A textile mill and CNG station owned by Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Mian Manzoor Wattoo and his daughter MPA Robina Shaheen Wattoo are illegally consuming gas on load management days.
According to sources, a team of Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) Sahiwal region found during checking that Resham Textile Mill and Tameere Watan CNG Station, owned by the minister and his daughter, were using gas during days of load management in sheer violation of law.
Furthermore, the CNG station has been using gas without submitting bank security. The textile mill and CNG station also have arrears worth millions of rupees.
The gas supply to the textile mill and CNG station was stopped following the revelation of theft but no further action has been taken against the culprits.
Meanwhile, work on providing 11,000 new gas connections is underway in Wattoo’s constituency despite a ban on new gas schemes.
Manzoor Wattoo ‘also’ stealing gas
