{"id":497335,"date":"2022-06-09T09:06:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T03:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=497335"},"modified":"2022-06-09T09:39:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T04:09:04","slug":"five-day-work-week-curtailed-foreign-trips-as-pak-battles-an-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/five-day-work-week-curtailed-foreign-trips-as-pak-battles-an-energy-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-day work week, curtailed foreign trips as Pak battles an energy crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facing a severe energy crisis, Pakistan government has announced that it will revert to five-day work week as part of its energy conservation plan.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s information minister on Tuesday announced that that country&#8217;s cabinet has approved to end Saturdays as workday, a step that will reduce the nation&#8217;s energy and fuel consumption as hours-long power outages continue to hit the Shehbaz Sharif-led country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are facing a severe crisis&#8230; We desperately need to take energy conservation measures. We need to tap on every option to save on energy,&#8221; Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing a severe energy crisis, Pakistan government has announced that it will revert to five-day work week as part of its energy conservation plan. Pakistan&#8217;s information minister on Tuesday announced that that country&#8217;s cabinet has approved to end Saturdays as workday, a step that will reduce the nation&#8217;s energy and fuel consumption as hours-long power outages continue to hit the Shehbaz Sharif-led country. &#8220;We are facing a severe crisis&#8230; We desperately need to take energy conservation measures. We need to tap on every option to save on energy,&#8221; Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}