Govt creating crises: Wattoo

LAHORE: A meeting of the divisional coordinator, district presidents and party office-bearers was held on Monday under the chairmanship of Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo, President PPP Central Punjab, to review arrangements regarding the upcoming Workers’ Convention.
The workers’ conventions will be held in all the 36 districts of Punjab.
The meeting decided that the first convention would be held in Shaikhupura on February 7 for which Asef Khan, President PPP, Shaikhupura, had been asked to make the befitting arrangements to give the campaign a jump start.
The divisional coordinators, who attended the meeting, included Chaudhry Manzoor Ahmed, Lahore, Raja Riaz Ahmed, Faisalabad,Tasneem Qureshi, Sargodha, Ejaz Summan, Gujranwala, and district presidents Ashraf Sohna, Okara, Chaudhry Zaki, Shiwal, Hamyun Sarwar Bodla, Pakpattan, Jamil Kalas, Kasur, Roy Shah Jehan Bhatti, Nankana Sahib, Asef Khan, Shaikhupura, Dewan Shamin, Mandi Bahuddin, Asef Nagra, Lahore, Zahid Zulfiqar, Lahore and presidents of districts Narowal, Sialkot, Khushab, and Jehlum.
While addressing the meeting, Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo bitterly criticised the present government for creating back to back crisis of the scale the people of Pakistan never experienced in the past. The ineptness and mismanagement of this government cannot be defined in words due to its abject magnitude, he added.
He observed that the non-availability of gas and electricity had ruined the agriculture and textile sectors in particular because textile had failed to capitalise on the GSP plus facility and farmers were unable to run their tube-wells and the prospects of good crop were dismal.
He said textile and agriculture sectors were the major earners of foreign exchange but the pathetic load-shedding of gas and electricity would deprive the country of foreign exchange earnings.