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MQM alleges artificial power, water crisis in KarachiKARACH: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has demanded of the president and the prime minister to take notice of what it termed as an artificial power and water crises griping the provincial capital and commercial hub of Pakistan.
Addressing a press conference on Monday, MQM’s senior leader Haider Abbas Rizvi expressed serious concerns over the tug of war between the Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGC) and the Karachi Electric Supply Company Limited (KESC).
He said that there was an old dispute between the SSGC and the KESC and called on Sindh Governor Ishratul Ebad Khan to intervene and broker a deal between the two utilities.
Rizvi added that the entire nation was facing energy crisis and the MQM would extend full cooperation to the new government in addressing the crippling crisis.
The MQM leader said the water and energy crisis in Karachi had economic and political motives. He said that the MQM considered the crisis as artificial. Rizvi noted that any loss to Karachi amounted to a national loss.
He demanded of the president, interim prime minister, Sindh interim chief minister and Governor to take notice of power and gas crisis.
Courtesy www.geo.tv