(24 News) United National Movement (MQM) Pakistan leader Mustafa Kamal has said that if the issue of electricity is not taken seriously, Pakistan will become bankrupt.
While giving a press conference in Karachi, Mustafa Kamal said that there is more electricity in Pakistan, instead of causing pain to the people by blocking the road, we told the government to solve the problem. Can talk to Azam.
He said that this year 1700 billion rupees were kept only to meet the losses, Pakistan currently has the capacity to generate 45 thousand megawatts of electricity.
Mustafa Kamal says that the capacity of our transmission lines is only 22 to 25 thousand megawatts, the industrialists say that they give electricity for 6 to 9 cents, it is currently 16 cents, leave aside 20 percent of foreign IPPs. There are international agreements.
The MQM leader said that sit down the 52% government and 30% local IPPs, these IPPs have already earned billions of rupees, 20% IPPs cannot violate the agreements.
He says that the problems that arose after the budget came, we continuously discussed the problems of the power sector, our response was that due to the problems of the power sector, Pakistan may suffer a big economic loss, our defense budget 22 Hundred billion rupees and IPPs have to give more money than the defense budget.
Mustafa Kamal said that in this whole process, we told the solution of the problems instead of scoring points, the Prime Minister assured us that we will implement your requests, in the meeting of two and a half hours we told him in this regard. After that Atta Tarar held a press conference on IPPs only, in this press conference he praised the efforts of MQM.
2024-08-18 04:57:55