No deadline to end load shedding: Kh Asif

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No set time limit is saay vadiyah surprise air kia hoo Sakta hai

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I am just saying phele raja sahib k laray thay ab in k, phele tu kaha thay federal mei hakomat hoti tu hum loadshedding khatm kr detay ab kya hua

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^ maybe that's his qualification, otherwise he has no experience of interior ministry.

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AJK would be fully sufficient if Pakistan govt didn't steal the electricity generated by Mangla Dam.

Thieves. At. The. Top.

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Without revenue earned from selling Mangla electricity to the rest of Pakistan, AJK cant sustain maintenance and operations of Mangla for too long.

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^ maybe he is pointing out stealing the revenue of AJK, ie not giving full royalty to the state.

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laaray are common to everyone, irrespective of who won who lost.
2ndly everyone knows load-shedding cannot end in days, neither months. $$ saying he will end it in a year was a farce. even he himself went from 3 months to 3 years near the end of the political campaign (the TV ad? was it 3 years or 2 i'm not 100% sure) PTI said it will be 3 years (Asad umar have been saying on talk shows it will take minimum 3-4 years). still if we expect it to finish in just days its our own wrong expectation like election results.

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guess Pakistan can start giving full royalty when it starts recovering full billed amount to its own govt departments and provinces. From the news circulating in media, we know that Punjab has highest recovery rate (Faisalabad reaching 99%) lowest recovery rate is in KP.

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There are some issues which need to be rectified, e.g. Balochis keep on pointing the rates offered to them for the gas produced (are the lowest) where as Punjab (not surprisingly) gets the highest.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013\05\26\story_26-5-2013_pg3_2

Syed Fazl-e-Haider, a respected analyst, in his piece, “Balochistan for increased share in gas revenue” in a national English daily on September 29, 2009 wrote, “**The province has been demanding an increase in the well-head price of its gas to bring it at par with the rates in Sindh and the Punjab. Some five years ago, Balochistan was getting merely Rs 22 per MMBTU while Sindh was getting Rs126 per MMBTU and Punjab Rs180 per MMBTU for some of its wells. If the prices were made uniform with that of Sindh gas, Balochistan would get additional revenue for meeting its development needs. **While the federal government is arbitrarily subsidising the sale of natural gas from Balochistan to consumers in other provinces without its consent, the province is left with no funds to finance its annual development programme. According to one estimate, the subsidy for Sindh is around Rs 1.72 billion and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Rs 12.92 billion. The subsidy being given to the fertiliser sector in terms of fuel, amounts to Rs 1.054 billion, cement sector Rs 34.64 million, fertiliser (feedstock) Rs 31.03 million, CNG Rs 24.12 million, general industrial sector Rs 424.15 million and commercial sector Rs 54.67 million. All the subsidies are being provided at Balochistan’s expense.”

After much delay the prices were raised but still the average well-head prices are: Balochistan Rs 66.34, Punjab Rs 162.93 and Sindh Rs 142.57; interestingly, the 12.5 percent royalty fixed for gas drawn from the field area is based on ‘well-head value’ so Punjab gets more from less while Balochistan less from more. The injustice becomes even more apparent when the percentage of production and own usage is seen, which is Balochistan 40 and two percent, Sindh 54 and 36 percent and Punjab six and 44 percent respectively.

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i don’t know how that rate is set. I’m just guessing that probably it will have something to do with scarcity of gas and production cost involved in certain areas. since gas is least available in Punjab, hence costs more, gas is in abundance in Balochistan, hence costs less.

As for consumption ratio is concerned, even if you shut down all industry in Punjab, just its household usage of gas will be more than collective use of gas in Balochistan in all sectors. Punjab alone has 60% of Pakistan’s population.

But if there are any unjust criteria of setting the “well-head prices” (never knew this term before) it must be addressed and made acceptable to everyone.

But just by quoting figures about consumption and production of resources by provinces, not considering other numbers involved we mostly give wrong picture of one province taking share of other provinces unjustly.

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‘No load-shedding in Presidency, PM house’ | Saach.TV](http://www.saach.tv/2013/06/10/no-load-shedding-in-presidency-pm-house/)

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only awaam left to bear fruits of democracy! :k:

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Shahbaz Sharif’s deadline come true, only after a few days of PMLN taking office. :k:

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Zahid Khan vows to get severed Karachi power supply from national grid

Zahid Khan vows to get severed Karachi power supply from national grid - thenews.com.pk

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate Committee for water & power Zahid Khan Monday vowed that he would get the decision for severing power supply to Karachi from national grid implemented, Geo News reported.

Zahid Khan said that Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) had given the decision to cut off power supply to Karachi from national grid and he would see that this decision was implemented by all means.

My comments: KESC was independent till early 1990s and it was in profits till late 80s as well. But then increasing theft and mis management led to KESC asking for supply from WAPDA

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news already posted.

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I hope that he isn't talking about the dam that is supposed to submerge skurdu to gilgistan that was proposed by some engineer saab as well. I think it was maybe called katzarh dam?

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no, this is in Chakwal area, somewhere in the middle of Terbela and Kalabagh

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Protests in Faisalabad getting ugly. In the recent past Punjab government has been tacitly supporting the protesters against PEPCO (since its a federal entity). Today the protests went out of hand in the city and the government had to resort to force to control them.

Moeed Pirzada
Regarding Police Action in Faisalabad:

I am afraid that in the last 2-3 years crowds in Punjab were encouraged to demonstrate and even vandalize the property of PEPCO (Electricity Departments) since it belonged to Federal government and important political figures kept on encouraging and even gracing such demonstrators so Police never took tough action against such “acts of vandalism” ..now both Center and Punjab belong to the same party and they don’t want to encourage such outbursts of anger…what they need is a new communication strategy in which important political figures like CM or Interior Minister should explain that we are resolving the Electricity Load Shedding Issue, this is our plan, we need few weeks to reduce it and we will not tolerate the kind of “protests” and “vandalism” which we had encouraged before…(this last bit will be difficult but there is no option)

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