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Pakistan’s Energy Crisis – The Ever-growing Energy Crisis

August 16, 2024 No Comments

Energy Crisis of Pakistan: Frequent loadshedding, lack of electricity for consecutive hours in many regions and still high cost of electricity and gas bills has people in the country beyond frustrated and helpless. This has been the case ever since many of us were young enough to register the familiar times electricity wouldn’t be available […]

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