Govt Starts Implementing EV Charging Infrastructure Policy
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
The federal government has begun implementing its Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Infrastructure Policy, with detailed plans submitted to the Senate, officials told ProPakistani.
Under the policy, the Ministry of Industries and Production, alongside the Power Division, has been granted authority to frame rules and regulations for EV infrastructure. Seventy-two distribution companies have already received licenses to operate EV chargers.
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The government aims to establish 3,000 EV charging stations nationwide by 2030, including 240 new stations in the current fiscal year. These stations will be developed with contributions from both public and private sectors.
Monitoring and regulation of the EV charging network will be carried out by the Industries and Production Ministry, Power Division, and NEPRA, with relevant institutions given special powers to facilitate the rollout.
Reference Link:- https://propakistani.pk/2025/11/27/govt-starts-implementing-ev-charging-infrastructure-policy/
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
