures: All parties conference wrong move for ANP
Opposition corners the ruling party, says it should have taken action earlier.
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Reaction to protests: Wapda employees threaten to go on strike
Demand registration of FIR against those who ransacked offices, attacked them.
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Vexed by loadshedding: Pro-Hazara province party calls for civil disobedience
Says Hazara faces more outages; tells people not to pay electricity bills.
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Power crisis: In Swat, glacial ice selling like hot cakes
Locals replace machine ice with hardened snow to chill beverages.
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The water car fraud
Agha Waqar Ahmad’s ‘water kit’, if one believes science to be right, simply cannot work.
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Is the PTI an establishment party?
Creation of the establishment or not, the PTI is certainly an anti-political-establishment party.
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Dengue season: Foreign national tests positive for virus
Storing water in containers during loadshedding a potential threat.
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Relief measures: Mukhtar directs end to unannounced power outages
Mukhtar asked the officials to ensure proper load management and compliance at the distribution companies’ DISCO level
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419 booked in Faisalabad over electricity protests
Protesters stormed to area police station to lodge protest against arrests of people at demonstrations.
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Shahbaz Sharif addresses loadshedding protesters
Hundreds demonstrate in Green Town.
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Ramazan loadshedding: Power shortage should be shared by all, says LHC
Punjab paying for others’ failure to pay bills: Petitioner.
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Anti-loadshedding violence in Punjab
Vandalism is becaming he new creed for a generation that will make Pakistan even more ungovernable in coming days.
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Kaira accuses PML-N of politicising power crisis
Information minister says PML-N should know that Punjab is not Pakistan, but a part of Pakistan.
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Respite in Ramazan: Heat-struck Swatis find the perfect diversion
Vexed by power outages and rising temperature, people flock to the Swat River to beat the heat.
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Patients at Risk: Hospitals severely affected by power cuts
Doctors, attendants and patients at the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) are among those suffering from load-shedding.
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Overburdened: Police presence at Pesco outlets increased
Police have deployed extra personnel around Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) installations this month.
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Futile assertions: Govt continues with hollow statements as public anger mounts
No tangible solution for the energy crisis has yet been provided.