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The Pakistan State Oil''s (PSO) liabilities against power sector have surged to Rs205 billion and resultantly the company has reduced fuel supply to the power sector, it is learnt.

Provincial Minister for Law Rana Sanaullah Khan has said that the worst loadshedding is the result of the wrong policies of the federal government which has pushed the country into the Stone Age. He said that injustice was being done with the Punjab province with regard to load shedding and the 20-hour long outages had made the life of the people miserable.
The shortfall in electricity supply and demand again surged to 4,500-megawatt level on Sunday after hydel power generation dipped to 3,973 MW because of abnormally low water flow in River Indus and the Tarbela reservoir hit dead level, a Spokesman National Transmission and Dispatch Company Ltd said.
The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has clamped immediate ban on the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) in public transport vehicles to prevent deadly accidents, ease gas shortage and improve gas pressure. The decision was taken in a meeting headed by the chairman Ogra here on Friday. The buses that have cylinders on roofs and underneath will be banned. Ban has been imposed after dialogue with the CNG Association.
All Pakistan CNG Association on Friday announced that it will observe strike on January 1, 2012 in protest against government''s decision of exorbitant hike in CNG prices and imposition of ban on public and commercial vehicles using CNG.
Water and Power Minister Naveed Qamar on Friday acknowledged that shortage of energy in the county "is one of the major impediments to economic growth". Talking to media at a local hotel, after the ground breaking ceremony of 50 MW Three Gorges Wind Farm, being established in Jhimpir, Thatha district.
A local scientist, Arbab Abdul Wakil, has invented machine for generation from untraditional mean through animals. Talking to Business Recorder, he said that in Pakistan beside, the main source of hydel energy, the other sources are oil, gas including nuclear energy and the whole country's power generation depends on these sources.

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