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Rulers only concern protection of ill-gotten money: Moonis

LAHORE - How can people welcome 18th Amendment when confronted by the travails of 18-hours daily loadshedding, sky rocketing inflation and record high unemployment?
These views were expressed by Moonis Elahi, central leader of Pakistan Muslim League, while talking to party members here on Thursday. He said the prices of basic necessities have been increased as many as 18 times in the last two years. In the wake of nerve wrecking increase in prices of fuel and other commodities, the Punjab government’s decision to increase the water tariff by 75 per cent is another bolt from the blue for the people.
Moonis Elahi said the rulers were not bothered about the sufferings of the masses and their only concern was the protection of their ill-gotten wealth and power. He said Pakistan Muslim League had warned of the consequences of acquiring gas-run rental power units a year back but no attention was paid to these warnings at the time.
Today all our warnings unfortunately are coming true and people are facing not only the worst electricity and gas shortage in country’s history but on top also being forced to pay huge power and gas bills, said Moonis Elahi.
He said summaries for further increase by next month in power and natural gas rates were being prepared. The proposed increase would put a further unbearable burden on the already suffering people, he feared. He said electricity obtained from gas run rental power units would cost six times more than hydro electricity.
What good will be the electricity produced by rental power units if beyond people’s reach? Moonis Elahi asked.
He expressed his anger at WASA’s decision of 75 per cent increase in bills of commercial water connections and called it another draconian law imposed on the masses by Punjab rulers. Moonis Elahi alleged Punjab government of deliberately compromising Punjab’s rights and interests for personal gains.

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Moonis Elahi doubts govt ability to end outages

GROSS mismanagement of present rulers, their ad hoc and myopic policies, acquisition of expired rental power units, acceptance of strict IMF terms, maddening increase in power tariff coupled with power outages up to 18 hours a day have put an unprecedented load on citizens of Pakistan.

This was stated by PML-Q leader Moonis Elahi while talking to party workers in London the other day. He said the way the present government was handling the existing power crisis was extremely flawed. He stated that if the government did not revise its current power policies immediately there was every possibility that there might be electricity available in future but with very few people able to afford it. He said that the rumour was rife that the government was increasing power rates to a further 30 to 40 percent in the next few months.

He said that at present the country was engulfed in darkness, almost 60 pc factories had closed down, farms were giving a desolate look and there was an acute shortage of water and electricity for domestic users. He alleged that despite 12 to 18 hours of loadshedding in the country the power companies were sending consumers 20 to 30 pc inflated bills. He pointed out that only in Punjab over 30,000 industrial units had closed down due to power shortage and there was an alarming increase in public anger and protests but to no avail. He said the government in an unplanned and short-sighted manner was increasing the country’s reliance on fossil fuel for power generation whereas the long term solution to the problem was in implementing a pragmatic and aggressive hydel power policy.