Letter written to caretaker PM: Imran seeks information about power crisis, circular debt

Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan Friday said he has written a letter to the caretaker prime minister, urging him to take nation into confidence and inform about acute power crisis and status of Rs 500 billion circular debt left by the PML-N government.
In a tweet, he said that as the country confronts spiraling power and water crises alongside a heat wave, he has written a letter to the caretaker Prime Minister former Justice Nasirul Mulk to let the nation know about the exact position of electricity left by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government.
"The long-suffering people have a right to know whether the promises and claims made by the PML-N government of having ended load-shedding were true or nothing but a pack of lies. The people would also like to know the veracity of Sharif's statement that any power failures now would be caretaker government's fault," he tweeted.
He said he had pointed out to interim prime minister in his letter that it is his government's responsibility to take nation into confidence and inform them who is responsible for this sorry state of affairs in the power sector. "And is there any semblance of good governance that the PML-N government boasted about ad nauseam," he added.
Former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had earlier claimed that PML-N government had added 10,000 megawatts (MWs) of electricity to the national grid.
About the energy projects initiated by the PML-N-led government, Abbasi had claimed that 35 percent surplus electricity - 6,000MWs - had been produced in 2018.
Abbasi noted that the country had the capacity to produce 28,400MW electricity, adding the big dams could only be built if there exists a national consensus on these mega projects.