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Sohaib, just say ‘gaad blesss mushy ankil far inventing bijli in pakustan’.. 
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industrial consumption, unlike domestic consumption does not drop much over winters. i think that is one of the root causes.
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from the second year of nawaz sharif’s second tenure:
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Dawn/1999/30Jan99.html
Industry suffering Rs8.8m loss per hour
Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Jan 28: The city trade associations have expressed dismay
over the power crisis and called for intervention of the government
to prevent the situation from going worse.
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king_faisal what do u have to say about the unprecedented double seassoned load shedding during musharraf’s times? 
btw, my main article already proved what I said so please stop trying to google so hard, for an expired wired service.
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sorry man, i dont waste my time taking questions from people who lack the ability to use google. also fyi, the last link i posted was from jan which in pak is the winter season. so under ns, load shedding was taking place in winter as well as summer.
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^ lol even your own posted link no where states that load shedding was ‘regular’, there were just instances in nawaz’s regime where they had to do it for a while. But in the dictator’s reign, its been regular, steady, and dual seasoned looks like you need help with google
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Electricity consumers seek Musharraf’s help**
****Thursday, January 03, 2008
By Our Correspondent
LAHORE
THE Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has failed to announce any schedule for power outages that occur in the provincial metropolis throughout the day causing massive inconvenience to people.
Unscheduled load-shedding started in the last week of December 2007 and the company was facing a shortage of some 756 MW on Wednesday. Sources in the company said the company had prepared a load management plan under which electricity supply to all commercial centres will be suspended at 8pm. Steel furnaces will face a power suspension from 4pm to 10pm and other industries must reduce their load by 25 per cent otherwise they will have to face power outages.
Power outages have paralysed life and people are bothered by power outages throughout the day. Hide and seek of electricity has also given rise to an acute water shortage in most areas as taps dry up when tube-wells operating stop functioning. People say that there should be no outages between 8pm to 9am because it ruins the day especially for those have to work during the day.
There is no single locality where power supply is smooth. Lahorites are facing power failures even during the wee hours of the day before sunrise. Power outages have hit everybody and only those who have power generators on standby are spared of this agony.
Majority of electricity consumers have called the ongoing spell of power outages the worst form of torture one can face in life. Moreover, outages trouble those the most who are sick or those who are nursing their dear ones.
Things become even more troubling when people have to get out of their beds midway between their sleep to take care of electric appliances such as refrigerators. Increasing sale of stabilisers, UPS systems and generators in electronics markets across the city speak volumes of the fact that electric appliances at homes are unable to bear the brunt of the power outages.
Residents of various city localities have appealed to President Musharraf, the caretaker Punjab chief minister and the Punjab governor to help alleviate the plight of citizens. Citizens have appealed to these people to take strict notice of the situation and issue directives to the Water and Power Development Authorities to go easy on subscribers. People have also urged WAPDA officials to opt for load-management in a more humane way and also ensure that the schedule of power outages was advertised in media so that people could prepare in advance.
When the day dawns, traders in the markets and industrialists are seen raising hue and cry over the ongoing load shedding and many of them say they have lost hopes that the problem will ever be fixed permanently. Business activity in the city is also affected adversely, with the result that the axe is consequently falling on hundreds of thousands of daily wagers looking for menial jobs.
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When contacted, the LESCO spokesman said the company was preparing a load management scheduled so that people could know the timings of power outages. He said that an abnormal increase in electricity growth rate and less electricity generation was the main cause of the mess.
Answering a question about closure of electricity supply to commercial centres after 8pm, he said the electricity supply to commercial centres will be terminated from 8pm till 8:30pm. He said commercial centres will have to face regular load shedding intervals too.
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the interactor who started this thread posted an article which claimed:
"When Nawaz Sharif government was deposed in 1999 the country had surplus electricity..."
yet now the same interactor is claiming:
"there were just instances in nawaz's regime where they had to do it for a while...."
since the interactor is disputing the article he himself posted, i think my work here is done.
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talking to him is like speaking to a brick wall
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And the person objecting that isnt a smart bloke… When it was deposed in 1999, Pakistan had surplus energy, and my second statement that you so vehemently posted said that there were some instances, particularly when repairs were going on that they did do it. Now prove to me how they contradict each other. Btw, in case you bothered to read the article from the news which I posted, which is more credible from ur expired virginia.tech links, in 1999 Pakistan did have surplus energy.
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When Nawaz Sharif government was deposed in 1999 the country had surplus electricity as well as surplus natural gas. In fact, the Nawaz govt enjoyed the distinction to afford delay in entering into gas supply agreement for the gas discovered by the private sector.
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LOL.
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Aalsi/rez, mind explaining whats so funny, or are you doing ur usual TC of Mushy apologists again?
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You heard it here folks, there was no load shedding, terrorism, corruption during the rule of NS and BB. Pakistan was considered a model country and on it's way to become a superpower with surplus gas, surplus electricity, surplus gandum, surplus honesty, and surplus jihadis with no poverty or mehngai.
All this changed once the evil Mush took over. It's all clear now. How could we be so blind?
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^ I see you read the article for once...
Read it? I've memorized it to heart. All Pakistanis long for the brilliant days of BB and NS. Someone just needs to remind Pakistanis of that.
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all this development was started by Mian Nawaz Sharif.
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all this development was started by Mian Nawaz Sharif.
Not really, it was Benazir.
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Not really, it was Benazir.
Not really, it was Zia.
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Nonsence. 
Initial development started under Ayub Khan, then stopped when Ayub Khan retired, then restarted when President Musharaf came to power.
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Now they are saying there will 8 hours long outages... All because of Mush govts negelect and ill planing.