Lahore: The electricity load-shedding has intensified across Pakistan especially in Punjab as shortfall has reached its highest peak of 8000 megawatt, sources said on Monday.
The sources in Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) said that the shortfall reached to 8000 megawatt due to non-payment of dues to power distribution companies.
“Payments of around 42 billion is due on PEPCO,” they said adding that the distribution companies has stopped electricity production.
The shortfall created a disastrous situation in Lahore, a metropolitan of Pakistan, where most of the areas were feeling the heat of loadsheeding.
In the mean while the loadshedding in different cities and villages of Punjab has reached around 22 hours in a day.
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