The MQM leader, Mustafa Kamal, said here on Saturday that they consider Nawaz Sharif the leader of entire Pakistan, but his yesterday’s media talk has alienated us.
“We are now forced to think, we won’t get relief being not the part of Punjab,” he said while talking to media here.
“The MQM will not accept it. If there is no package in Sindh and you tell us to talk with the provincial government,” Kamal said. “We are your partners and not the Sindh government’s,” he retorted.
“We want unanimous power tariffs in the entire country, there will be no compromise over it, the relief must be for whole Pakistan,” MQM leader emphasized.
“Instead of blocking the arteries, we presented the government a solution to resolve the issue of inflated electricity bills,” the MQM-P leader said addressing a press conference.
He claimed Pakistan possessed electricity beyond its requirement as it had the ability to generate more than 45,000 megawatts electricity. However, he said, the country’s transmission lines had the capacity of merely 22-25,000 megawatts.
Summing up his suggestion for providing people relief, Kamal said the government should sit down and talk with the 30% local and 50% public independent power producers in this regard, keeping aside the 20% foreign IPPs initially, as they had international agreements.
“These IPPs have already made billions of rupees (in terms of charges for their services),” he said.
He proposed privatisation of electricity distribution companies and giving licence to more companies in a region too.
