PTI accepts federal govt’s offer to control PESCO

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday accepted the federal government’s offer to take control of Peshawar Electric Supply Corporation (PESCO).
Addressing a press conference, PTI leader Asad Umar said that his party was ready to run more public sector organisations if the federal government was unable to handle them.
“Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister (CM) Pervez Khattak will soon write a letter to the federal government in this regard,” he informed.
Umar said that the federal government has to give Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Rs 108 billion in the form of royalty.
He stated that three provinces are generating electricity more than their demand, but in Punjab power generation is less than demand.
The PTI Chairman Imran Khan had, in the rally against inflation in Lahore on December 22, had offered to control PESCO if the PML-N-led federal government was finding it hard to do so, which the federal Minister of Water and Power Khawaja Asif had accepted the following day in his statement while talking to the media.