LAHORE: PML-N President and Opposition Leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif has said the PTI government’s “criminal negligence, incompetence and corruption” are behind the worst gas crisis in the country.

“For the last three years, the people have been suffering from traumas, troubles and sufferings because of one failure after another of this PTI regime. The people are paying the cost of these disasters and indifference by the Imran Khan government. Despite the terminals built by Nawaz Sharif, the gas crisis signified the extreme incompetence of the government. This regime is the only reason behind this crisis because there was a terminal and capacity but the government had failed to provide gas in a timely and reasonable manner. At present less than half of the gas storage capacity in the terminals was being utilised”, Shehbaz said in a statement on Saturday.

He said this situation could have been avoided today if the government had focused on the issues of gas supply and public convenience instead of constantly lying and forcibly passing black laws.

He said that these crises would only end by getting rid of this government. The people had been thrown helplessly in front of the demons of inflation, unemployment, misery and agony. After the flour and sugar crisis, this gas shortage and inflation were absolute cruelty by this government, he lamented.

Published in Dawn, November 21st, 2021