Parliamentary Committee of Pakistan Industrial and Traders Association Front (PIAF) has urged the Prime Minister and Federal Minister for Finance to give priority to Thar Coal Project in the forthcoming budget to avoid loss of Rs 230 billion annually.
PIAF Chairman Sohail Lashari presided over the PIAF Parliamentary Committee meeting while LCCI President Irfan Qaiser Sheikh, former presidents Mian Anjum Nisar, Muhammad Ali Mian, former Senior Vice President Sheikh Muhammad Arshad and PIAF Senior Vice Chairman Nadir Kalam Osman were also present on the occasion.
Sohail Lashari said that country had vast coal reserves and scientists making out their best efforts to complete the project in shortest time but lack of funds was coming in the way. He said the country was facing massive energy crisis, adding electricity and gas load shedding had crippled the industrial and economic activities but government was showing least interest in solving the issue of energy crisis. Unavailability of gas and electricity forced a large number of industrialists to close down their industrial sectors of shift to the other countries and millions industrial workers become jobless, he said.
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