Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Tuesday claimed that the incumbent government had added 10,000 megawatts (MWs) of electricity to the national grid.
Addressing a news conference about energy projects in the federal capital earlier today, the prime minister claimed that 35 percent surplus electricity, amounting to 6,000MWs, had been produced in 2018.
Abbasi noted that the country has the capacity to produce 28,400MWs electricity.
While the incumbent government has claimed to have eliminated the electricity crisis, the country has suffered from intermittent load shedding.
Earlier this month, on May 16, power supply to several cities, including Lahore, Faisalabad, Peshawar, Swat, Multan, Bahawalpur, and Muzaffargarh, had remained suspended for several hours.
The breakdown resulted from tripping of Guddu-Muzaffargarh power line, which led to faults at Tarbela and Guddu power stations, as well as other power plants.
The Federal Secretary of Power Division Yousuf Naseem Khokhar on May 18 had taken a leave from office amid the major power crisis across the country.
