Government delivered by mitigating energy crisis in country: PM

Government delivered by mitigating energy crisis in country: PM

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said the world is amazed at the speed with which Pakistan moved to resolve the energy crisis.

Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi says the Government has delivered by mitigating energy crisis in the country.

He was inaugurating Pakistan Oil and Gas Conference in Islamabad on Thursday.

The Prime Minister pointed out that the country's energy sector faced serious challenges and some of them still haunt us because no concrete efforts were made to address them.

He referred to the LNG import by the present Government and said it was because of this significant initiative that today power plants are running, CNG sector is operating, we are exporting fertilizer and every industry is getting gas round the clock.

The Prime Minister said within a short span of time, the present government signed a contract with Qatar for import of LNG and a terminal has been also constructed for the purpose. He said the world is amazed at the speed with which Pakistan moved to resolve the energy crisis.