{"id":30389,"date":"2017-11-11T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30389"},"modified":"2017-11-11T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T11:00:43","slug":"pml-n-govt-made-history-by-completing-energy-related-projects-rapidly-shehbaz-sharif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30389","title":{"rendered":"PML-N Govt made history by completing energy-related projects rapidly: Shehbaz Sharif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE Nov 11 (TNS): In a bid to overcome ongoing power outages in the country, Chief Minister of Punjab (CM) Shehbaz Sharif says that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government made history by completing energy-related projects rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Economist, labourers built the entire Sahiwal Power Plant in a record 22 months, a year faster than is typical.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30390\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Sahiwal-Power-Plant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Sahiwal-Power-Plant.jpg 700w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Sahiwal-Power-Plant-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Sahiwal-Power-Plant-696x398.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven at home we don\u2019t work this hard,\u201d says the chief engineer of the Chinese power company that operates Sahiwal, describing how floodlights were hung from cranes so construction could continue through the night.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab CM said, \u201cWe will remove the darkness from Pakistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30392\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30392\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/shahbaz-at-sahiwal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/shahbaz-at-sahiwal.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/shahbaz-at-sahiwal-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">APP41-07<br \/>SAHIWAL: May 07 \u0096 Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif visiting control room of 1320 MW Coal Power Project. APP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Economist further stated a shortage of generation was just one of the electricity market\u2019s woes. Yet inefficiency and theft lead to the loss of about 18% of the power generated one of the reasons why industry ends up paying such high tariffs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30391\" src=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sahiwal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sahiwal.jpg 700w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sahiwal-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tns.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sahiwal-696x398.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuch of the new power comes from private coal-fired plants like Sahiwal, built by Chinese firms as part of a $38bn investment in the power sector under a joint development scheme called the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC),\u201d it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE Nov 11 (TNS): In a bid to overcome ongoing power outages in the country, Chief Minister of Punjab (CM) Shehbaz Sharif says that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government made history by completing energy-related projects rapidly. According to The Economist, labourers built the entire Sahiwal Power Plant in a record 22 months, a year faster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,23],"tags":[157,589],"class_list":["post-30389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lahore","category-national","tag-lahore","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30393,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389\/revisions\/30393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}