No gas for Lahore industries

[yazdi]

Re: No gas for Lahore industries

@sachaydino

Thanks for your input on the issue. Sindh is the major producer of Gas and Oil. These are extracted from rural Sindh. But the majority of population of rural Sindh is living worse poverty level than Baluchistan. Why??? Why the Federal governments extracted so much from Sindh and in return Sindh is deprived of any benefit to these poor people?? It is a shame. This injustice done to the people of Sindh will bring further distintigration.

Thanks to this PPPP government that they have passed 18th Amendment at least recognizing the priority of provinces who produce oil and gas. PPP has done great service to the people of Sindh.

They are not doing service to the people of Sindh.. they are doing service to fertilizer producers and captive plant operators who pay huge commissions to them. They could have easily put a rational to the energy policy in the country.. and by increasing the well-head price could have actually done something for the poor rural Sindhi masses whom you rightly pointed out are worse off than Baluchistan people. Alas they did nothing for these people in last 4 years.The poor Sindhi peasants who were displaced by floods and are still living in pathetic situation could not pay huge commissions to your Sindhi boss who left them in the middle of the flood water to check his French chateau in Manoir de la Reine Blanche..

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\08\04\story_4-8-2010_pg7_32

President visits French chateau

MESNIL-LIEUBRAY: President Asif Ali Zardari visited his family’s stately home in the French countryside on Tuesday.

A French Air Force helicopter deposited Zardari in the grounds of the Manoir de la Reine Blanche (Manor of the White Queen) for a two-hour stopover in the 16th-century chateau, built for the widow of King Philippe VI. Journalists were kept at a distance from the elegant property, which is surrounded by five acres of lakes and wooded parkland and is listed on France’s register of historically significant monuments. The house has belonged to Zardari’s family for 24 years and the president’s father, Hakim Ali Zardari, is a regular summer visitor. “He’s a neighbour with whom we have excellent relations,” said local mayor Jerome Grisel, who owns a farm immediately adjoining the estate. afp