PPP criticises govt over power, gas outages

ISLAMABAD: PPP Parliamentary leader in the Senate Sherry Rehman has expressed her concerns over the power and gas crisis in the country. She said power load-shedding had exceeded 5000MW amid extreme humid conditions due to mismanagement and incompetence of the PTI government.

“Those who stand on a container and used to say that previous governments have installed the power plants more than needed, and now load-shedding in the country has returned only due to their mismanagement and incompetence,” she said in a tweet.

Sherry said currently all power plants were generating less electricity than their capacity. “Who was responsible for it and the government should tell who was responsible for 16 hours of unannounced load-shedding, as they could not absolve themselves only through an inquiry report,” she said.

“Tabahi Sarkar forgot to order LNG and furnace oil at accessible rates, now blaming high prices and tenders,” she added. She said many power plants had shut down, incurring losses worth billions. “They are blaming each other and the mafia has been sitting in the power sector like other sectors,” she added.

In the meanwhile, PPP Parliamentarians Central Information Secretary Shazia Atta Marri said that non-supply of gas to industries in the country was the height of incompetence of the PTI-led government and added that emerging gas crisis during summer season was the result of bad economic policies of incompetent Prime Minster Imran Khan. “People are also facing difficulties due to severe load-shedding in the country on the other side,” she said.

Shazia said scrapping Pak-Iran gas pipeline project was an enmity with the country's people. Former president Asif Ali Zardari introduced great development projects like economic corridor project of Gwadar and Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline during his government.