The Punjab government shifted its camp office to the Minar-e-Pakistan on Friday to express solidarity with public against the chronic power outages. Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif addressed the media from his newly crafted camp office setup in protest against unannounced and unscheduled load shedding in the province,
The CM said President Asif Ali Zardari and convicted Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani will have to be made accountable for debts amounting to Rs 400 billion. He stated that he will go to every village and city of the country to rid the people of the power outages as well as ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’, who, he said, had pushed Pakistan into darkness. Sharif said he could not relax until as the people had been deprived of their sleep due to the unending electricity outages.
He announced that he has built his office at the ‘Minar-e-Pakistan’ and that the next cabinet session will be held here. Sharif stated if the circular debt was countered, the power crisis would end.
He stated that the government had ruined the economy and industry in Pakistan. Water is a scarce resource for the general masses and that water was not even available for executing ‘Wuzu’ before offering prayers in mosques.
He declared that they will bring back the money compromised under the NRO in Swiss banks. Sharif added that they will return the 700 megawatt electricity which falls under the share of Punjab to allow the province to help settle the issue of the power crisis.
He said the decisions taken during the energy conference had been violated, as the PM had promised electricity outages on an equal basis throughout the country, but that poor governance on the part of the rulers was compounding the power crisis.
He said the federal government was being unjust with Punjab, adding that if corruption ended and the money looted from Pakistan was brought back to the country, the load shedding crisis could be ended.
Disregarding security protocol, Chief Minister Shahbaz reached the camp office and presided over a meeting of the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA).
WASA officials briefed the CM at the camp, regarding the shortage of water. The officials told the CM that they got generators on rent for two to three hours to overcome the water shortage issue but the generators will be needed for more time daily due to the prolonged load shedding. The CM issued directions to WASA to get generators for 24 hours to solve the problem.
The meeting was attended by Lahore Commissioner, DCO, WASA MD and members of the Punjab Assembly.
No generator or UPS was installed at the camp office, while all the participants, including the chief minister, were seen wearing black ribbons.
How many megawatts has Shahbaz Sharif added to national grid during last four years? How many megawatts did Nawaz Sharif add to national grid during his manipulated two-thirds mandate term called his second term?
He cannot add megawatts as its is the job of federal government. They have failed miserably.
Seriously i find this funny. is it a solution proposed by provincial Chief after 4 years? after 18th amendment who stopped them to add megawatts to the grid? both Federal and all provincial states failed in resolving the crisis.
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." by Abraham Lincoln
hmmm if you people know machinery for two power plants is waiting at karachi port from a year and the karachi port authority is not clearing that machinery this is what stopping punjab gov from adding mega watts to national grid.
What r those plants? They r just a few hundred megawatts, How can fed govt stop? Sharifs will go to SupremeCourt and get them back from port authorities. This news is totally false and fabricated by Sharis. SC got money back from two rental power contractors. Why cant it bring back power plants from Karachi port
Similarly, Federal govt is not providing support letter that provides sovereign guarantees for international projects. This has pushed many companies to run away from projects.
I m at a loss to understand why Fed govt is not providing support letter. This news is illogical. Does the federal rulers dont want to rule next term. If they dont, then why r they working so hard with the allies to get next term.
Topi Drama and nothing else. Another proof he's a politician not a leader with vision. Now when five years of him in power are about to complete and time is approaching fast for him to present himself in people's courts he's started vainly to beat about the bush to some how deflect general public attention, who very closely have been watching his "good governance".
Inept Shabaz Sharif has wasted half of decade of people of Punjab. Punjab could have had thrived economically financially had some one else more competent been there in his place.
The province could have had more electricity than it needed had he made it a priority and worked for it. He did not. He had no such agenda at all. From day one his priority had been to some how have had federal govt. failed. Most of the financial resources he wasted on conspiring against PPP govt. rather utilizing these scarce ones to utilize for building up electricity generating units in the province.
SHAHID HUSSEIN QABOOLPURIA,
LAHORE, PAKISTAN
Sharifs have generators for the street lights around their house. They do not realize the pain that people are going through.
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