I think there is a spelling mistake, for: 2017 read: 2071...... !

Mr. Prime Minister, I would have preferred not to hear you or your brother say anything about power failures. Makes it very difficult for poor citizens of Pakistan to have any faith in you/PMLN.

Ok prime minister, we,ll see!

If you remain before 2017 stop dreaming mr

Yeah right ! a temporary fix just before the elections.

Where he said "the loadsheddding will end by 2017" ?

You said six months before elections and now you say two years? What a lie to the nation.

How many times have we heard this mantra before.

Only in PM House!

No it is not possible and realistic to end it by 2017, given the present condition of Pakistani electricity infrastructure. Just shows that the government is not serious about getting rid of load shedding problem. They just want to give temporary relief to the agitated people.

Yup electricity load shedding will end when there is no electricity left.

Drama set for 2018 elections

How come Mr Shabaz doesnt talk about electricity anymore?

Bad management, poor leadership and mass corruption will make sure loadshedding will continue way beyound 2017.

I hear in 2013 Election you Mr.PM and ur Brother CM both promised 100% for 6 months, I think I can go to Dr to clean my ear, now you saying 2017 do you believe you will be in power that year, country is in bad shape, 1400 people death in Karachi and PM and CM are opening Lahore and Islamabad metro, now orange train, pls stop this put in electric city. remember what happen PPP wipe out from the MAP. I heard in your speech for 6 months.

Less load shedding in VIP Areas only.

It would have been better to cite and enumerate steps taken since 2013 for increasing electricity production in the country rather than giving targets. It is because people of Pakistan no more believe your words on this topic

ALL LIES

Mr. prime minister, The preference card you are holding for tackling the national issues, with it, you won't succeed in overcoming the power shortage in the coming many decades.

Please come out from your non-stop electricity supplied Taj Mahals. This is not the criteria or measurement to stop load shedding. Come to a ground reality, and spend one whole night with out this basic necessity.

Been a independent i have to say that what PM is stated will be nearly true and condition will improve in 2017. When we construct plant it will take nearly 31/2 year to 4 years to complete from planing to finish the project (I talk about the fastest solution via coal plants and for rest it will be different like nuclear plant will take 7 to 8 year and dams will take from 8 to 12 year based on capacity) So what he stated is correct but due to increase in demand this will goes the year 2020 that load shading will be finish if this govt whole project run smoothly without interruption. Been a professional i can say that.

I am not a NS supporter but I should not lie. This is the first time in Lahore atleast that loadshedding is only about 6 hours a day. In the past it used to be much more. So give credit where credit is due.

First it was 6 months , then a year , then two years and now yet another two years !!

This is not what you promised during your election campaign.

another lie

No it Wont!

They even do not know the meaning of top priority. Top priority cannot be more than one otherwise they are priorities without any order. If you review news for last one month you will find the following nonsense: Education is our top priority. Health is our top priority. Defense of the country is our top priority. Terrorism is our top priority. Relationships with Pakistan neighbors is our top priority. Energy (Electricity, Petrol, Gas) is our top priority. Transportation is our top priority. Economy and creation of jobs is our top priority. Tourism is our top priority. Religious harmony is our top priority. Protection of minority rights is our top priority.

Load Shedding has increased from 12 hours to 20 hours in our ERA.

2017 will also come soon and then you will come up with kilometers long list of excuses and forget your today's promise.

Unless China and India send us a 100 million extension cables, it ain't gonna happen sir!

@amir these are not spellings, these are numbers

Well make a deal with the public that fr every delay caused spend one night without electricity. Then i am sure the problem will be fixed. The issue is that the ruling does not have to suffer the load shedding. Were it suposed to things would have been a lot better

Please don't end it by 2017. How are you going ro run your election campaign then. You must consult your brother first. He is an expert.

Another joke.

Just before 2018 election another promise!

Here comes new date...!

What happened to "we will end load shedding in 6 months" pledge? Oh I forgot ... you were too busy building the metro service.

Why SS said 6 months before election? . Was it a joke or fraud? or just fooling the innocent Pakistanis.What about Nandipur Project?

yeah wow thank you. and then he will win again for giving electricity very smart move.

Stop lying!

First you sad 6 months, but things have got worse. Can we believe you?

Yes, right when his term ends. PPP said the same. Fake promises and nothing else.

Yeah. . . This just look a dream of PMLN about the load shedding issue over here. According to here Prime Minister have been talked about the Punjab in 2017.

A very simple quick-fix to the problem of load-shedding is to divert heavy power consuming devices to alternate sources. For example, if air-conditioning is replaced by appropriately designed and installed "Evaporative Cooling Systems", our power shortages can evaporate in a jiffy! Even we can intercept and harvest cool air from the mountain tops near cities like Islamabad and use it for air-conditioning of large buildings. Similarly, deep below the surface of dams like Rawal-dam, there is a storage of cool water that can be used for air-conditioning purposes with some insight from Canada, where such projects are operating. It is paradoxical that, countries in the Middle East are using evaporative coolers since long that were developed by the British and introduced in the offices of the sub-continent about a century back. It is highly appalling that, our leaders in their senseless lust for exuberance, make extravagant use of scarce resources at the cost of mass-sufferings.

False promises.

"equally concentrating on energy-related projects." Thats the problem, you need to give priority to energy-related projects over all other projects. Treating them equally didn't help so far. And no one believe on yet another false promise.

How many times you and your brother will make false promises? The nation is already busy thinking about an alternate name for Shabaz Sharif as he himself said change my name if I don't resolve electricity issues and he has already extended the dates 3 times. May God save us from this corrupt and incompetent government

That's what My PM should do.

no less a bluff..

Still people vote them and gets trap in their lies

Please stop playing with people's emotion.

2017 is a long awaiting, many countries are adopting to Solar energy, why not get help from China for the technology.

A country's power demands continuously rise. By the time these power projects get completed, the demand would probably have risen by about the same amount. News isn't politician promises. Where are the academics? What are their assessments?

But Mr. PM your Pre-election slogans were different than what you are saying now. First people were experiencing loadshedding. Now they are dying out of heatstroke. The intensity of heat has increased given the climate change factor. Pakistan is the world's third most water-stressed country. The countrymen does not have gas for six months a year. Education and health sectors are in a dismal state. The country has implicated in various crises, inter-alia, social problems. Since, the birth of this country, if we count, the performance of successive governments is a big zero.

Gosh he actually has the cheek to give a year??? With he and his brother making false promises to the nation, if i was a leader i would be too embarrassed to even raise such a topic. These guys have no conscience.

Loadshedding less this year? I in Karachi experience nearly 10 hour daily loadshedding, which is up from 7.30 we used to experience before. Also during election campaign I hear Muslimleak claiming they would end loadshedding in 90 days....Pls break up K-electric in three companies run by the private managers to give this city some respite

So what's new? whoever comes in power bumps target date 3-4 years. This is a never ending scenario that's why people never get excited, they have given up.

DEAM ON ..... without panning you will no where.

Yes, this should be the priority of Pakistan.

@ Amir, very well said.

Enough with all these blatant lies Mr. Sharif. It is merely impossible to digest that a country like Pakistan which prospered in the 50s and 60s more than any other country in its region is now yearning for necessities like electricity and water. Its so sad to see how the entire nation is tied up and is all tangled up in the issues that shouldnt have existed in the first place. How could a nation stand up on its feet when the basic necessity becomes an impossible task to get? When basic rights are impossible to get? When there is so much demotivation and discouragement, it gets easier to fool such nation. The elite like Zardari house and Sharif house have capitalized on such disasters and filled their fortunes shamelessly. Pakistan Zindabad laiken Pakistan se zinda bhaag!!!

Hollow promise again, PM brother Shabaz Sharif said same thing during 2013 election campaign. Load shadings will never end until government remove all corrupt leaders and their relatives from key posts.

"The prime minister said that this year there was less load shedding than last year" what a pathetic joke !

We should not fret over trivial issues like electricity. Alexander the great won half the world when there was no electricity in Greece. (It's different thing that Greece is going back to those days again)

And this is the 101th time we have heard this excuse

will there is loadshedding at prime minister's and his brother's house by end of 2017??? lets wait and watch :)

And the next general election is....? lol.

This is what you call a people friendly government....he has solution for everything ..let's wait and see country will prosper under his leadership ...will become the biggest economy in south Asia..

As if end of 2017 is just around the corner.

some projects will be completed by then. Load shedding will be very less in 2017. also the Govt should some how completely stop the stealing of electricity

By 2017 there won't be any load shedding because there won't be any load ...

He has been singing the same song for the last 20 years.

If the PM decides to stop spending money on the PM and President house,it can be achieved before the end of this year.

There will be no electricity in 2017, so there will also be no need for load sheding.

Joke on US ,poor public

In short,PML-N will make a commitment,make promises,show money spent,cut ribbons.Come 2017,no PML-N,no plants,only load shedding will remain once everyone is gone,come the next term,the next government will pick up where the last one left off.People will continue to suffer and get lied to.

You have fool the nation 20+ times . How many more Mr PM. If you can fool the nation this many time , it is not fault Mr PM. Only the nation to be belame.

I think I hear this from every PM who has been elected since Benazir days.

Sir The present government will go home before 2017 and new government will give a new date and this menace will go on The real hope lies if someone like Ayatullah Ruhullah Khomeini comes and rid Pakistan of these inept and corrupt politicians!!! Until then Pakistan ka khuda hi hafiz

Proof is in the pudding Mr.PM,what you see is what you believe,you made promises before elections to eliminate the energy crisis and load shedding in 6 months,now you are saying there is no easy fix,it will take until 2017,to me this is just another promise like all the other unfilled ones Mr.PM,its a same old story different day.

2% less production compared to last year, how come it's less load shedding this year?

Just wondering when our PM will stop making such empty claims/statements and start doing something ?.

I read all the comments. No one seems to believe the PM's 2017 date. Based on my life long experience as engineer in USA, in my judgement, no big change is possible and the status qua is going to continue much beyond 2017. Mr. PM, you need to issue a white paper on energy crisis, and explain to people your plan for generation and distribution of electricity in Pakistan. Without that, you and your ministers look like fools when talking about ending load shedding.

I have heard enough promises from this guy. He ain't worth it.

Another lie by the PM.

How? In 24 months you will need Aladin's chiraagh. He's the same PM who promised he will double our exports in two years, that was two years ago!

What a great lie?

Sharif brothers , please spare us with forecast , 6 months, 1 year ,2 year ? One of your minister said 2018 - I guess we should for your information minister Pervez Rashid to come up with another date !