Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has assured the business community that he himself would team up with business leaders in long march on the issue of gas curtailment in Punjab because federal government is behaving like a stepmother with industries in the province. Punjab chief minister was speaking to media after chairing a meeting of all Punjab chambers of commerce and trade associations at Chief Minister’s Secretariat here on Friday evening. He said if the federal government initiated alternate energy projects, the country could easily produce around 4,000 MW of electricity during the last three and half years. But, unfortunately, to serve its own interests federal government decided to go for rental power projects, which could not produce any results, he maintained. He said that energy crisis had become a major challenge for trade and industry in the province. He pointed out that a large number of industrial workers had been unemployed due to gas curtailment, while export industries were missing their export orders.
