Pakistan People's Party (PPP) on Wednesday sought an explanation from the PML-N government on why controversial Rental Power Projects (RPPs) have been re-launched under a rubric. Nafisa Shah of PPP on a point of order sought an explanation from the government on why controversial Rental Power Projects (RPPs) have been re-launched after renaming.
She said these projects, first launched by the PPP government were opposed tooth and nail by the PML-N when it was in the opposition. She said the PPP government was taken to court in the RPP case and it faced serious charges against it. How, she asked, the same projects had now been declared transparent.
She said her party and their allies, and all parliamentarians, wanted to know how the current federal minister for water and power Khawaja Asif - who spent most of his time in the courts during last five years against the projects - prepared a summary and ECC approved these projects after changing the title as STIPP (Short-Term IPPs).