ISLAMABAD, Jan 10: Pakistan has sought the financial and technical assistance of Germany to overcome the massive power shortfall that the country faces in the immediate future.

Pakistan is likely to experience a power shortfall of 1,000MW to 2,000MW in the summer season this year.

Official sources told Dawn on Wednesday that Germany would be proposing short- and long-term measures to deal with the crisis.

Representatives of GTZ, a German agency for technical cooperation, and officials of the Statistics Division have been working out a plan to propose fresh measures to overcome power shortage.

"We are trying to gauge input and output of various industries to know how many units of electricity they are consuming or wasting," Mr Bernd Struck, an official of the GTZ and the Principal Adviser to the Statistics Division, told Dawn. "Hopefully by June this year, we will complete our recommendations and submit it to the government," he said.