It is good to have
competition with in rank unless power politics comes into play. With power
politics no one seems to stick to his objective what he uses to be. This is
what politicians usually do. They are the best when they are not on treasury
benches. A political party will have the best possible solution to every crisis
and mismanagement if they are on opposition benches. When the same party comes
into treasury benches, they seems to have no clue not even that problem but
that issue too. It is a definite feature of third world democracy.
For Case Study:: Power Crisis in Pakistan.
If we look into
political campaign of parties for GE-2013, the power issue was on top of every
party manifesto and with several small other issues it also whip PPP in
GE-2013. If we focus on current government manifesto and speeches, (although
manifesto in Pak have no legal or moral value but just a tradition of
democratic parties so far but speeches have some value) the time span given for
resolving power crises was 6 months to 2 year which unfortunately doesn’t hold
up like other promises. The current government seems to be on same track of
their predecessor (scandalous power and petroleum ministries).
When Pakistan Muslim
League[Nawaz] was in opposition there leadership knew every bit about that
power ministry and their projects whether its Nandipur or RPP’s/IPP. From the
newspapers and their sources they also knew that Pakistan People Party (govt)
is awarding the contract to a blacklist company at that time which is illegal
too but when opposition came into power, they not only continue with that firm
but released extra funds for the project to make it one of the expensive in the
world in its category and they don’t have any clue.
Another issue is
importing LNG. No one in the entire country knows about the importing process
or documentation or pricing except the top gun of government and bad for
journalist and public that federal government doesn’t have any RTI law which
anybody can be exposed. Documents and regulator says one thing and the minster
says another. It seems like Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is running the ministry like
unregistered single member company where he place billions rupee order on a
phone call as he is answerable to no one and spending his own money not
taxpayers.
I am quite sure will
turn out to be the RPP of PPP tenure for PMLN as much I read about it
in news and articles.
The same goes with PTI
in KPK. Where they initially posted figure of 452.38 MW (quoted from PTI
twitter account) which will be obtained by micro project in which most are still
initiated on ground. If you go in detail of AGP report than it PTI progress in
power sector is also not good.
Every political party knows the
best when they are not in government.
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