LAHORE: Minister of State for Water and Power Chaudhry Abid Sher Ali said on Tuesday that there would be zero load-shedding across Pakistan except for the areas where people do not pay their electricity bills and the power theft ratio is high. He was briefing the media about power transmission and generation projects here at WAPDA House, where National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) Managing Director Dr Fiaz Ahmad Chaudhry and GM (GSC-Grid System Construction) Wajahat Saeed Rana were also present. Abid Sher said that with swift completion of energy projects, initiated by the incumbent government, load-shedding duration has substantially been reduced from 18 hours in 2013 to three hours only currently. This summer, he added, there would be three-hour power outages in urban and four hours in rural areas daily, and the government is striving to ensure zero or shortest duration of load-shedding in the upcoming Ramadan. APP/VNS, Lahore
