Nawaz sharif refuses to give time frame for ending load shedding

[Ali_Syed]

Re: Nawaz sharif refuses to give time frame for ending load shedding

@Aceones

i agree with you on that one.
but i read somewhere in news/ article etc which i cannot recall. the new projects are mostly coal based, also there is a program in place to convert existing furnace-oil-run power houses to coal, or at least add a second fuel option. this will of course not rid us of the IPPs, but it will somehow reduce our dependency on oil imports. couple this with fuel purchase on delayed payments (from N$'s arab friends, if they really brokered the deal, there must be something to make it run) all this may improve the situation a bit. but over all i agree this crisis is not easy to overcome

Even the cheaper furnace oil (on deferred payments) is a short term measure, because we don’t know for how long Saudia would be willing to do that and what kind of strings would be attached (Iran Pakistan gas pipeline and Pakistans foreign policy?). Another initiative could be to divert the gas from captive power plants to ipps, but for that the government would have to take on powerful fertiliser mafia. Don’t know yet if the government has stomach for that.