Why Shahbaz Sharif Sink Punjab in Load Shedding? (If you want to know why more load shedding in Punj

[adeel ahmed1]

Despite all sympathies with my fellow Punjabis, but have you ever think that why Punjab is more effected by Gas Shedding and Load Shedding and who is responsible behind it. If I say beside Federal Govt., its Shahbaz Sharif who is responsible for it. I am afraid I look like Raja Riaz (God Forbid) by blaming Shahbaz Sharif but unfortunately it is lack of vision of PML-N led Punjab Govt. because of which my province Punjab is suffering.

Please read below: PML-N signed 18th amendment with only one thing in its mind; the removal of ban on 3rd time premiership.PPP didn't have such compulsion as Benazir had passed away till that time.No other party in the parliament had any such compulsion either.Moreover, ANP had the major demand of renaming Sarhad province as Pakhtoonkhaw. MQM, Baloch and Sindhi nationalists had the demand of more provincial autonomy.In this perspective, 18th amendment was drafted.During this process Noon League compromised two big issues just for the sake of removing the ban on Nawaz Sharif becoming prime minister for the 3rd time.

One of those issues was renaming the Sarhad Province.PMLN yielded to the demand of ANP because the latter had threatened to not give vote against the ban on 3rd time premiership.This selfishness and near-sightedness of Noon League gave birth to Hazara Sooba, Sriaki Sooba and now Mohajir Sooba movements.The Noon mafia didn't propose the names like 'Pakhtoonkhaw Hazara' or 'Haraza PakhtoonKhaw'.Instead they were advocating for 'Abaseen' and 'Khyber' which were not acceptable to ANP.Noon League duffers couldn't even learn from PPP who had very cleverly made the nothern areas into a new province with the name Gilgit Baltistan.This name represents both the languages of nothern areas - the balti language and the gilgiti language.

Th[HI]e second selfishness/near-sightedness of Noon League was that it agreed in 18th amendment that a resource(s) will be used first up by the province that produces it.When the requirement of that province will be met, only then it will allow the other province to use that resource(s).Principally speaking, the logic is correct.But when you look in Pakistan's perspective, it should have been implemented in two or 3 phases over a period of 5 years.This would have given time to a province to look for the alternatives if it lacked in a certain resource.

Now, due to this, Punjab is facing more loadshedding of gas and electricity as compared to other provinces.Gas is primarily found in Balochistan and Sindh.So, 18th amendment gives SSGPL right to have more gas at its disposal to give to Sindh industry.On the other hand, SNGPL has less gas at its disposal (because Punjab produces little gas) due to which industry in Faisalabad and Lahore is severely affected.As far as electricity is concerned, it is being produced using three resources namely water, gas and furnace oil.Hydro electricity is produced by Kashmir (Mangla Dam) and KPK (Tarbela Dam).Punjab and Sindh produce electricity through gas and furnace oil.Since Sindh is providing gas to thermal plants situated in Punjab and Sindh, so it is getting more share from the electricity.On the other hand, Punjab has no other choice but to rely on furnace oil to produce electricity which is a very costly deal.Since federal govt has not paid the circular debt, so the IPPs in Punjab are not importing furnace oil in due amount, resulting in very less production of electricity from their plants.As a result, there is more loashedding in Punjab as compared to Sindh or KPK.[/HI]

 

[Ayubi]

Hilarious indeed What a naive person u are. It is better to write after having complete grasp over issue.

[h=1]The scavengers of Pakistan[/h]By Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif
Published: September 3, 2011

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The writer is chief minister of Punjab

In February of this year, a new PEPCO power plant was due to become operational at Nandipur which would have supplied 450 MW of much-needed electricity to industry, agriculture and households. Unfortunately, inaction by the federal government has delayed its completion by more than two years.
In January 2008, Pepco signed a $329 million contract with Dong Fang Electric of China and paid it a 10 per cent down payment. The ministry of finance issued a sovereign guarantee for this project, on the basis of which Dong Fang put together a consortium of lenders who established a Letter of Credit for the import of the equipment. By mid-2010 much of the work at this plant was complete, the turbines were in place and it looked like the project would be finished on schedule in early 2011. This activity took place in anticipation of the ministry of law and justice approving the financial agreements and the sovereign guarantee issued by the Ministry of Finance — a routine process in such projects, normally taken as a matter of course.
Bizarrely, this was not the case here. Instead, the ministry chose to sit on the matter for over a year, despite the urgency of Pakistan’s power requirements. As a result, the lenders stopped their funding, the equipment was not cleared at the port, and the project came to a grinding halt. The remaining equipment, which consists of more than 4,500 packages of plant and machinery have since been lying in the open at Karachi port for over a year, at a demurrage cost of Rs700 million. These packages are a standing testament to inefficiency, negligence and corruption.
In the same year, a second, identical, 450MW power plant had been agreed for Chichon kee Mallian, with the same contractor, Dong Fang, and the same consortium of lenders for a contract price of $352 million (approx Rs31 billion). Here also, Pepco made a 10 per cent down payment, and the project was scheduled to be completed in February 2012. However, after the incomprehensible behaviour of the law ministry in the Nandipur project, the financing consortium refused to establish the letter of credit until all outstanding clearances were issued. As a result, the project has also been delayed by at least two years. Resuming both the projects today at current prices and exchange rates, settling claims by the contractor as well as additional financial charges, will entail an additional cost of about $200 million (approx Rs18 billion), aside from the two year delay, lost earnings through lost exports, and jobs that the higher power output would have created in the nation’s economy.
The real tragedy, though, is the delay in the nation being able to use the additional 900 MW — almost one fifth of Pakistan’s present shortage — that these two plants would have generated (bearing in mind that the economy is losing approximately 2.5 per cent of GDP on account of lack of power).
After the repeated requests of the Punjab government (although this was a project that would have benefited not just Punjab but the whole country), the prime minister has finally instructed the law ministry to approve the financial arrangements and the sovereign guarantee issued by his own ministry of finance. The ECC has had to waive the customs duties and demurrage for the equipment lying at the port, and it is hoped that these two projects undertaken by the federal government may now resume.
Above all, the ongoing damage to our economy means the loss of jobs to thousands of people, and countless hours of unnecessary, avoidable and painful load-shedding for millions of households over the next few years. As for the law ministry, it might hide its bureaucratic inefficiency over some weak pretext — after all corruption always shelters behind weak excuses. But which of the ministry’s spokespersons can justify this criminal delay in a matter so vital to the well-being of our economy!
The people must rid our country once and for all of parasites; the people must seize these looters by the collar and demand answers in the name of the generations whose futures have been so deceitfully squandered by the scavengers of Pakistan. By the pen or by the long hard road, we will save this country.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 4[SUP]th[/SUP], 2011.

 

[adeel ahmed1]

[MENTION=24553]Ayubi[/MENTION]: This is what I am saying that Mr. Shahbaz Shareff couldnt foresee the furture difficulties in producing Power and agree on 18th Amendment in haste and that agreement is hurting Punjab. As a CM Punjab it was his duty to protect the rights of Punjab but he failed to do so. I am not talking about intention but strategically he couldnt protect the right of Punjab and couldnt foresee while signing the 18th Amendment.

In Punjab Electricity crises Punjab Govt lack of vision is there.

 

[abdullah.drs]

Moreover Punjab Govt has not started even 1 project for producing electricity..He hasnt produced 1 MW of electricity and now Shehbaz is doing dramas trying to distance themselves from their stupid compromise in 18th ammendment

 

[adeel ahmed1]

Shahbaz Sharif lack of vision bring Punjab in this state, he must think before signing 18th Amendment and NFC

 

[Ayubi]

OMG!.. bhai jo articla maine post kia hai ushe zara aram or thanday dil se parho... Ap ne article parha he ni ur khuwa mukha ke tanfeed shro kar de hai. Cheecho ke malian and nandi pur mai projects punjab govt he complt karwa rahe tehe. Ministry of finance ke itakamana rawiye ke waja se ye projects abhe complete ni hway. PML-N ne supreme court mai case file kia hwa hai es unjustice ke khilaf. Hearings b start hain. please come on yar devolution of powers to provinces ek standard practice hai jo dunya bhar mai raij hai. we think beyond prejudices. Failure tb hota jb wo koi projects initiate he na karta

 

[truthinworld]

OMG!.. bhai jo articla maine post kia hai ushe zara aram or thanday dil se parho... Ap ne article parha he ni ur khuwa mukha ke tanfeed shro kar de hai. Cheecho ke malian and nandi pur mai projects punjab govt he complt karwa rahe tehe. Ministry of finance ke itakamana rawiye ke waja se ye projects abhe complete ni hway. PML-N ne supreme court mai case file kia hwa hai es unjustice ke khilaf. Hearings b start hain. please come on yar devolution of powers to provinces ek standard practice hai jo dunya bhar mai raij hai. we think beyond prejudices. Failure tb hota jb wo koi projects initiate he na karta

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ڈِگّا کھوتے تُوں۔۔۔ تے غصہ کمیار تے"۔"​

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[MENTION=23251]adeel ahmed1[/MENTION]

 

[adeel ahmed1]

[MENTION=24553]Ayubi[/MENTION]: I agree that Federal is doing hurdles but when existing resources of Punjab was incapable to support electricity requirements of Punjab then why PML-N agree on formula of 18th Amendment. Dont they foresee that people of Punjab may suffer because of this.

I am not questioning intention of PML-N nor defending the intention of PPP but questioning the vision and foresee capability of PML-N. They make people of Punjab dependent on PPP.

I hope you understand my point. I m not Raja Riaz.

 

[adeel ahmed1]

@Ayubi: I agree that Federal is doing hurdles but when existing resources of Punjab was incapable to support electricity requirements of Punjab then why PML-N agree on formula of 18th Amendment. Dont they foresee that people of Punjab may suffer because of this.

I am not questioning intention of PML-N nor defending the intention of PPP but questioning the vision and foresee capability of PML-N. They make people of Punjab dependent on PPP.

I hope you understand my point. I m not Raja Riaz.​

 

[Sedqal]

If you don't oppose political parties just for the sake of opposing them you will see that 18th Amendment as a whole is an excellent legislation. Historically natural resources in Pakistan have been utilized by Federal government where provincial governments had by design a very low degree of control. For the first time Federation has agreed to an old grievance of Baluchistan that as a province they should be given more control over there own resources. What was happening before was morally wrong how can someone justify that Sui gas was not available in large areas within Baluchistan but was available for the rest of the country? Today the crises in Punjab is because for the first time Baluchistan has been given its proper share and that was the only way forward. What should PMLN or any governing political party from Punjab do? Exploit Baluchistan more when we already have civil war type situation there.

Also PMLN does not own 62 % (or whatever) of Pakistan as that 62% does not include 62% of resources, foreign exchange/ GDP or area, this percentage also ignores the share of other political parties within Punjab. This concentration of population is a liability (unless in coming decades we turn into knowledge society) as Punjab Govt. has to provide for them, its not an asset as PTI seems to imply.

 

[adeel ahmed1]

[MENTION=27148]Sedqal[/MENTION]: You started defending 18 Amendment, my point is not 18 Amendment bad but why PML-N couldnt foresee the result on Punjab and shall ensure some resources before its implementation. Where Punjab is standing now is bad intention of Fedral Govt., plus the lack of vision of Punjab Govt.