Power outages hampering exports
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KARACHI: Pakistan Apparel Forum Chairman and Chief Coordinator of Karachi Industrial Forum Muhammad Jawed Bilwani has strongly cursed unannounced industrial load-shedding by K-Electric (KE) for 7 to 8 hours daily and demanded a supervision to meddle and safeguard undeviating energy supply to a industries in Karachi. Expressing reservation, Bilwani settled that due to unannounced energy outages a finish change of industrial prolongation has suffered holding prolongation waste to 40%. This will bushel trade potency and will also dilate a trade deficit, he added. Bilwani pronounced that a government of KE is deliberately not handling thermal units operated on furnace oil. “If KE operates all a energy era units, load-shedding in Karachi will come to an end,” pronounced a forum chairman.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jun 8th, 2017.
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