It is ironic that the power outage occurred just a few days before the incumbent government's tenure ends
BAHAWALPUR: The power outage in almost all of Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and some parts of Sindh and Balochistan is being cited as the “worst power outage”. It occurred owing to a technical fault that left almost half of the country without electricity for almost eight hours on Wednesday.
What is perhaps ironic about the power outage is that it occurred just a few days before the incumbent PML-N government’s completion of its five-year tenure. A tenure that majorly rode on the PML-N making tall claims about turning around the energy crisis in the country. A party whose post-elections manifesto of 2013 included making Pakistan a country with no to bare minimum load-shedding.
Over and over again, not just the Big Brother Nawaz Sharif made promises and set unrealistic deadlines to end Pakistan’s energy crisis, but the not-so-young younger brother Shehbaz Sharif too also made putting an end to load-shedding the focal point of his speeches. But the ground realities are far from what the Sharifs promised.
It is indeed a shame that time and again citizens are fooled into casting votes for politicians who do nothing more than providing lip service. Come general elections, it is time that citizens proved that they no longer could be fooled and used their power of vote wisely.
Zahoor Malik
Published in The Express Tribune, May 18th, 2018.
Like Opinion & Editorial on Facebook, follow @ETOpEd on Twitter to receive all updates on all our daily pieces.
