00:05Shops and markets across Pakistan began closing at 8pm on Tuesday, following a new nationwide
00:12directive aimed at conserving energy.
00:14The government announced the measure a day earlier as part of an urgent response to the
00:18ongoing energy crisis and rising fuel costs.
00:21Under the new rules, bazaars, markets and shopping malls in provinces including Punjab,
00:27Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan as well as Islamabad, Gilgit, Baltistan and Azad, Jammu and Kashmir
00:34must shut by 8pm.
00:57The store is opened and opened.
00:58The small stores are opened.
00:59The small stores are killed.
01:01Don't do this.
01:03If you make the law, make the law, make the law, then you close the entire Pakistan.
01:07The people who are in the morning are going to the office at 9am, in the evening, they
01:10are coming to the office, they are coming to the house, they are coming to the shop.
01:14They are coming to the shop, so here are the shops closed.
01:30Under the new rules, essential services, including medical stores and pharmacies, remain exempt.
01:37Food outlets, including restaurants, bakeries and tandoors, may operate until 10 p.m.,
01:44while wedding halls are also permitted to remain open until that time.
01:47However, private home celebrations must end by 10 p.m.
01:52Businesses in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been granted a slightly later deadline of 9 p.m.
01:58The government has also introduced additional cost-saving measures,
02:02including a 50 percent reduction in fuel allowances for government departments
02:06and a temporary shift to a four-day work week for public offices.
02:15To be continued...
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