Former water and power minister Liaqat Jatoi on Sunday said that two rental power plants were brought without his approval during his tenure. Speaking at his residence, Jatoi said that false and baseless allegations of misdeeds in form of rental power plants had been leveled against him. “I have nothing to do with two rental plants brought to the country during my term as water and power minister. Although I was the minister, my approval was not taken. All was done through the Presidency,” he said There was no power crisis during his term and he had approved 12 energy projects and out of those four became operational, the former minister said. If the present government had not come into power, all these projects would have become operational, he said. Jatoi said that he was ready to face punishment if it was established in the Supreme Court that he had made a single rupee in any of these projects.
