Zardari behind all ills: Shahbaz

LAHORE – Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has held President Asif Ali Zardari responsible for all the problems facing the country. Zardari is inconsiderate to the troubles of the masses, the chief minister told the media persons after hearing public complaints at his tent office at Minar-e-Pakistan on Monday.

Shahbaz Sharif said that the agonising loadshedding had placed the nation in a painful situation, whereas life of the general public had become miserable because of hours-long power outages. He said torturous loadshedding had brought the country’s economy to the brink of disaster and no one knew why Punjab and people of the province were being targeted and victimised.

Provincial ministers, assembly members and government officers were present on the occasion. The chief minister heard the complaints for over an hour and issued on-the-spot orders. The maximum number of complaints related to police, excessive billing of electricity, qabza groups and mutual disputes. Those seeking government jobs and financial assistance also met the chief minister.

“It is a grave injustice that industries and mills of the rest of the country are operating six days a week, however, in Punjab, industries and factories are running for only three to four days, because of massive loadshedding,” Shahbaz Sharif held.

He noted that the former prime minister had announced uniform loadshedding throughout the country, but the decision was never implemented. He held Zardari responsible for all the ills that the people were facing today, as he had no concern with their problems and difficulties. Shahbaz Sharif observed that had problems of the people been fully realised, the decision of uniform loadshedding throughout the country would have been implemented.

He said the DISCOS of Punjab were earning profit, however, unfortunately, this profit was being utilised to meet the losses of other power distribution companies in the rest of the country. The chief minister said that he had no expectations from the new prime minister of bringing relief to the people by resolving energy crisis.

Meanwhile, Pakistan Muslim League-N’s Central Secretariat was formally inaugurated on Monday evening.

The secretariat has been constructed at the ancestral house of Sharif Family at 180-H Model Town. PML-N President Nawaz Sharif in his address on the occasion also referred to late Mian Sharif besides refreshing the memories of his childhood and youth. This building of over an area of 11-kanal has been donated by the Sharif Family for the Secretariat while the expenses on the construction born by Muslim League-N Overseas especially Gulf Region. President PML-N Gulf Region Noor-ul-Hassan Tanvir, Secretary Iftikhar Butt as well as a large number of Muslim League leaders and workers from Gulf st

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