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Under fire: Minister faces antithesis ire after PEDO BoD chairperson’s resignation
- Updated: June 23, 2016
PESHAWAR: Minister for Energy and Power Muhammad Atif Khan came underneath glow from a antithesis over a abdication of Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organisation (PEDO) Board of Directors Chairperson Shakil Durrani.
The antithesis shielded Durrani, observant he is an item to a range and a efficient proxy whose repute Muhammad Atif attempted to malign.
Opposition Leader Maulana Lutfur Rahman lifted a emanate in his residence on a K-P extra budget. Muhammad Atif responded to Rahman by observant there was no disproportion of opinion between Durrani and a K-P government.
“The supervision had motionless to run PEDO like it is a corporate zone entity,” he said. “Instead of posting bureaucrats, it wanted to move people from a marketplace during efficient salaries.”
Muhammad Atif answered points lifted by Durrani in his abdication minute to a arch minister. He combined Durrani was opposite a micro hydel energy plants and was looking towards bigger projects.
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The preparation apportion also took a possibility to take a appropriate during Durrani, who is also a former Wapda chairperson. He pronounced a executive energy and H2O application was one of a misfortune managed and many hurtful companies in a country. He also challenged a former PEDO chairperson to infer crime charges opposite him in court.
The apportion pronounced provincial authorities had been contacting Wapda and NTDC to compensate a delivery line to bond Machai and Ranolia to a inhabitant grid. However, a work is nonetheless to be done.
“The arch apportion supposed his abdication and destined us to examine allegations lifted in PEDO house of directors meeting.”
ANP personality Sardar Hussain Babak lashed out during Muhammad Atif, observant Durrani’s cunning was apparent.
“You partisan people and call them competent, observant they were hired by a pure process. However, after 4 months we mislay them and insult them by allegations.”
Bureaucratic hurdles
He also criticised a arch minister’s debate on Wednesday in that Khattak claimed a bureaucracy had to be taken to task.
“It depends on domestic will and policies of a government. If depends on how we their services. How can a bureaucracy work with we if we pronounce opposite them in each speech?” he asked.
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Raja Faisal Zaman of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz also shielded Durrani and called him a efficient and honest officer. “Incompetence in itself is corruption,” he told Muhammad Atif.
Babak was opposite handing over hydropower projects to a private sector. He asked a supervision to take loans instead as it will remove rights over electricity kingship given energy will be generated by privately-constructed projects.
“You are losing your palm over a kingship of projects for 30 years. Why don’t we take loans that we can compensate behind in 10 years?” he asked.
Babak pronounced a necessity in a 2015-16 bill was an outcome of domestic division in a financial department, that was pitching a ADP during picturesque total and not arrogant ones as presented.
He sought sum of supports expelled for a Billion Tree Tsunami plan in a 2015-16 bill and a swell made. Chief Minister’s Special Assistant on Environment Ishtiaq Urmar pronounced a dialect perceived Rs3.7 billion for a plan of that Rs1.14 billion was utilized and a rest surrendered.
Babak pronounced if a supervision was truly opposite fluctuating a Customs Act, 1969 to Malakand Division, it should take adult a matter with a Council of Common Interests (CCI).
Published in The Express Tribune, Jun 24th, 2016.