PTI, PPP express concern over growing ‘lawlessness’ in Punjab

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have strongly condemned the ruling party Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) workers’ for an attack on the Faisalabad police. Commenting on the attack by the MPA’s supporters on a local police station in Faisalabad to get his men freed who were the proclaimed offenders and were arrested by the police, the PTI and PPP provincial leaders said that the arrested persons were wanted in serious crimes under the terrorism act.

PTI backed the opposition leader in the Punjab Assembly while criticising the PMLN workers attack on the police and has announced to file a call attention notice in the assembly secretariat. He also termed it in a statement on Sunday as a result of bad governance of the Punjab chief minister who is not paying attention to the provincial law and order situation.

While PPP Punjab Secretary General Tanveer Ashraf Kaira, in a statement, said that the law and order situation is getting worst as the days are passing and the law makers of the ruling party are equally responsible for taking the law into their hands. Kaira said that the flouting of the law by the ruling party’s MPA, apparently without legal consequences, shows the bad governance of the Punjab government that was running on expensive media campaign from the taxpayer’s money, to project its unsubstantiated performance. He said that the government of Punjab’s track record in other sectors was equally appalling.

He referred to the disaster of the Nandipur Power Project that was lying idle after its inauguration with lot of fireworks, adding that it was no more contributing even a single MW in the national grid system. He reiterated that the Punjab chief minister had to eat a ‘humble pie’ when he recently announced that the PML-N would try to control load shedding by 2017. It may be recalled that during the election campaign, he committed publicly that he would control it in months and not in years. He observed that the credibility of this government had reduced to needle-point and the people were appreciating the PPP led previous coalition government when the load shedding duration was less than what they are facing now. He maintained that the Ramazan package of the Punjab government had also proved an utter disappointment because either the subsidised items were not available to the people and if they were available, they were of the low quality and not fit for human consumption.