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Targeted power subsidies: PM sets up ministerial body to devise strategy

Pakistan Published 26 October 2026, 04:07 · archived 25 Oct 2026

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has constituted a high-level ministerial committee, headed by Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Minister Ahsan Iqbal, to formulate a comprehensive strategy for rationalisation of power-sector subsidies and their gradual transition towards a targeted support mechanism, linked with the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). The committee is headed by Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal and includes Rana Sanaullah Khan, Sardar Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari, Dr Musaddak Malik, Ahad Khan Cheema, Shaza Fatim...

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