ANP Senator quits panel over gas supply denial

Gas resource-rich area, Thall tehsil, does not get gas, which has caused the senator to tender his resignation.

Our Correspondent October 25, 2013

ANP Senator Abdul Nabi Bangash. PHOTO: FILE

ISLAMABAD: Awami National Party (ANP) Senator Abdul Nabi Bangash on Thursday tendered his resignation from the membership of Senate Standing Committee on Petroleum, protesting against government functionaries not providing gas to his area.

This natural gas resource-rich area, Thall tehsil, in Hangu district, does not get gas, which has caused the senator to tender his resignation during the meeting of the committee, saying “I don’t want to be member of such a powerless forum which the bureaucracy keeps deceiving and misleading.”

The then prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had approved a Rs920 million supply project to the Thall tehsil in Hangu district in 2011. But the directive was not implemented even two years later, causing the disheartened senator to resign.

The Petroleum Secretary, Abid Saeed, told the committee that neither the Planning Commission nor the Prime Minister’s Secretariat was willing to provide funds for the project. However, the senator retorted: “The bureaucracy has a tendency not to implement orders.”

Published in The Express Tribune, October 25^th, 2013.

COMMENTS (1)

Sophya Khan | 10 years ago | Reply for 5 very very long years, your party was in power both in Centre and in KPK sir, and look it the illusion creation here... tendered resignation just from the committee and gaining political mileage like he has quit the senate! wonderful... im waiting when Zahid Khan et al will blame this on PTI as well :)

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