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December 19, 2020
ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister Nadeem Babar said on Friday Pakistan was paying $527,000 (Rs84.3m) per day because of ill-conceived agreements of the previous government.
Speaking in a private channel programme, he said that the terminal was being paid in full for 10 months, but no gas was received.
He claimed that it had become hard to supply cheap gas to domestic users due to the previous government’s agreements. Now they have to pay at least Rs1400 per month, instead of Rs250-300, he added.
While conceding that the country indeed needs LNG and that the PML-N government did the right thing by shifting power plants from diesel to LNG, Nadeem said during the PML-N era, LNG was declared as petrol which was a wrong step. These power plants only ran on LNG for two-and-a-half years, not seven, he added.