ISLAMABAD: The industrial sector in the country will have to bear the bruntof power outages of 10 hours daily. All the slogans and claims of thegovernment of ending power outages seem to have been a mirage and havecreated a stir in the textile ranks.
The government’s decision to enforce 10-hour power outages on theindustrial sector stoked worries in the ranks of the influential textilelobby and they immediately went to Islamabad for convincing the governmentto change its decision.
Back to back meetings with Finance Minister Dr Miftah Ismail were held onWednesday by the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) andNational Assembly speaker Ayyaz Sadiq.
But both voiced their inability to provide assurances and the issue willnow be discussed in an Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinetmeeting on Thursday (today).