INSTEAD of fulfilling the promise to end loadshedding, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has rather resorted to forceful closure of businesses and entertainment after 9pm.

While our rivers run full, world oil prices are low, LNG supply is available, solar, wind, RPP and other new sources of power generation are on line, we have to sustain reduced hours for business and entertainment, while people will endure reduced income from their businesses.

Such a decision makes no sense. Or is it just another ploy to extort money from businesses either in the form of leniency in the current policy or in the sale of generators and fuel?

S. K. Baseer

Peshawar

Published in Dawn, May 7th, 2015

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