Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said steering the country out of the darkness is his party’s top priority.
“Pulling the country out of darkness features atop the manifesto of PML-N and this is not merely an election pledge,” he said. While addressing party workers in Lahore on Saturday, Sharif said, “We have experts in all walks of life, including economic experts and planners to run the ministry of water and electricity in an efficient manner.” We also have the brains capable of leading the country out of darkness and putting it on the road to development within three years, claimed the PML-N chieftain.
Talking on the outgoing Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government, Nawaz claimed, “We are not empty handed like the PPP whose ministers did nothing except plundering the national exchequer.”
Sharif added that if voted to power, the masses would be provided gas and electricity on reasonable tariffs without load shedding.
PML-N understands very well that overcoming the 6,000 MW power deficit will not be a difficult job and the crisis can be resolved by introducing reforms in NEPRA, Sharif claimed.
After coming into power, PML-N would introduce hydropower, solar power and biomass power projects and a net metering system for small consumers would be introduced also, he said. Supply of gas to power generation houses will be ensured on a regular basis in order to reduce the cost of production of electricity, Sharif added.
He further said special concession would be given to poor consumers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). Mutual cooperation will be forged between the federal and provincial governments so that no province suffers the way Punjab did under the PPP-led government, Sharif stated.