Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday reiterated that the PML-N government would end the energy crisis and long hours of electricity load shedding in the country.
Talking to media personnel after meeting Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) chief Pir Pagara in Karachi, the former and future designate Punjab chief minister said the previous government had done nothing to overcome the energy crisis in the country.
He said after coming into power, his party would immediately take all possible steps to produce electricity, adding that Thar coal projects would be activated.
Sharif said PML-N’s federal government would facilitate all provinces to maintain law and order, especially in Karachi and Balochistan.
He said the federal government would coordinate with the Sindh government to restore peace in Karachi which he said was the financial engine of the country.
“PML-N will help local authorities end extortion, target killing, kidnapping and terrorism from Karachi and the rest of the province,” he added.
Sharif vowed to establish a Lahore-like Metro Bus System in Karachi.
“As we promised to the people of this city, PML-N will immediately work on this mass transit system and I offered my expertise and experience to build the Metro Bus System in Karachi,” Sharif said.
He said President Zardari had used his administrative powers in Sindh to interfere in poll results, adding that the real mandate of Sindhi people had been stolen.
Sharif said his party did not believe in political victimisation but people who were involved in massive corruption would be brought to justice.
He said an alliance with PML-F would be in the interest of the people of Sindh and said he had invited Pir Pagara to Raiwind and Islamabad to attend Nawaz Sharif’s oath taking ceremony.
The PML-F chief, on the occasion, urged unification of all factions of Muslim League.
He said all factions of Pakistan Muslim League should be gathered under a single forum for the betterment of the country.
Pagara said he had supported Nawaz Sharif in the past and vowed to support him in the future as well.
It is quite unfair to level baseless allegation and relying on conspiracy theories without understanding the background facts:
1.Was it the PMLN that prompted (General Musharraf’s handpicked stooge) Shaukat Aziz to ban power projects in the public sector in early 2000s?
2.Was it the PMLN that appointed General Saeed Zaffar (Corp Commander during the 1999 coup d’état) as Chairman NEPRA?
3.Was the then Chairman NEPRA an electrical Engineer or a war veteran?
4.Was it the PMLN that stopped the dictator from passing on the fuel prices to the end consumers when oil prices jumped to US$ 147 a barrel in 2007?
5.Was it the PMLN that prevented the dictator from hedging the oil prices when they dipped to US$ 44 a barrel in 2007-08?
6.Was it the PMLN that introduced “Rental Power Policy” in July 2006 to invite short-term power projects on rental basis.
7.Was it the PMLN that opened the Floodgate of Corruption, massively misused by the cronies of Dictator Musharraf and then by his NRO-beneficiary Raja Rental?
8.Was it the PMLN that received huge kickbacks in the rental power projects (Reshma, Naudero, Karkey etc) binding the Government to make heavy capacity payments (as high as Rs 51 per unit) despite the fact that most of these units were not producing electricity at all!
9.Wasn’t it the PMLN’s Khawaja Muhammad Asif who approached the Supreme Court http://www.supremecourt.gov.pk/web/user_files/Fil…
against Fraud in payments of RPPs, when the self-proclaimed Imran Khan was totally missing from the scene?
10. Wasn’t it the impact of massive irregularities/misgovernance/fraud/ corruption that the then PPP government started purchasing electricity at exorbitant rate (as high as Rs 51. per unit) and ultimately led to swelling of Circular Debt?
11. Don’t the people understand that due to Circular Debt PSO has no money to purchase/import fuel; oil refineries have no money to run their refining production; gencos (power generation companies) are unable to purchase electricity and discos (distribution companies) are unable to procure electricity?
12. Didn’t the incumbent caretaker government raise electricity tariff by (at least) Rs 5.5 per unit to partially resolve the Circular Debt?
13. Hasn’t this tariff increase construed by everyone as a “mini budget” and the Supreme Court had to shot it down because the caretaker government has no mandate to take long term decisions?
14.Was it the PMLN that has swollen the “Circular Debt” to over Rs 500 Billion during the past 7 years?
The problem is understood by a majority of the educated people and they are certain that PML-N will steer the Country out of this crisis InshaAllah!
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