Priority in Pakistan: Turn On Lights
From the Blog pakistanisforpeace By Saeed Shah for The Wall Street Journal [image: Image] When Nawaz Sharif starts his new term as Pakistan's prime minister on Wednesday, 14 years after he was ousted in a military coup, he will focus on turning on the lights in a nuclear-armed nation that has been increasingly starved of electricity. Power outages of 12 to 20 hours a day have crippled industry and made life miserable for households, a problem that worsened under the previous government of the Pakistan Peoples Party. Electricity shortages cost Pakistan some $13.5 billion a year, equivalent to knocking 1.5 percentage points off the economic-growth rate, Lahore's Beaconhouse National University said in a report this year. After Mr. Sharif is sworn in, he will deliver a speech outlining his strategy for solvingpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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