KARACHI: In line with the federal government’s plan for effective measures to reduce loadshedding by conserving energy through a national strategy, the Sindh government on Tuesday extended for one month restrictions on timing of all commercial activities across the province but this time gave exception to more businesses and other essential services.

On June 17, the Sindh government put a bar on timing of commercial activities and asked shopping malls, business centres, shops and trading houses to close their business by 9pm. Similarly, the second category included wedding halls, banquets and venues hosting marriage-related ceremonies. All such concerns were asked to close by 10:30pm.

However, for the third category that included hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, cafes, gyms, cinemas, etc the closure time was fixed at 11:30pm.

The restrictions of timings remained the same for all three categories but in the fresh notification the Sindh home department allowed more businesses to operate with exception.

The Sindh government notification will remain in place till August 16.

Published in Dawn, July 20th, 2022