Published in The News on March 25, 1999
Will someone please explain what's happening? For years they used to tell us to conserve electricity, and now we're told to consume more if we want it cheaply. A week ago they wanted to raise electricity prices by 1.1 percent. Now they favour a reduction. The minister for power says that we have too much of it, while the finance wizard says we're headed for a crisis. We want India to buy energy from us at 7 cents a unit, but they won't pay more than two. As if all this wasn't enough, we now find that WAPDA supplies power to Karachi at rates, which are fifty percent higher than IPP's prices. Does anyone know what's going on?
Shakir Lakhani
Karachi
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