Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s Office Faces Power Cut Over Payment Dues

As per reports carried in the Pakistani media, the Pakistan Prime Minister’s Secretariat currently owes over 41 lakh rupees to the Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO).

Pakistan PM Imran Khan

New Delhi: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Secretariat faces disconnection of electricity supply over non-payment of bills running into crores of rupees. As per reports carried in the Pakistani media, the Pakistan Prime Minister’s Secretariat currently owes over 41 lakh rupees to the Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO). IESCO issued a notice to this effect on Wednesday. For the previous month, this amount was 35 lakh rupees. According to sources close to IESCO, the Secretariat has failed to pay the dues in spite of several reminder notices. "This is a recurrent problem with the Secretariat. We will cut off the power supply if dues are not paid," an IESCO source was quoted as saying by news agency IANS. Power cuts have worsened in Pakistan in recent years, becoming one of the main sources of discontent in the South Asian nation, often leaving entire neighbourhoods without electricity for up to half a day in the sweltering summer months. The Imran Khan Government continues to remain peeved at India and its ministers have of late indulged in issuing war threat to India. A day after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi categorically rejected any third party mediation scope on Kashmir issue, Imran Khan issued a nuclear threat to India. A day after that, country’s federal minister Fawad Chaudhary said that the PTI government has decided to bring about a complete closure of its airspace for India and also a ban on land used by India for trade route wit Afghanistan. On Wednesday again, Railway Minister of Pakistan Rashid Ahmed said that a full-blown war between India and Pakistan is on the cards for the months of October and November.