KARACHI: Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have demanded the federal government their share in electricity and asked for consultation with the provincial governments for development projects.
Talking to media at the Sindh CM House, Chief Ministers Qaim Ali Shah and Pervez Khattak also urged the federal government to name the under-construction airport in Islamabad after Abdul Sattar Edhi.
The Sindh chief minister said that the federal government never consulted the provincial governments while working out its development programme, adding, “This was an injustice with the smaller provinces which were left with no option but to launch protest campaigns.”
The KP chief minister alleged that the federal government was stealing 500MW electricity of his province and 1,000MW of Sindh. “I have taken up this issue with the federal government and now it is the turn of the Sindh government to fight out its case with the centre,” he said, adding that his province was being denied 100 MMCF of gas despite an agreement reached with the federal government.
