Shehbaz says country facing load shedding due to the gross mismanagement & incompetence of previous govt.

ISLAMABAD -- Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has said that the country is facing load shedding due to the gross mismanagement and incompetence of previous government, expressing the commitment to address the situation at the earliest.

Speaking in the National Assembly on Saturday, the Prime Minister said he has held several meetings with the Ministries of Petroleum, Power and the Finance in the last few days and the situation is that the country has the capacity to generate thirty five thousand megawatt of electricity. This is sufficient to meet our power requirements. He however regretted that the power plants are closed due to shortage of gas. He pointed out that the previous government did not purchase the gas when it was available at the rate of three to four dollars per unit. He said today the gas price has reached thirty to thirty five dollars per unit.

The Prime Minister recalled that the last government of PML-N had signed a gas import agreement with Qatar at a discounted rate, on which the previous government of PTI used to raise fingers.

Shehbaz Sharif said that he visited the Rawal Chowk flyover project this morning which had to be...

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