{"id":446120,"date":"2026-05-26T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/446120\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:21:13","slug":"pakistan-offers-up-3-state-owned-power-distributors-in-privatization-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/446120\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan offers up 3 state-owned power distributors in privatization push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/business-deals\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Business deals<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Some experts view them as &#8216;crown jewels&#8217; while others warn of inheriting endemic risks<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20260526 The Islamabad Electric Supply Company\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A power grid station of Islamabad Electric Supply (IESCO) in Islamabad on\u00a0April 16. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">ISLAMABAD &#8212; Pakistan has launched the privatization of three major electricity distribution companies as part of a broader effort to raise government revenue, reduce inefficiencies in the power sector, and meet reform commitments under its program with the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business deals Some experts view them as &#8216;crown jewels&#8217; while others warn of inheriting endemic risks A power&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[25490,138,29748,219,111,139,69,8617,2476,10112,142157,15400,193373],"class_list":["post-446120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-25490","tag-business","tag-distributors","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-offers","tag-pakistan","tag-power","tag-privatization","tag-push","tag-state-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}