LAHORE: Mian Shahbaz Sharif, President of PML-N on Monday criticised the PTI government saying it is doing everything that it accused the PML-N government before the 2018 election. Addressing a press conference in Lahore today along with other PML-N leaders Shahbaz Sharif lauded the previous government of his party for introducing power projects in the country.
When in power, the PML-N took measures to completely eliminate the problem of electricity load-shedding. However, the PTI government has brought this curse upon people once again, he said.
Shahbaz said that the PTI resorted to abuses, calling names, and levelling corruption allegations against the PML-N government but it could not prove anything.
PPP President said Under the PTI government’s rule, Balochistan is facing 10 hours of electricity load-shedding every day. He said the PTI government left no stone unturned in terms of “looting the people of Pakistan.”
Shahbaz alleged that the incumbent government could not finalise a gas agreement despite its tall claims because it had been providing gas to its favourites.
“Despite hydel power plants being less costly, the government could not manage to build a single dam in the country,” he said. “At present, it [the government] is benefitting from capacity payments worth billions of rupees.”
The PML-N leader said that the PTI-led government failed to come up with long-term power projects, and the short-term ones it introduced turned out to be excessively costly.
He said the people of Pakistan are facing extreme power crisis and electricity load-shedding because of the incompetent policies of the PTI-led government.
