The Pakistan Power Sector is always in the news – primarily, for its perceived and actual inefficiency and the consumer-end tariffs that most cannot digest. The people would want immediate amelioration of their problems.

Most of the time, it is forgotten that consumer indiscipline too is a serious issue to contend-with and that there are other externalities that do not allow distribution operations to meet the laid down standards etc.

Another facet of the problem that experts highlight could be the long and continued indifference to the ongoing rot. It is also sadly forgotten that the poor DISCOs are required to operate profitably on face of the below par and expensive power generation (all due to inherent problems), the extreme burden of badly negotiated IPPs PPAs, a brittle grid, a lackluster rand a nearly non-professional regulator and the inappropriately meddling governmental entities.

Some experts also liken the situation to the ever mushrooming encroachments in urban areas, which need a near military action to correct but it is forgotten that the military action to correct the wayward DISCOs during 1998-2004 had resulted in a great loss in shape of migrating professionals to the then El-Dorodos of the world.

While accepting whatever has been stated in the preceding paragraph, it is still a fact that the DISCOs are not appropriately functioning and nor are they able to serve their clientele. In order to look towards........

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