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Engr Tahir Basharat CheemaBusiness Recorder |
Each sector has its issues that need interpretations for the people to understand. The power sector has become a riddle to say the least. Every month...
Presently, the power sector is stuck with 43,000MWs of available generation capacity, while the power division informs us that our demand hovers...
Come rain or storm, the political animal will never leave the chance to reap the best out of the economy of any sector. This pursuit is evident in...
The present sad state of the Pakistan’s Power Sector cannot be emphasized any further. Everyone, including the successive governments, understands...
After explaining the issues with policy and plan, governance and management of the PSCEs, it is important to explain about the operational management...
The sector shenanigans have resulted in a near existential threat for the Country. Although, the situation has been in the news since long, but no one...
Energy in Pakistan has always been a sore point, especially because availability waxes and wanes and so does the policy. Public policy is most...
Academics keep on telling us about the progress Pakistan achieved during the 1960s – basically, through the tutelage of the then most effective...
Unfortunately, the Pakistan Power Sector is never away from the public eye– specifically, since the last two decades. Media, primarily, picked-up...
Power tariffs have recently been in the limelight – not for any other issue but for unaffordability of the same. The steep rise during the last two...
The de-bundling of Wapda’s Power Wing in 1996 has been traumatic, to say the least. Besides, it has also turned sour for the people of Pakistan...
Unbeknown to the Regulator, presently the DISCOs are not even maintaining their existing infrastructure. Basically, they are wasting the outlays on...
Privatisation of Discos has been on the anvil since the 1994 World Bank spurned reform primarily relating Wapda’s Power Wing. It was envisaged that...
The presently beleaguered Power Sector is being assailed by its generalist governors. Conveniently forgetting that they are the problem, they are...
Power Sector as a whole and specifically the electricity tariff is under discussion every day. All and sundry are challenging the validity and...
The media is replete with news of the Power Sector – mostly negative. Most recently, it is the exorbitant bills being received by the people and the...
The whole nation is seized by the huge bills received by the people. KE – as a vertically integrated utility – with its own dedicated generation...