Lahore:
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday announced a great relief for flooders who conducted electricity distribution companies (discos) to immediately stop collecting August 2025 electricity bills in flood -affected areas.
The Prime Minister was chairman of a high -level meeting on the issue, the Prime Minister said a comprehensive relief package regarding electricity bills for the affected regions would be completed and announced after the end of the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
He also instructed discos to adjust bills already paid by flooded consumers in August 2025 in the coming months.
Shehbaz, which highlighted the extent of destruction, said flooding had displaced and affected millions of people over Pakistan. “In this difficult time, we make every effort to ease the pain of our people,” he added.
He said federal and provincial institutions were fully involved in rescue and rehabilitation operations. “We will not rest until each flood victim has returned to their homes,” he promised.
Torrential rain and floods have caused great loss of life and property in northern Pakistan-Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa-and-together Punjab. While flood levels are now stabilized in Punjab, Sindh remains threatened.
Meanwhile, the federal minister of power Sardar Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari on Saturday expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for his timely and folk -friendly decision to waive electricity bills for flood -affected areas.
In a statement, the minister said that electricity bills from August had been completely waived for consumers in the flood regions. He added that the amounts already collected would be repaid to the people.
“The Power division will ensure immediate implementation of the Prime Minister’s Directive,” Leghari said, confirming the government’s obligation to provide relief to citizens who face difficulties due to flooding.
Express Pakinomist had reported on Saturday that the government decided to provide relief in the electricity bills to consumers and sought the NIKK International Monetary Fund for this purpose.
Following the prime minister’s instructions, the ministry held a virtual meeting with the IMF and sought its endorsement for waiving the bills, they added.
The Pakistani authorities requested the IMF to postpone the bills for three months on the grounds that similar relief had been offered in 2022 in the flooded affected areas. The IMF has searched more data that Power Division would provide within this week.
Sources said consumers in the Lahore Electricity Supply Supply Supply Company, Gujranwala Electric Power Company, Faisalabad Electricity Supply Supply and Multan Electric Power Company have been adversely affected by Bible flood. There are chances that consumers of SUKKUR Electric Power Company will also be affected by the floods.
