ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Wednesday said that the recent report by Auditor General Pakistan (AGP) of alleged corruption and embezzlement was indicative of the “incompetence” of the PTI government.
Speaking at a news conference here, PML-N secretary-information Marriyum Aurangzeb alleged that the “selected” government has destroyed every department and every sector of the country.
“In the sugar and flour alone, this government has robbed the people’s Rs 1000 billion already. The government robbed Pakistan’s Rs 3000 billion from the power sector which has now increased to Rs 7000 billion. The losses due to Peshawar BRT have amounted to Rs 150 billion,” she further alleged.
She maintained that the AGP also caught embezzlement of Rs 150 billion, in the “Billion Tree Tsunami”, adding that the saplings worth Rs 23 per piece were bought for Rs 55 per piece and only 23 percent of the claimed saplings were sowed.
She said the people of Pakistan were being electrocuted every week by raising electricity tariffs. “This will now be followed by another major increase in electricity tariffs coming month on the direction of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),” she said.
She further maintained that during PML-N tenure, the most economical electricity was produced at Rs 12 per unit, ‘but today that electricity costs Rs 32 per unit under PTI’.
“The “incompetent” government has more than doubled the circular debt of electricity to Rs 2400 billion from Rs 1100 billion where PML-N left it. The hike in electricity and gas tariffs has shut down businesses and rendered mass unemployment,” she added.
Instead of producing electricity from gas, she added that the PTI gave special permission to import furnace oil and produce electricity from furnace oil putting further burden over the masses.
“This decision to import furnace oil by Prime Minister was in clear violation of power sector merit list,” she alleged.
She maintained that Nawaz Sharif during his tenure added 14000 megawatts to the national grid saving hundreds and billions of public money.
”These “selected” are not only putting up their name plaques on Nawaz’s projects but are making money from them too. In the tenure of these “selected” electricity is extremely expensive yet the recovery is still less,” she further maintained.
She said that the cases under which PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif was “wrongfully” arrested were being closed. “Despite these cases being shelved, Shehbaz is still behind bars just to give PTI a free hand to continue looting the country,” she further alleged.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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