PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Ameer Mushtaq Ahmad Khan has asked the government to ensure the 13.5% allocated electricity quota to counter load-shedding in the province.
“K-P’s electricity quota is 2,700 megawatts, but it is provided 1,700MW,” Ahmad said while speaking to journalists at Markaz-e-Islami on Sunday. He added K-P is producing three times more electricity than its requirements, but even then the province was subjected to massive load-shedding.
He said according to the Constitution, the province had first rights over its resources. Therefore, K-P should be provided the allocated quota to prevent load-shedding. He also criticised the government for carrying out load-shedding during Iftar and Sehr. He said people had been protesting against power outages, but authorities turned a blind eye to these concerns.
“The federal government has to stop its discriminatory treatment,” the JI ameer stressed.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 13th, 2016.
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