June 23, 2015
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Imran expresses concern over mass deaths in Karachi
INP
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday expressed grave concerns over the mass deaths in Karachi due to extreme temperatures.
He said the government had totally failed the people in Karachi where there was no water and no electricity. “The situation in Karachi is one of chaos and lawlessness with no visible writ of the government visible. The people of Karachi have been effectively abandoned by the provincial and federal governments, both of whom have failed to provide the basic necessities of life to the people of the metropolis,” he added.
He expressed fears that in the far flung areas one would not even know the scale of the crisis in terms of lives lost due to heat, lack of water and power outages. “If Karachi is seeing a total helplessness in the face of unprecedented soaring temperatures and no water or electricity, the situation in the rural areas must be even more catastrophic,” he said. Imran Khan said the state of affairs in the context of excessive power outages had reached crisis proportions across Pakistan.
“In Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, which produces more electricity than it needs, and which it contributes to the national grid, the people of the province are suffering power outages for up to 18 hours at a stretch including at Sehr and Iftar times,” he noted. The PTI chief stated that it was abundantly clear the federal government had failed to even move towards resolving the electricity crisis across Pakistan.
“Even worse, it has failed to deliver on any of its hyped-up provinces about ending power outages in the country within months of coming to power. On the contrary, the energy crisis has become more acute since the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) formed the federal government,” he said. Imran Khan said a responsible and people-sensitive government would have focused on providing electricity and water to people, as well as ensuring measures to protect people from the soaring summer temperatures so lives would not be lost.
“Instead the present government has chosen to focus on expensive projects like metro buses, while people have no water and no electricity. This shows a total lack of concern for the ordinary citizen,” he added. The PTI chairman demanded that those responsible for the present power crisis should be held accountable. He also demanded that the government move to resolve the power and water crises on a war footing in order to avoid further loss of lives.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk