LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz held an unscheduled meeting in Islamabad on Monday to discuss power generation projects. It was chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif cancelled his local assignments and flew to Islamabad to attend the extensive meeting planned on Sunday evening.

The media was kept in the dark about the meeting or its outcome.

An official privy to the development said that the government was worried at the electricity shortage situation and how the issue was being raised by the media against it.

He said the government feared that if it failed to overcome loadshedding, it would prove to be the `real opposition` in the 2018 general elections.

The Punjab chief minister, considered an authority on water and power issues by the party, informed the participants about the likely completion of various generation projects under construction in the province.

He was quoted as assuring the meeting that at least 2,200 megawatts would be added to the national grid duringthecurrentcalendar year from these projects.