PTI lawmakers leads protest against crackdown on illegal gas and electricity connections

aazad.mubassir

Minister (2k+ posts)
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PESHAWAR: Some members of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Thursday blocked roads in the provincial capital against the law-enforcement agencies over the ongoing campaign against illegal gas and electric supply connections.


Hundreds of people from rural localities and led by MPAs Fazal Ilahi (PK-6) and Arif Yousaf (PK-4) staged a demonstration outside Peshawar Press Club and observed a sit-in on the busy Sher Shah Suri Road for many hours. The protest led to traffic jams on Saddar Road prompting police to divert vehicles to other roads. The people coming in from Saddar were not allowed to use Sher Shah Suri Road. Protesters, who were shouting slogans against the federal government for not ensuring smooth power and gas supply to them, said they faced worst kind of loadshedding in the current hot and humid weather but Peshawar Electric Supply Company and Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited were indifferent to their misery. They said SNGPL and Pesco teams accompanied by police and FIA personnel had disconnected supply of gas and electricity to them and thus, forcing them to take to the streets. The protest stressed out the road users as police facilitated the demonstrators by stretching barbed wire at different places of one lane to restrict movement of vehicle and pedestrians. The public had to use one lane of the road which led to long queues from the press club building to Shoba Bazaar and Peshawar High Court building. Speaking on the occasion PTI leader Fazal Ilahi said the federal government instead of arresting the corrupt people in Wapda and SNGPL was bent on creating problems for the provincial government by observing prolonged gas and power loadshedding. “The government has tasked FIA with disconnecting power and gas supply to consumers instead of coordinating with the relevant elected representatives for the issue settlement. In such a situation when the federal government has begun harassing the poor people, we’re left with no choice but to step out and agitate,” he said. Mr Ilahi said both the Sui gas and Pesco had sent inflated bills to the consumers to recover their line losses despite regular payment of bills and that the officials of the departments themselves were involved in gas and power theft. “No one can get illegal connection without support of the relevant linemen, operators and SDOs,” he said, adding that first, the government should hold its officials accountable and then, all elected representatives were ready to extend full cooperation to recovery teams. The MPA said the federal government should stop FIA from raiding houses of the poor people and correct the inflated bills and if that happened, then the people would pay bills on a regular basis otherwise they would continue protest. “We have convinced the people to stay peaceful otherwise the prolonged loadshedding in such hot and humid weather would have forced them to turn violent,” he said asking SNGPL and Pesco to ensure smooth gas and electric supply to the people. However, SNGPL and Pesco officials insisted that they had initiated a campaign against illegal gas and power connections but the elected representatives were supporting the wrongdoers. They said the people paying bills regularly had been suffering due to the defaulters and illegal gas users.


3,000 ILLEGAL GAS CONNECTIONS CUT OFF: SNGPL general manager Saqib Arbab on Thursday said around 3,000 illegal gas connections had been severed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the last two months, while cases against the relevant consumers had been referred to police for registration of FIRs. He told reporters that of the illegal gas users, 44 were stated to be industrialists, mainly from southern districts of the province. Mr Arbab said local police, FIA and SNGPL had constituted joint raiding parties to check illegal gas use and arrest the consumers. “We have begun a one-window operation for provision of new connections, bill correction and problem resolution,” he said. The SNGPL general manager said the new gas connections were given on merit and no out-of-turn connections would be given even to the influential people. He said in the past, some organised groups remained involved in gas theft and eight such groups had been busted. Mr Arbab said those groups provided illegal connections to the people and collected monthly bills from them but did not give a single penny to SNGPL. “We have begun giving new connections and decided to install around 14,000 gas meters in the province by the end of this year,” he said, adding that all those who had applied for gas connections in 2009 and 2010 should contact the nearest SNGPL offices to check serial number for connections. Mr Arbab asked the people to avoid paying money to the ‘touts’ for new connections as they had no role in this respect.


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Politcs

Minister (2k+ posts)
Re: : PTI lawmakers leads protest against crackdown on illegal gas and electricity connections

In kpk if you ask for bill then they hit you with the bullet in your head. Loadshedding is in whole pakistan but people who have no meters and gas connection but still using it has no right of protest. Now theives are doing protest that they are not allowed to steal. Mashallah
 

Mansoor Khan

Senator (1k+ posts)
Re: : PTI lawmakers leads protest against crackdown on illegal gas and electricity connections

In kpk if you ask for bill then they hit you with the bullet in your head. Loadshedding is in whole pakistan but people who have no meters and gas connection but still using it has no right of protest. Now theives are doing protest that they are not allowed to steal. Mashallah

Kabhi gaye bhi ho ya kpk ya wese shi badboo chor rahey ho?
 

chargootay

MPA (400+ posts)
Re: : PTI lawmakers leads protest against crackdown on illegal gas and electricity connections

Attock se agay gaye nai hogay sari zinday apnay se fazool lagay huay ho ... its Gujranwala, Faisalabad and Lahore where the most losses for GAS and Electricity are recorded.

daoosa la kho!
 

shafi3859

Minister (2k+ posts)
Re: : PTI lawmakers leads protest against crackdown on illegal gas and electricity connections

1- KPK producing rs 2 / unit and federation bill them 10/ unit on average.... w.t.h...........
2- In Karachi so many goths, flats and colonies are using illegal connections
3- PML n sitting ministers are biggest thiefts of elec for their industrial units...

So do not blame whole of a community at once.. there are exceptional cases .... pakistan is using 90% hydel power produced by KPK, who the hell r giving them royality and share in the profit... no one... so

just shut up

In kpk if you ask for bill then they hit you with the bullet in your head. Loadshedding is in whole pakistan but people who have no meters and gas connection but still using it has no right of protest. Now theives are doing protest that they are not allowed to steal. Mashallah
 

Altaf Lutfi

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
bhayya ! apnay ko koi khas masroofiyyat tu hai naheen.hakoomat mil gai hai magar hakoomat karnay ka saleeqa nai, problems kaafi hain lekin hal karnay mein dimagh khapai kon karay kuchh rishta daar bharti kara lain,itna hi kaafi hai. bewaqoof workers k sailaab ko kisi taraf masroof karna hi munasib hai.lihaza jab tak iqtedaar ka dhol baj raha hai, hum se ehtejaaj, inteshaar aur dharnay ki hi ummeed rakho.kaam waam anay wali hakoomat sekara lena.
 

khipk

Senator (1k+ posts)
Re: : PTI lawmakers leads protest against crackdown on illegal gas and electricity connections

1- KPK producing rs 2 / unit and federation bill them 10/ unit on average.... w.t.h...........
2- In Karachi so many goths, flats and colonies are using illegal connections
3- PML n sitting ministers are biggest thiefts of elec for their industrial units...

So do not blame whole of a community at once.. there are exceptional cases .... pakistan is using 90% hydel power produced by KPK, who the hell r giving them royality and share in the profit... no one... so

just shut up

Ok firstly: The hydel power was generated by investment of federal govt of Pakistan, which took loan from international consortium for financing it on interest and has to repay it back.
secondly, if theres a royalty issue it would be paid to the KP govt, it in no sense justifies nonpayments and steeling by any private individual.
and lastly, the recovery in Punjab and Karachi is much higher than KP, which is almost close to 10% comparing that to 50-60% in Karachi and higher in Punjab. Just because the part you support has won the election there, it does not justify the wrong doings
 

aimless

Minister (2k+ posts)
bro what is wrong is wrong .. one can't say becz someone else is doing that so i can do it too ... center also get very cheap gas from blochistan and sell it on high rates thats how govt. works
 

پاکستانی

Councller (250+ posts)
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پشاور میں لوڈشیڈنگ کے خلاف احتجاج کے دوران پی ٹی آئی کے کارکن نے اسلحہ کمر
کے پیچهے چهپا رکها ہے




 
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rtabasum2

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Re: پشاورمیں پی ٹی آئی کا لوڈشیڈنگ کےخلاف احت&

:mash::mash::mash::mash::mash::mash::mash:better give us our due share of electricity or else u know now
 

Believer12

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Re: پشاورمیں پی ٹی آئی کا لوڈشیڈنگ کےخلاف احت&

یہ سول لباس میں گارڈ ھے حفاظتی نکتہ نظر سے اسلحہ رکھنے میں کوی حرج نھیں ھے۔ھاں ھوای فائرنگ وغیرھ نہ کی گئ ھے اور نہ ایسا کوی واقعہ رپورٹ ھوا ھے
 

rtabasum2

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Re: پشاورمیں پی ٹی آئی کا لوڈشیڈنگ کےخلاف احت&

یہ سول لباس میں گارڈ ھے حفاظتی نکتہ نظر سے اسلحہ رکھنے میں کوی حرج نھیں ھے۔ھاں ھوای فائرنگ وغیرھ نہ کی گئ ھے اور نہ ایسا کوی واقعہ رپورٹ ھوا ھے

He is just a show off , PTI should take care that its members don't take law in their hands
 

Jshah

Minister (2k+ posts)
Re: پشاورمیں پی ٹی آئی کا لوڈشیڈنگ کےخلاف احت&

This is photo shop mericle and a gun is just pasted behind this person.
 

Jshah

Minister (2k+ posts)
Re: پشاورمیں پی ٹی آئی کا لوڈشیڈنگ کےخلاف احت&

Just look carefully this person's body posture whose back a gun is pasted, you will understand if he was carrying any gun or its just pasted behind him by any PMLN's media terrorist and liar.
 

Mehrushka

Prime Minister (20k+ posts)
Re: پشاورمیں پی ٹی آئی کا لوڈشیڈنگ کےخلاف احت&

:mash::mash::mash::mash::mash::mash::mash:better give us our due share of electricity or else u know now


Ooohhh threats.....federal govt dar Gaye.....dekho unke haath kaaamp rahein hain(bigsmile)
 

Mehrushka

Prime Minister (20k+ posts)
Re: پشاورمیں پی ٹی آئی کا لوڈشیڈنگ کےخلاف احت&

This is photo shop mericle and a gun is just pasted behind this person.
p[hilar][hilar][hilar] oh comon it's not photoshopped:)
 

shafi3859

Minister (2k+ posts)
Re: : PTI lawmakers leads protest against crackdown on illegal gas and electricity connections

You catagoricaly mentioned Pakhtons (though m not a pakhtoon) as thiefts (I challenge u to claim such statement in Peshawer and u will find an appropriate answer)... for your kind info except tribal area there are no such statistics that KPK has a high rate of "Kunda" system... Karachi has a highest rate of "Kunda" as far as common ppl r concern. while in Punjab Industrialists are looting Gas and elecricity as it is thier right to do so (likes of Khuram dastgeer, Itifaq foundary are also involved)....

Ironey of the situation is not about who paid for production (federal govt is not consist of only punjab , though it has more thn required punjabies in "afser shahi")

so if you can pay 80 biliion ruppes for 27 km road in lahore , can't u pay equal amount for hydel project in KPK, the question is that kpk total need of energy is about 2000 MW (producing 5000~6500 MW) and promised units are 1200 MW ... but still federation is shifting Loadshedding even exceeding required times to KPK. from centrel grids....


(think of a public who know that their province is producing more then its required energy, if they utilize all their energy resources, KPK would b booming in industrial sector, on the other hand mr. shahbaz shareef denied the suply of wheat to KPK)

Ok firstly: The hydel power was generated by investment of federal govt of Pakistan, which took loan from international consortium for financing it on interest and has to repay it back.
secondly, if theres a royalty issue it would be paid to the KP govt, it in no sense justifies nonpayments and steeling by any private individual.
and lastly, the recovery in Punjab and Karachi is much higher than KP, which is almost close to 10% comparing that to 50-60% in Karachi and higher in Punjab. Just because the part you support has won the election there, it does not justify the wrong doings
 

پاکستانی

Councller (250+ posts)
Re: پشاورمیں پی ٹی آئی کا لوڈشیڈنگ کےخلاف احت&

Just look carefully this person's body posture whose back a gun is pasted, you will understand if he was carrying any gun or its just pasted behind him by any PMLN's media terrorist and liar.

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shafi3859

Minister (2k+ posts)
Re: پشاورمیں پی ٹی آئی کا لوڈشیڈنگ کےخلاف احت&

PTI consist of common ppl , who r not as idealists as Imran khan. What PML n did during elections in punjab more and more ppl will turn violant against such system and they will snatch their right by force....

There is always a time when public can not b handled by leaders becuse opponents r taking advantage of "Sharafat"...

What happend in Lahore and other cities of Punjab, Public will definetly look for other options to express against supressions