The torture of loadshedding has again hit every one, eight hours in cities and twice as much in rural areas in mid winter. It would be further maximized in the coming summer. The PPP’s five years rule has given us the gift of prolonged loadshedding that has paralyzed all industrial, educational and social activities for a large part of the day. The progress of a country is measured by the rate of power used by it, the shortage of which retarded our progress, all due to lack of interest and planning by our rulers. The failure to build a single hydrolectric dam for the last four decades has plunged the country into the dark ages with no relief in sight. The carrot dangled before the eyes of gullible people Bhasha Dam would be on line in next 12-15 years, while two ground breakings of the project site have been blasted in 2006 and 2011 with no report of any progress in the past seven years. By this time Kalabagh Dam would have been built to rid the country of endemic water and power shortage, but this was not to be courtesy of the ruling coalition of PPP, ANP, MQM and opposition party of PML (N).
DR. MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTI,
Lahore, January 31.