The caretaker Cabinet had turned down the proposal to set up Performance Monitoring Units in five power distribution companies (DISCOs)suffering significant losses because this would have been a quick-fix and would not have worked in the long term. The PMUs would have been headed by a brigadier and included officers from the Pakistan Administrative Service, the FIA and an intelligence agency. The rationale was that the DISCOs were suffering losses because of the theft of electricity. The Power Division itself had proposed the PMUs, but they were rejected because the basic problem........