{"id":601068,"date":"2023-09-02T09:25:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T03:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=601068"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:46:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T04:16:15","slug":"pak-caretaker-fm-rules-out-relief-in-power-bills-says-no-space-for-subsidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pak-caretaker-fm-rules-out-relief-in-power-bills-says-no-space-for-subsidy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak caretaker FM rules out relief in power bills, says no space for subsidy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan caretaker Finance Minister Shamshad Akhtar on Wednesday told senators and the electricity consumers to &#8220;manage (their) expectations&#8221; raised by caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar for relief in excessive power bills, saying the country&#8217;s fiscal space did not permit any subsidy or relief, Dawn reported. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please manage your expectations,&#8221; she said apparently after engagements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the government&#8217;s desire for some programme relaxations to provide relief in power bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan caretaker Finance Minister Shamshad Akhtar on Wednesday told senators and the electricity consumers to &#8220;manage (their) expectations&#8221; raised by caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar for relief in excessive power bills, saying the country&#8217;s fiscal space did not permit any subsidy or relief, Dawn reported. &#8220;Please manage your expectations,&#8221; she said apparently after engagements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the government&#8217;s desire for some programme relaxations to provide relief in power bills.<\/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-601068","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\/601068","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=601068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}