ISLAMABAD: The government has exempted the industrial sector from power load-shedding and currently uninterrupted power is being supplied to the industry in order to meet export orders. "Zero power outage is being observed for the industrial sector of the country for the last three weeks," Officials sources told APP. They said the power generation situation in the country has significantly improved and only a 2000 MW power shortfall was recorded.

The sources said six-hour and eight-hour loadshedding was being carried out in the urban and rural areas of the country. They said that the government has expedited work on various power projects having accumulative capacity of 10,500MW with the assistance of China. The menace of load-shedding would be over after completion of this short-term power projects, they said.

Copyright Associated Press of Pakistan, 2015