Karachi :
According to the details, the Sindh High Court has suspended the notification to stop the supply of gas to the non-export industry. Gas supply suspension notification suspended. It has been informed that notices have been issued by the Sindh High Court to the Attorney General and others in which a reply has been sought from them while a reply has also been sought from the Federal Government and other concerned agencies till January 11.
It may be recalled that Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) had decided to cut off gas supply to non-export industries in Sindh and Balochistan from December 11 till further orders to ensure better supply of gas to domestic consumers. On the other hand, Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry said in his statement on Twitter that we had said that we would do our best to supply gas to the domestic consumers, we are moving towards rotation policy, this is the first year that fertilizer companies Supplying is being done, industries are being told to supply gas once a week, gas reserves have been reduced by 25% since the present government came.
We have gas in our reserves at Rs. 300 per MMB to U. While imported gas is expensive which can cost up to Rs. 2,500. There are also places where gas is coming round the clock. He said that domestic connections are increasing year by year. Hamad Azhar said that there is shortage of LNG in the whole world, no cargo has been sent to Europe from Qatar, LNG is being supplied to Pakistan by Qatar.
On the other hand, PML-N President and Leader of the Opposition Shahbaz Sharif while expressing concern over the severe gas crisis in the country said that the government’s promise to supply gas to domestic consumers three times in winter also turned out to be false. Responding to the gas shortage, he said that the government’s promise to supply gas to households in the morning, afternoon and evening in winter also turned out to be false.
Due to Imran Niazi’s incompetence and corruption, gas is missing from all over Pakistan today. He said that there was not enough gas in the houses so that women could cook at home. The government claimed that it was cutting off gas supplies to local industries for the sake of export industry. Due to Imran Niazi’s incompetence and corruption, gas is missing from all over Pakistan today. There is not even enough gas in the houses for women to cook at home.
Shahbaz Sharif said that the government was claiming that gas supply to local industry is being stopped for the sake of export industry. Is gas supply to local export industry also cut off? Unemployment will increase if industries do not get gas. Where will taxes be collected? If the export industry does not get gas then where will the export dollars come from? Former members of the self-governing team have admitted that the Imran Niazi government has bankrupted the economy.
He said that the gas crisis was created by the corruption and incompetence of the PTI government. Under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif, the PML-N had installed complete gas infrastructure. The needs could have been met better, the real problem is not the gas crisis, the corruption and incompetence of the present government which creates the crisis itself.
