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PML-N threatens to launch civil disobedience movement

December 21, 2011RECORDER REPORT

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday threatened to lunch civil disobedience movement against the government if it didn’t resolve the problem of gas load-shedding in Punjab. Abid Sher Ali of PML-N on a point of order in National Assembly said that federal government was targeting Punjab as far as gas load shedding was concerned.

He said that as many as 600,000 workers were being deprived of their livelihood due to closure of industrial units in Faisalabad owing to gas load shedding. He said that the people of Sindh were facing just 12 hours gas load shedding per week while Punjab was facing three to fours days per week load shedding. He said that gas load should be divided equally among the provinces. “If the government did not resolve the issue of gas load shedding, the PML-N can lunch civil disobedience movement against it,” he warned.

He said that the government was extorting money from the people in the name of fuel adjustment surcharge. He said that industrial units of Punjab were being closed down due to gas load shedding. Hanif Abbasi of PML-N raised the issue of gas load shedding in twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi.

He said that the PML-N had called for mass protest against gas load shedding in Rawalpindi. “I hope that the Interior Minister would assure the House to resolve this problem. We will call off this protest if the minister gives assurance to resolve the issue, otherwise he would be responsible for any law and order situation,” he warned.

Responding to the opposition members, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that the Secretary of Petroleum and Natural Resources had assured him that gas pressure would be normal till the evening in twin cities. He said that the government and opposition should sit together to resolve the issues.

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