JI urges Nepra to take back FAC notification.

KARACHI -- The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) should withdraw notification of Fuel Adjustment Charges (FAC), Karachi Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehamn demanded.

Condemning collecting proposed Rs 21 billion from consumers on head of FAC in next nine months, he impressed upon Karachi Electric (K-E) to desist from this act as power entity has already failed to provide any relief to power consumers in past.

Earlier Karachi power consumers were burdened with Rs 62 billion on account of inflated billing by K-E and this act would further burden consumers afresh...