{"id":16554,"date":"2024-08-02T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=16554"},"modified":"2024-08-02T04:02:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T04:02:10","slug":"16554","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=16554","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President&nbsp; for a viable solution to rising energy costs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240802-WA0017-1024x569.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240802-WA0017-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240802-WA0017-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240802-WA0017-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240802-WA0017-1536x853.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240802-WA0017-2048x1138.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamabad : President Asif Ali Zardari has called for finding a win-win solution to address the issue of rising energy costs in the country. He proposed that the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) should form a committee and work with the President\u2019s office to develop a viable solution to the issue of paying capacity charges to Independent Power Producers (IPPs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President gave these remarks while talking to a delegation of FPCCI comprising of businessmen and office-bearers of 40 regional business associations, led by Dr Gohar Ejaz, at Aiwan-e-Sadr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talking to the delegation, the President announced that the President\u2019s office would collaborate with a smaller committee from the business community to find a win-win solution for the Government, the people, the business community and IPPs. He urged the for evolving a consensus solution so that none of stakeholders lose out. He said that he was aware of the problems being faced by Pakistani businesses, that were in a \u201ctriple-whammy\u201d due to high input, energy, and fuel costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Gohar Ejaz highlighted that rising energy costs were overburdening the people, industry, agriculture and exports sector. He emphasised the need for reforming the energy sector to bring down energy prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Gohar Ejaz requested the President to intervene in the matter and play his role in resolving the issues faced by Pakistan\u2019s industries and businesses due to high electricity prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President assured the delegation of his support in coming up with a solution to their problems and taking up the matter with relevant quarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President&nbsp; for a viable solution to rising energy costs Islamabad : President Asif Ali Zardari has called for finding a win-win solution to address the issue of rising energy costs&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[189,40],"class_list":["post-16554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-stories","tag-islamabad-chamber-of-commerce-and-industry-icci","tag-president-of-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16556,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554\/revisions\/16556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}