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Pakistan's quiet solar rush puts pressure on national grid
Pakistan's quiet solar rush puts pressure on national grid
Economy
by  AFP

Pakistanis are increasingly ditching the national grid in favour of solar power, prompting a boom in rooftop panels and spooking a government weighed down by billions of dollars of power sector debt. But the fall in national grid consumers has crept up on an unprepared government burdened by $8 billion of power sector debt, analysts say.