FAISALABAD: Mr Sher Ali, ex-MNA and former city mayor, has alleged Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah is involved in the recent killing of a police sub-inspector.

Earlier, Mr Ali had accused the law minister of masterminding the killing of as many as 20 people, including his own aide Bhola Gujjar.

Talking to reporters after addressing a foundation stone laying ceremony of 132-KV Faisalabad city grid station at Jhal Khanuana intersection organised by the Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco), he alleged that law minister was actually a “law breaker”.

SI Atif was gunned down on Nov 9 last by unidentified assailants when he was on his way home after playing hockey at Madina Town stadium.

Rana Sanaullah, instead of responding to the allegations, told the electronic media that Mr Sher Ali had lost his senses after defeat in the elections and he needed treatment.

“I can only pray to God for his health,” he added.

On the occasion, Mr Sher Ali also appealed to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif not to privatise Fesco because it was a “profitable entity”.

He said now the actual issue was economical production of electricity.

He said hurdles were being created in the way of prime minister who wanted to rid the country of energy crisis because “negative elements” feared the PML-N would be in power for the next term as well by resolving the power crisis.

The same “negative elements” had started to gang up against China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to make it controversial like Kalabagh dam “at the behest of their foreign masters”, he added.

He said the CPEC would benefit the entire country.

Fesco Chief Executive Rasheed Aslam said the gas-insulated (GIS) grid station, to be first of its kind in the country, would be complete within 10 months at a cost of Rs880 million.

He said the new grid would ultimately help end forced loadshedding and benefit four 132kv grid stations set up at Samundri Road, Jaranwala Road, Factory Area and Old Thermal. The grid station will have 1.62 kilometre transmission line, 14 poles and a 40-MVA power transformer.

Published in Dawn, January 10th, 2016