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Provincial General Secretary of the Central Traders Organization Zahir Shah appealed to the Prime Minister to announce the immediate abolition of various types of taxes, slab system and peak hours to further reduce electricity bills and thanks to this struggle, today the price of electricity has been reduced for millions of Pakistanis which we welcome. Falak Sher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARDAN: Provincial General Secretary of the Central Traders Organization Zahir Shah said that while welcoming the government package of reducing electricity tariffs Rs. 7.41 for domestic consumers, Rs. 7.69 for commercial consumers and Rs. 7.59 for industries per unit), he thanked Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif and his team that this revolutionary move by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-471116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-peshawar"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>We welcome the government\u2019s decision to reduce electricity prices. 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