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Pakistan's electrical and energy industry at large — manufacturers, contractors, traders, and the cross-cutting trends that connect them.
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Cummins' new HSK78 2MW lean-burn gas generator targets Pakistani manufacturers, hospitals, and data centres facing chronic load shedding — promising full single-step load acceptance and stable operation on the variable-quality gas Pakistani sites actually get.
Pakistan's foreign direct investment fell 31 per cent to $1.409 billion in the first ten months of FY2026, with April recording a particularly weak $54 million net inflow. The power sector was the top destination for foreign capital at $785.6 million, outpacing all other industries despite ongoing tariff and capacity payment pressures.
NHA contractors protested in Karachi over Rs. 4.2 billion in unpaid invoices — a standoff structurally identical to the payment-chain failure that drove Pakistan's power-sector circular debt past Rs. 2.5 trillion.
Pakistan's electrical engineering firms — switchgear, transformers, cabling — collectively hold over Rs. 240 billion in active power-sector contracts, employing 95,000 directly across the industry.
Pakistan's value-added leather sector has asked the federal government to reduce high production costs, simplify multi-tier compliance, and rationalise industrial duties in the upcoming budget. Industry representatives met Commerce Minister Jam Kamal Khan in Islamabad on Thursday, flagging that elevated energy and input costs are limiting the sector's export growth.
India has raised retail fuel prices for the first time in four years as global crude oil surges above $120 per barrel following Strait of Hormuz disruptions tied to the Iran conflict. Pakistan faces direct exposure through NEPRA fuel cost adjustments on electricity bills and rising LNG import costs.
Gautam Adani and his nephew have agreed to pay an $18 million US civil penalty linked to an alleged $250 million scheme to bribe Indian officials for solar energy contracts, without admitting guilt. US prosecutors are separately reported to be preparing to drop the associated criminal charges entirely.