Overview
- The prime minister ordered that no area face more than two hours of load‑shedding, a directive issued during a high‑level review on Friday and aimed at limiting prolonged outages reported across provinces.
- Officials told the meeting that disruptions to regasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG) supplies and transport problems reduced generation capacity, forcing authorities to manage demand and move to restore RLNG transmission urgently.
- Regulator NEPRA has intervened in Karachi by ordering K‑Electric to stop unannounced and excessive feeder cuts, and the PM directed all distribution companies to set up Consumer Grievance Redressal Committees within one week with public representatives.
- Journalists and sources report an overall shortfall above 4,000 megawatts with LESCO’s shortfall cited around 1,200MW, and some areas in Khyber‑Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh experiencing double‑digit hours of daily outages before the cap.
- The crisis is raising costs and political pressure: government spot purchases of expensive RLNG cargoes and a sharp rise in RLNG‑based generation costs are pushing up tariffs and feeding wider debates about capacity payments, plant utilization and sector reform.