Pakistan's Load Shedding: ‘Govt didn't keep word even in Ramazan’

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) central Punjab president Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo has criticised the government for continuing loadshedding during Sehr, Iftar and taraveeh prayers despite its claim that there will be no outages during these times. In a statement issued here on Friday, Wattoo said the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government could not even keep its word during the holy month of Ramazan. The PPP leader said that Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Asif had confessed that loadshedding could not be overcome even in three years. He said the minister disappointed people, who were already fed up with the new wave of price-hike unleashed by the PML-N government during the last one month. He said the worst had yet to come. Wattoo said implementation of International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) conditions would unleash another spell of inflation when the government would increase the electricity tariff for domestic consumers. He said the government decided at a recent meeting to increase the power tariff for commercial consumers with immediate effect.