Asif Shaikh
Federal Minister for Energy Omar Ayub Khan has said the Sindh government, itself, was responsible for the gas shortage. .”. Had it given the right of way for gas pipeline timely, the gas pressure problems would not have been faced.”The minister paid a visit to the residence of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice President and parliamentary party leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh on Friday to attend a reception in his honour. Special assistant of Prime Minister on Petroleum Nadeem Baber also accompanied him. PTI MPAs and leaders Dr Saeed Afridi, Bilal Ghafar, Abbas Jaffri, Kareem Bux Gabol, Shehzad Farooqui, Rabistan Khan, Shahnawaz Jadon, Adeel Ahmed, Sanjay Gangwani, Mehmood Molvi, Ashraf Qureshi, Naeem Adil Sheikh, Hunaid Lakhani, Arshad Javed and others were also present.Omar Ayub said by the year 2025, 80,000 megawatt electricity would be added to the system, adding the Sindh government did not give right of way for gas pipeline which resulted in gas shortage.He said it was totally wrong that the gas share of Sindh is being given to other provinces. He said in Sindh 2,000 mmcf gas is produced and of this the PPP government during its tenure had given 500 mmcf gas to Sui Northern. He said from this gas 250 mmcf gas is taken back and given to power plants. He said during last 10 years in the governments of PPP and PML-N new gas wells were not dug up, however, “we have started the process of digging up wells to discover gas.He said during the governments of PPP and PML-N there was more load shedding. On the occasion, Haleem Adil Sheikh said the Sindh govt was only busy in blame game. He said our energy ministry is working in an efficient manner.
