ISLAMABAD:
Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah lashed out at the federal government on Wednesday, blaming them for power outages in the country as the death toll kept increasing and reached almost 830 in four days.
In an emotional speech centred on the overwhelming loss of life in Karachi, Shah took the floow after Minister for Water and Power Khwaja Asif had furnished the house with details of power supply and shortages.
“For God’s sake! The government should stop talking about calculations and talk about saving lives,” Shah thundered. “Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had said there won’t be any load-shedding in Ramazan.”
Shah’s emotions ran high as he shared a death toll of 1,200 from across Sindh. “This is not a time for politics. I am in pain today. People are dying and they don’t have water to wash their corpses. And you are blaming the Sindh government?”
He added that the centre should take over K-Electric and that Qaim Ali Shah’s government would support the move.
“Thousands are dying in Karachi. This is not a K-Electric problem — this is a Pakistan problem.”
Shah’s speech was directed at Khawaja Asif, who had taken his seat after saying in an earlier speech that the power crisis in Sindh is not the responsibility of the federal government.
