It has been announced by Govt. that work has started on getting power from India at the rate of Rs21 per unit. It is mortifying to note that our leaders have no sense in buying power at exceedingly high rate from India at Rs. 21/- per unit instead of generating its own hydel power from KBD at paisas 50 per unit. It is said that God does not beat with “lathis” recalcitrant sinners but makes them mad or senseless so that they can’t distinguish between right and wrong. As such our shoes are being used to beat us on our heads by India so that it can justify that Pakistan is unable to generate its own hydel power in the past 40 years by failure to build a single hydero-electric dam; therefore India is justified to build scores of dams on our western rivers. If this was to be the logic of creation of Pakistan then fie is on our leaders who cannot think beyond their nose. The right thinking people are stunned to learn about the highly unfavourable deal of buying power from India and ignoring our own hydel potential of 44000 MW power.
DR M YAQOOB BHATTI
Lahore