Pakistan’s Government has ordered electricity supply to be shut off to Parliament and the Supreme Court, among some of the main State institutions, due to non-payment of bills, said local media.
Minister of State for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali announced at a Press conference the decision to shut off the power supply to 18 official agencies. He stated that a campaign against electricity theft and payment default has been started on the order of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
The Prime Minister’s Secretariat also is one of the offices to be hit by the new order, along with the headquarters of the highway police, the chief justice’s residence, and the Town Hall of Islamabad among others.