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Federal and provincial energy policy — Power Division decisions, IGCEPs, IMF conditions, and the regulatory frameworks shaping the next decade.
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Pakistan's Senate on Thursday adopted 123 budget recommendations for FY2026-27, including calls for lower electricity tariffs, removal of fixed charges and GST from bills, and a transparent roadmap to reduce capacity payments and circular debt. The proposals are non-binding on the National Assembly, which will review them before casting the final budget vote.
Pakistan's distribution companies have rolled out a redesigned electricity bill format as part of a Ministry of Energy initiative. The new layout applies across all nine publicly owned DISCOs and aims to help millions of consumers better understand their monthly electricity charges.
The Sindh government has confirmed plans to shift the Red Line BRT project to electric buses powered by a dedicated biogas plant, in what would be Pakistan's first closed-loop transport electrification deployment in a tier-1 city.
The Power Division has formed an 18-member task force to draft Pakistan's first comprehensive Waste-to-Energy policy, aiming to close regulatory gaps and attract investment into a sector that has until now operated piecemeal under generic IPP and renewable rules.
Pakistan's ECNEC has formally approved the Diamer Basha Dam, ML-1 railway modernisation, and Thar Rail Connectivity projects at a sitting chaired by Deputy PM Ishaq Dar on 11 June 2026. The approvals carry long-term implications for hydropower capacity, coal supply logistics, and electricity tariff stability across Pakistan.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has directed officials to accelerate the privatisation of IESCO, GEPCO and FESCO, three distribution companies that together serve more than 14 million consumers across Punjab, Islamabad and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Investor roadshows targeting Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and China are planned for June 2026, with expressions of interest due by the first quarter of the next fiscal year.
Pakistan and Tajikistan have agreed to hold a Joint Working Group meeting in Istanbul this month to finalise the outstanding commercial and operational terms for the CASA-1000 regional electricity supply project. The decision was reached at the 8th Joint Commission session in Dushanbe, co-chaired by Power Minister Sardar Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari, with both sides emphasising the need for timely project operationalisation.
Power Minister Awais Leghari has ordered immediate disciplinary proceedings against underperforming officers across all Pakistani DISCOs after a six-month audit of the 118 helpline system found tens of thousands of consumer complaints resolved late or left unattended. PESCO and SEPCO have already suspended identified officers, with all remaining DISCOs directed to follow suit.
Pakistan's Federal Minister for Power has ordered disciplinary action against more than 100 SDOs and XENs identified as chronic underperformers across the country's electricity distribution companies. Suspensions have already begun at PESCO in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and SEPCO in interior Sindh, with officers at all other government-managed DISCOs also placed on notice.
Power Minister Awais Leghari confirmed that negotiations with CPEC-linked Chinese power producers have produced no meaningful concessions despite ongoing efforts at debt-reprofiling. Pakistan has secured over Rs. 3.5 trillion in savings by renegotiating deals with 29 other private and state-owned power plants, but CPEC's government-to-government framework makes similar concessions far more diplomatically complex.