Claim: Gas would be available to consumers across Pakistan from 5:30 to 8:30 am, 11:30 to 1:30 pm, and 5:30 to 8:30 pm, according to a new countrywide supply schedule issued in September 2025.
Fact: No such schedule has been issued. One of the country’s two gas distributors, the SSGC, has published a rebuttal, terming the posts “entirely false”. The other, SNGPL, has not announced any new schedule.
On 15 and 16 September 2025, social media users claimed that a new gas supply schedule had been issued for Pakistan.
According to the new schedule, gas would be provided to consumers across the country from 5:30 to 8:30 am, 11:30 to 1:30 pm, and 5:30 to 8:30 pm, the posts asserted.
“پاکستان بھر کے لیے گیس کی فراہمی کا نیا شیڈول جاری کر دیا گیا ھے۔ شیڈول کے مطابق گیس درج ذیل اوقات میں دستیاب ھوگی۔
[A new schedule for gas supply has been issued for all of Pakistan. According to the schedule, gas will be available during the following hours.]”
“صبح کے وقت 5:30 سے 8:30 بجے تک۔ دوپہر کے وقت 11:30 سے 1:30 بجے تک۔ شام کے وقت 5:30 سے 8:30 بجے تک۔
[In the morning from 5:30 to 8:30 am. In the afternoon from 11:30 to 1:30 pm. In the evening from 5:30 to 8:30 pm.]”
“حکام کے مطابق ان اوقات کے علاوہ گیس کی فراہمی محدود یا مکمل طور پر بند رھے گی۔ عوام سے گزارش ھے کہ کھانا پکانے اور دیگر گھریلو ضروریات انہی اوقات میں مکمل کریں تا کہ مشکلات سے بچا جا سکے۔
[According to the authorities, gas supply will be limited or completely stopped outside these hours. The public is requested to complete cooking and other household needs during these hours to avoid problems.]”
Fact or Fiction?
There are two major companies that are responsible for the transmission and distribution of natural gas in Pakistan: the Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGC) and the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL). The former manages Sindh and Balochistan and the latter deals with Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
Soch Fact Check searched for news reports of a new countrywide gas schedule but did not find anything relevant apart from unsubstantiated social media posts containing the same claim.
We did, however, find a rebuttal for the claim on the SSGC’s website, titled, “Public Service Message – Pay no attention to gas load-shedding schedule circulating on social media as it is entirely false and misleading.”
The rebuttal — which was also posted on Facebook and Instagram — includes the following text:
“خبردار ! سوشل میڈیا پر گردش کرنے والی ایک افواہ جس میں جعلی شیڈول شائع کر کہ کہا رہا ہے کہ یہ سوئی سدرن گیس کا نیا شیڈول ہے، جو کہ سراسر غلط اور بے بنیاد ہے جارہا سوئی سدرن اس افواہ کی تردید کرتی ہے
[Warning! A rumour circulating on social media in which a fake schedule is being published saying that this is the new schedule of Sui Southern Gas, which is completely false and baseless, is going viral. Sui Southern denies this rumour.]”
On the other hand, while the SNGPL has not issued any such rebuttals, Soch Fact Check did not come across any announcement of a new schedule issued by it either. We have reached out to the company for a comment.
This is not the first time bogus gas schedules have gone viral on social media; similar posts have circulated in the past — and consequently debunked by Soch Fact Check — on 18 November 2021, 18 May 2023, and 28 March 2024.
Virality
Soch Fact Check found the claim circulating here, here, here, here, here, here, and here on Facebook, here, here, and here on Instagram, and here on Threads.
It was also shared on a blog.
Conclusion: No such schedule has been issued. One of the country’s two gas distributors, the SSGC, has published a rebuttal, terming the posts “entirely false”. The other, SNGPL, has not announced any new schedule.
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