Politics & Governance / Pakistan

PM orders nationwide two-hour loadshedding limit

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered power cuts to be limited to two hours and directed distribution companies to form consumer grievance committees.

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What happened

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered power cuts to be limited to two hours and directed distribution companies to form consumer grievance committees.

Why it matters

The order paired a nationwide loadshedding ceiling with a new complaint-handling mechanism.

The development was reported on 2026-09-11. Details in this account reflect information available in the reporting snapshot for that date and should be read as a contemporaneous record.

Sources & reporting notes

This is a contemporaneous summary of published reporting, not eyewitness reporting. The source archive was reviewed on 2026-09-11.

  1. Dawn — News archive for 2026-09-112026-09-11 · Date-bounded reporting archive.