KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari claimed on Wednesday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had scrapped agreements for 25,000MW power production facilities signed and approved by former PM Benazir Bhutto.
He was speaking at the inauguration of a 100MW gas-fired power project in Nooriabad.
The provincial government has inked an agreement with the K-Electric to sell electricity from Nooriabad to the company to help overcome the power crisis in Karachi. Bilawal said the PPP had never played politics on national development. “My mother [Benazir Bhutto] had signed and approved pacts for 25,000MW power projects but Mian Sahib [Nawaz] scrapped them and plunged the country into darkness,” he added.
“He (the prime minister) will be ousted from his post after the joint investigation team for the Panama Papers case finishes its probe and if he somehow escapes that, the masses will oust him.”
The PPP chief said conspiracies were hatched when the Sindh government had formed its own power department and transmission and dispatch company. “But with the grace of God, both the power department and the transmission and dispatch company have successfully set up a power plant and installed a transmission line,” he added. Separately, Bilawal condemned suicide attack in Kabul’s diplomatic enclave.
In a press statement, he said, “Human fraternity has to get united to eliminate terrorism from the earth while neighbours have also to fulfill their responsibilities with open heart for peace in the region.” Bilawal expressed sympathy and solidarity with families of the Kabul blast victims and prayed for early recovery of those injured. Meanwhile, Bilawal appointed office bearers of Multan, Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan divisions and districts.
