Traders of Southern Punjab on Tuesday rejected decisions taken in the second National Energy Conference and threatened to launch civil disobedience movement if the proposed steps were imposed. The decisions are political, unilateral and contrary to the ground realities while stakeholders were not taken into confidence, said Khawaja Muhammad Shafiq Central chairman of National Traders Alliance.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, he said that we will not accept the outcome of the controversial conference, an economic murder of the reeling trading community. Khalid Mehmood Qureshi President of Small traders Chamber, Khawaja Muhammad Suleman Siddiqui, Vice Chairman of Markazi Anjuman Tajiran and others were also present on the occasion.
Khawaja Shafiq said that it needs more that flowery speech, tall claims, poetry and infamous decisions to resolve energy crisis which has emerged as biggest threat to the country. He said that how can traders close shops at 8pm when people come out of homes for shopping after dusk.
He said that resolution of crisis lies in building reservoirs and utilising Thar coal. However, it is amazing that rulers preferred rental power projects to drain national exchequer. A doctor has inflicted more damage to economy than so called war on terror and insurgency, he noted.
Other who spoke on the occasion said that Supreme Court has recovered Rs 8 billion of money looted by rulers in the name of rental power, which is in fact tip-off the iceberg. There is no petroleum policy in country; concerned ministry is only interested in plunder and disheartening investors. There is no exploration, no block has been auctioned in the last four years and no efforts have been initiated to attract investors, they said. The speakers said that energy conference is nothing but a jugglery of words and an attempt to throw sand in the eyes of dejected masses.
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