LAHORE: Secretary General of Jamaat e Islami, Liaqat Baloch has
condemned the fresh raise of over Rs. 3 per unit in the electricity
tariff and said the government was charging Goonda Tax from the helpless
masses in the name of fuel adjustment.
He has appealed to the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to take suo moto notice of the
matter. He believed that the loss suffered by the government on account
of electricity theft was being recovered from the consumers in the name
of fuel adjustment, a term that had been introduced by the present
government.
He was of the view that an impartial enquiry into
Fuel Adjustment would reveal a much bigger scandal than the Rental power
Projects. He said such excessive use of fuel was neither believable nor
did the fuel prices changed to such an extent every month on which
basis the tariff had been raised by more than Rs. 3 per unit. This was
sheer extortion.
He said that only last month, the electricity
tariff had been raised by Rs.3. 04, and with the addition of GST and
E.Q. tax the per unit increase would be to the tune of Rs.4.5. Online
