{"id":497500,"date":"2022-06-09T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T06:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=497500"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T06:35:04","slug":"to-fix-energy-crisis-pak-shortens-work-week-bans-weddings-after-10pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/to-fix-energy-crisis-pak-shortens-work-week-bans-weddings-after-10pm\/","title":{"rendered":"To fix energy crisis, Pak shortens work week, bans weddings after 10pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan is fighting an energy crisis and its people have experienced hours-long power cuts over the past month. More than one factor has been seen as contributing to the current situation \u2013 including soaring global fuel prices, local currency hitting record lows (against the dollar), and rising temperature leading to increasing power demand \u2013 and forcing the Shehbaz Sharif-led administration to take energy-saving measures to help the country.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a lowdown of steps taken to help Pak out of the power crisis:<\/p>\n<p>&gt; Pakistan has ended its six-day work-week for government employees, Bloomberg said. The decision to work a sixth day &#8211; Saturday &#8211; was taken by prime minister Sherif to increase productivity but has backfired as it struggles to deal with the increased electricity and fuel demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan is fighting an energy crisis and its people have experienced hours-long power cuts over the past month. More than one factor has been seen as contributing to the current situation \u2013 including soaring global fuel prices, local currency hitting record lows (against the dollar), and rising temperature leading to increasing power demand \u2013 and forcing the Shehbaz Sharif-led administration to take energy-saving measures to help the country. Here&#8217;s a lowdown of steps taken to help Pak out of the power crisis: &gt; Pakistan has ended its six-day work-week for government employees, Bloomberg said. The decision to work a sixth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497500","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}