‘High growth causing power shortage’

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… The high growth rate of the economy is responsible for the current power crisis in the country and over Rs 140 billion would be spent on water and power sector in the next fiscal year to bridge the demand and supply gap of electricity, Dr Ashfaque Hassan Khan said this to an audience on Friday. … Daily Times

Can the government be forgiven for this? Also, what were the reasons for the power cuts in the 1990s?

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Re: ‘High growth causing power shortage’

of course the power outages have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that hardly a mega watt of electricity has been added to the National Grid since 2000. All that non sense is propagated by foreign funded opposition members.

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Re: ‘High growth causing power shortage’

LOL, that's a new excuse!