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Pakistan: After Sindh and Punjab, Islamabad limits operational hours to combat current energy crisis
Pakistan Energy Crisis
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Pakistan: After Sindh and Punjab, Islamabad limits operational hours to combat current energy crisis

| @indiablooms | 20 Jun 2022, 07:41 pm

Islamabad: Pakistan's capital city Islamabad will now limit their operational hours of markets, shopping malls, wedding halls and restaurants in an effort to tackle the current energy crisis, a step previously taken by other regions like Sindh and Punjab.

Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Irfan Nawaz Memon shared the notification on Twitter on Sunday.

The order stated that all shops, shopping malls, bakeries and confectioneries, offices, storerooms, godowns, warehouses and cattle markets would close at 9pm. Further, the timings of marriage halls, marquees and exhibition halls would be limited to 10:00 pm, reports Dawn News.

All establishments (commercial or industrial), restaurants, clubs, tandoors, eateries, cafes, cinemas, theatres or other places of public amusement and public parks would close at 11:30 pm, it added.

However, hospitals and laboratories, clinics, pharmacies and medical stores, petrol pumps, milk shops and other essential businesses were exempt from following the timings.

The notification, which also detailed the reasons for the move, stated that the order would come into force "with immediate effect" and would remain in place for two months.

The notification stated that it was "necessary to enforce certain restrictions on non-essential businesses so that this prevalent emergency of the energy shortfall may be controlled in Islamabad Capital Territory".
 

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