Former president and Pakistan People's Party Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari has urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to help resolve Sindh's frequent and prolonged loadshedding issue as it has aggravated considerably in the current hot and humid weather.
In a letter sent to the prime minister on Monday, the PPP leader said that power crisis in Sindh has reached to such an extent that most parts of the province have been experiencing loadshedding for 20 hours in the holy month of Ramazan. Recalling his May 13 meeting with the premier at which Sindh's power crisis was discussed, the PPP leader said that later at a follow up meeting held between Sindh minister for finance and energy and the federal minister for water and power it was pointed that Sindh government had paid its electricity bill amounting to Rs 2.4 billion and hence the payment and tariff issues concerning Naudero and Dadu's small power plants, wind and small hydro plants should be resolved and the loadshedding period in the province be curtailed.
However, according to Sindh finance minister, federal ministry of water and power has not yet resolved these issues, the PPP leader's letter said, adding that the provincial minister has also written a letter to the federal minister on June 5 in this regard. Sindh Finance Minister Syed Mrad Ali Shah in his letter to federal minister for power has stated that people of the province have been facing immense hardships in the wake of loadshedding of longer duration.
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