PPP leader accuses PML-N of revenge load-shedding

Aajiz Dhamrah requests CJP to take notice of effluent discharge in Indus River by Punjab

HYDERABAD: Up to 18 hours of power suspension is being meted out to the people of Sindh because they did not vote for the Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) in the 2013 elections.

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sindh Information Secretary Aajiz Dhamrah said this while addressing a press conference in Hyderabad on Sunday. Dhamrah, who recently retired as a senator, alleged that the PML-N's federal ministers had admitted that load-shedding was imposed on Sindh on the pretext of a punishment.

The PPP leader asked Punjab Chief Minister and PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif, who visited Karachi on Sunday, to answer the people of Sindh why they had to endure long hours of power suspension whenever his party formed the government at the Centre. People are first punished through excessive bills and later the whole area is collectively punished through load-shedding, Dhamrah said.



He claimed that Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah had, on multiple occasions, registered protests with the federal government against load-shedding but to no avail.

Dhamrah also appealed to the chief justice of Pakistan and apex court-mandated judicial commission on water and sanitation to take notice of the discharge of poisonous effluent by Punjab in the Indus River.