President Asif Ali Zardari has admitted as reported in a section of national English press that PPP govt was unable to overcome the prevailing power crisis that was a huge challenge. In the background of abject failure of PPP to solve the power problem how does it expect to face the voters for a better performance?
The PPP guru could not foresee that IPP’s and RPP’s was not the proper route to achieve assured power supplies. The proper route was of hydel energy from a mega hydroelectric dam like Kalabagh dam which is the only shining star in the blanketing darkness engulfing the country along with water shortage. The escalating oil prices ought to have been foreseen to produce unaffordable power to masses. The thermal route instead of God-given hydel route was the bane of PPP. The real challenge was to achieve a consensus on Kalabagh dam to which no serious effort was made by the PPP supremo and he thus missed the golden chance to prove his capability that would have earned him a second term of presidency.
DR MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTI
Lahore
