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Pak: Traders stage rallies, shutter-down strikes against inflation, rising
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Amid increasing inflation and hiked power tariff, traders observed a shutter-down strike and took to the streets across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday.
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Pakistan: Jammat-e-Islami leader calls for shutter-down strike against inf
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Jammat-e-Islami (JI) leader Ameer Sirajul Haq announced that a shutter-down strike will be observed across the country on Saturday to protest against rising inflation in the country, ARY News reported.
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Pakistan caretaker Finance Minister rules out relief in power bills
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Pakistan caretaker Finance Minister Shamshad Akhtar on Wednesday told senators and the electricity consumers to “manage (their) expectations” raised by caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar for relief in excessive power bills, saying the country’s fiscal space did not permit any subsid
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Pakistan: Gojra Saddar police books 158 people for protesting against infl
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Pakistan’s Gojra Saddar police on Tuesday registered two cases against 158 people for protesting against inflated power bills and blocking the M-4 at two points between Gojra and Toba Tek Singh interchanges on Monday, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: Protests over exorbitant electricity bills refuse to die down
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
As the protests nationwide protests continue, a high-level meeting was held on Monday to address the issue.
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Pakistan: Political parties join protests over inflated-electricity bills
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Adding to the ongoing protest on inflated power bills, political party activists joined the common citizens in staging demonstrations in the provincial capital and other regions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reported The News International.
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Pak energy ministry chalks out proposal to tackle inflated power bills
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Caretaker Information Minister of Pakistan, Murtaza Solangi, stated on Monday that the energy ministry has prepared recommendations to address the problem of exorbitant power bills, which has led to nationwide protests, and that they will be presented in the federal cabinet meeting on Tuesda
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Pakistan: MQM-P leader warns protests over inflated power bills could turn
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said that it was time to review the national power supply policy which he stressed was in favour of certain classes and exploited the poor.
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Protest continues over inflated power bills, Pak interim PM to hold second
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Following Pakistan Interim Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar held an emergency meeting on Sunday over inflated-power bills, consumers continued to stage protests in the country on Monday as the government would hold another round of meeting today to discuss the issue, reported Dawn.
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Pakistan caretaker PM Kakar holds emergency meeting over inflated electric
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Amid country-wide protests over inflated power bills, Pakistan Interim Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar held an emergency meeting on Sunday over the rising issue of electricity rates and inflated consumer bills, reported Dawn.
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Imran Khan's PTI blames Shehbaz Sharif-led govt for inflated power bills
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) blamed the Pakistan Muslim League-N party for the expensive electricity and also warned that the raye might jump around Pakistani Rupee (PKR) 85 per unit in the next few months.
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Protesters torch thousands of power bills in Rawalakot, PoK
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Several people gathered at the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir's Rawalakot and torched thousands of electricity bills.
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