Scrapping Pak-Iran gas pipeline project anti-people decision: PPP

Islamabad: Central Information Secretary Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) Shazia Atta Marri has said that scrapping Pak-Iran gas pipeline project was like enmity with the country’s people.
She said former President Asif Ali Zardari introduced great development projects like economic corridor project of Gwadar and Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline during his government.

She said the decisions regarding foreign policy of the country was discussed and decided by the Parliament during Asif Ali Zardari’s government.
Marri maintained that former President Asif Ali Zardari empowered the parliament and made the country independent and nowadays, our country is in trouble because of selected government of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI).

She said non-supply of gas to industries in the country is the “height of incompetence” of PTI-led government. She added that emerging gas crisis during summer season is the result of bad economic policies of Prime Minster Imran Khan.
Marri said people were also facing difficulties due to severe load shedding in the country on other side.