KARACHI (HRNW) The MQM-Pakistan has submitted a resolution in Sindh Assembly against the independent power producers (IPPs), media reported on Wednesday.
Leader of Opposition in Sindh Assembly Ali Khurshidi and Najam Mirza submitted resolution in the assembly’s secretariat.
“It will become an issue of survival if capacity charges continued to be paid to the IPPs,” the resolution read.
“Per unit price of the electricity has reached to an unbearable level for the industrial and domestic consumers,” according to the MQM resolution.
“Agreements with the IPPs and payments are burden on the economy. The power tariff has become intolerable with erroneous agreements made with the IPPs in past,” according to resolution.
The resolution called the IPP agreements a threat to the national security and sovereignty.