Pakistan Media Coverage of CICTAR report

Pakistan media coverage of CICTAR’s Pakistan energy report

Pakistan’s, media has provided extensive coverage of CICTAR’s report (Paying More for Less: Payments and Profits in Pakistan's Privatised Power Sector), developed with public sector labour unions, Public Services International (PSI) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES).

This Followed a press conference at the National Press Club, where Labour Leaders spoke alongside CICTAR’s Ed Miller, lead author of the report.

The event was also covered in Sabah News, Daily Asian Sun, Lead Pakistan, Urdu News, ABN, TNS World and The Express 

Speaking at the press conference, Edward Miller, said policies designed to attract private investment had generated enormous profits for investors while burdening consumers with rising electricity prices without increasing actual power generation.

He warned that as more consumers leave the national grid due to soaring tariffs, the financial burden would increasingly fall on the country's most vulnerable citizens, adding that further privatisation of distribution companies would not resolve the structural problems created in the generation sector.

Addressing the media on the occasion, all Pakistan WAPDA Hydro Electric Workers Union (APWHEWU) President Abdul Latif Nizamani said WAPDA workers continued to power the country's economy at far lower costs while private companies received billions for idle assets.