Pakistan recovers more than Rs 119 billion from defaulters due to electricity theft.

Good things are now coming out of the crackdown the Pakistani military leadership and administration conducted to revive the nation’s economy.

Details show that since the crackdown started, 85,572 electricity thieves have been detained, and Rs119.79 billion has been collected from those involved in the energy theft investigation.

Between September 24 and October 2, the appropriate institutions brought in almost one billion rupees from electrical thieves in Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Multan, Peshawar, Sukkur, Quetta, Hyderabad, and Islamabad.

242 power thieves were apprehended during the aforementioned time frame.

The then-caretaker federal government declared on September 6, 2018, that it will begin a nationwide campaign against electricity theft in an effort to lower the spiraling cyclical debt in the power industry.

Ten Pakistani distribution corporations, according to the power minister, lose a combined Rs 589 billion a year. According to him, the main reasons for this enormous loss are energy theft and unpaid electricity prices.

It is important to highlight that nationwide protests from Karachi to Khyber were sparked by the inflated electricity bills, and in certain regions of the nation, those rallies escalated into violence.