--- title: "Experts urge promotion of electric cook stoves to reduce reliance on gas and wood" description: "Most outlets led with the call for promoting electric stoves to address reliance on gas and wood, emphasizing the need for government action and local manufacturing. One outlet added context about Pakistan’s current solar capacity and grid electricity surplus as enablers for the transition." url: https://harzaviya.com/stories/14561-govt-urged-to-promote-electric-stoves-local-manufacturing site: HarZaviya language: en --- # Experts urge promotion of electric cook stoves to reduce reliance on gas and wood pakistan · updated 16 Oct 2026, 7:19 AM PKT · 15–16 Oct 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets **HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts: > Most outlets led with the call for promoting electric stoves to address reliance on gas and wood, emphasizing the need for government action and local manufacturing. One outlet added context about Pakistan’s current solar capacity and grid electricity surplus as enablers for the transition. ## Same story from 2 outlets Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source. - **Business Recorder** — [Govt urged to promote electric stoves, local manufacturing](https://www.brecorder.com/news/40444497/govt-urged-to-promote-electric-stoves-local-manufacturing) · 16 Oct 2026, 7:19 AM PKT > ISLAMABAD: With only 51 percent of Pakistan’s population having access to clean cooking facilities, energy experts on Thursday urged the government to promote affordable electric stoves and local manufacturing to reduce dependence on imported gas, firewood and other traditional fuels. Speaking at a national consultation jointly organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) an... - **Associated Press of Pakistan** — [Experts call for scaling up electric cook stoves to ease gas & wood dependence](https://www.app.com.pk/national/experts-call-for-scaling-up-electric-cook-stoves-to-ease-gas-wood-dependence/) · 15 Oct 2026, 8:39 PM PKT · 83% identical wording to the newest filing > Speakers at a national consultative workshop on Thursday said that Pakistan's expanding solar capacity, surplus grid electricity and a growing market for electric cooking appliances offer a practical route to clean cooking, but that policy support, financing and affordable products suited to local cooking habits are needed to scale it up. 2 articles from 2 outlets, 15–16 Oct 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text. --- HarZaviya compares how Pakistani outlets cover the same story. It stores and shows each outlet's headline and a short excerpt, and links out — it never copies article text, and every headline belongs to the outlet that wrote it. It takes no stance on any outlet. Pages: [Top stories](https://harzaviya.com/) · [Latest headlines](https://harzaviya.com/feed) · [Archive](https://harzaviya.com/archive) · [Why](https://harzaviya.com/why) · [Sources](https://harzaviya.com/sources) · [Methodology](https://harzaviya.com/methodology) · [About](https://harzaviya.com/about) · [About the bot](https://harzaviya.com/about-bot) Trackers: [Gold prices](https://harzaviya.com/gold-prices) · [Fuel prices](https://harzaviya.com/fuel-prices) · [Stock exchange](https://harzaviya.com/stock-exchange) Any page on this site is available as markdown: send `Accept: text/markdown`, or add `.md` to the path.