PTI issues white paper on govt performance

LAHORE
Punjab PTI organiser Ch Muhammad Sarwar Tuesday issued a white paper on the PML-N government’s performance during the past one month stating that excesses, rape cases, murders, dacoities, thefts, injustices and loadshedding have become the destiny of people living in Punjab.
In the white paper, Sarwar said the rulers were spending some Rs 36 crore on their personal security and had left people unprotected.
He said more than 75 people had committed suicides just because of price hike and joblessness. Ch Sarwar said that over 200 rape and sodomy cases were reported against women, children and boys in Punjab during the past month alone.
He said valuables and cash worth 13 crores and 50 lakh rupees were looted and stolen in and around Lahore. He said the Auditor General of Pakistan confirmed corruption by declaring that Rs330 billion payment had been made to the private power companies as illegal and unconstitutional.
He said the petroleum ministry has failed to execute the gas pipeline project worth Rs 5.16 billion due to which gas loadshedding had begun in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He said the common man’s household expenses have risen by 10 percent due to increase in petroleum prices. He said there was continuous loadshedding for 6-10 hours despite the change in weather and people have now started to protest on roads.
He said some 2,000 vehicles were stolen or snatched in and around Lahore in the last one month. He said more than 28 women had committed suicide as they could not get justice in rape cases. He said police were torturing those who seek justice.
He said that the PML-N government’s good governance has been exposed. He said that the government is unable to resolve loadshedding problem as well as price hike and joblessness. He said that the vegetables and fruit prices have gone up and people are not able to purchase these things to meet their basic needs. He said that the police tortured some 24 people to

death, while two policemen committed suicide against the uncalled for attitude of their seniors.
Ch Sarwar said that the government has also failed to provide secure environment during the first and second phase of local government elections that resulted in the killing of 18 workers of the PTI, PML-Q and Jamaat-e-Islami. He said that PML-N also harasses its opponents through the police. He said that the government spent crores of rupees on dengue advertisement campaign and still some 2,100 people had been infected by dengue and eight patients died. He said that the Punjab government cannot hold accountable those, whose negligence led to the Sunder Industrial Estate factory collapse and deaths.
Sarwar said that Mustafa Kanju also got released on bail in the Zain murder case that spoke volumes against the failure of prosecution system in Punjab. He said that crime rate was increasing by the day in the province.
The rulers making tall claims of good governance are trying to dupe this nation.
“If one looks at the price hike in vegetables one comes to know that the price of garlic has increased by 8 rupees per kg within a month now being sold at 149 rupees per kg, onion increased 5 rupees per kg now being sold at 53 per kg, capsicum increased by 15 rupees per kg, now sold at 114 per kg, carrot increased by 3 rupees per kg, now sold at 38 per kg, banana increased by 9 rupees per dozen now being sold at 51 rupees per dozen and the price of 1 dozen eggs increased by 6 rupees now being sold at 98 rupees per dozen” said Ch Sarwar.
The price of 100 kg sugar bag rose up to 400 rupees in ex-mills now being sold at 5900 rupees whereas In Akbar Market the bag of sugar is being sold at 6000 rupees and in open market the sugar has risen unto 4 rupees per kg and not being sold at 67 rupees per kg for which poor bearing heavy burden of inflation. LPG marketing companies increased the price of 1kg LPG by 5 rupees whereas the prices of domestic LPG cylinder and commercial cylinder increased by 60 rupees and 240 rupees respectively without prior notification by Ogra.
After hike in LPG prices in Karachi increased by 95 rupees per kg domestic cylinder being sold at 1090 rupees, Sarwar said.