PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party (ANP) has warned the federal government of launching protest campaign if unannounced and excessive loadshedding is not stopped in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Addressing a news conference at the Peshawar Press Club on Wednesday, ANP senior vice-president Ghulam Ahmad Bilour said that people were subjected to hours-long electricity loadshedding in the holy month of Ramazan. Terming it an injustice, he said that his party would not accept excessive electricity outages on pretext of power theft.
The ANP leader asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Minister for Water and Power Khwaja Mohammad Asif and Wapda chairman to immediately end the prolonged and unscheduled electricity loadshedding in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
“KP is producing electricity at low cost, which is being sold at double rates by the federal government,” he said, adding that it was also generating surplus electricity against its total consumption in the entire province.
He warned that if the federal government didn’t ensure smooth supply of electricity during the holy month of Ramazan, they would have no other option but to resort to protests. He said he and other party leaders including Haider Khan Hoti and Mian Iftikhar Hussain would lead the protest campaign. He said it was province’s right to fully exploit indigenous resources in the light of the 18th Constitutional Amendment, but added that the right was being denied by the centre.