Pushing PML-N to wall no service to nation: Shehbaz Opp leader says PML-N being targeted for providing cheap transport and free medicines to masses
July 13, 2021
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif on Monday came down hard on the government due to ongoing energy crisis.
Addressing a press conference at PML-N Secretariat in Model Town Lahore, the opposition leader said that there was load shedding of 20 hours before Nawaz Sharif took the reins of the country in 2013 but the PML-N government successfully gave a load shedding-free Pakistan in 2018.
Accompanied by former Finance Minister Miftah Ismail, party’s deputy secretary general Attaullah Tarar and Punjab’s Information Secretary Azma Bukhari, the opposition leader said pushing the PML-N to the wall is no service to the nation. “We are being targeted for giving cheap transport, free medicines, laptops and health cards to the people,” said the
Economic slump, swelling capacity charges forced govt to hike power tariff
Top Story
By Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: The economic slowdown of the last two years, eruption of Covid-19 pandemic and inability of government to undertake tariff reforms forced the government to hike electricity tariff by Rs 1.95 per unit, top official sources confirmed to The News here on Friday.
The increased power supply and the inability to reform the tariff left the government with no option but to hike the tariff. However, the blame for not undertaking reforms lies squarely with the PTI government. Attacking the PML-N regime, SAPM Dr Shahbaz Gill said the previous government needlessly contracted 22,000MW which was way beyond the country’s requirement in order to mint money but left the consumers in great misery. Gill said if Pakistan’s GDP was increasing annually by 7 per cent even then only 10,000 MW was needed.