LAHORE (NNI): Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Monday revealed the latest figures about overbilling and promised to continue with a crackdown on power theft, as people in Pakistan are crushed by a stubborn inflation which has been exacerbated by rising energy costs.
Addressing a press conference, he said not only affluent and state power consumers but also poor households were a victim of overbilling, adding that the Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) had charged a total of additional 830 million units – a practice to hide the failure to check line losses and power theft.
Naqvi also said that the authorities were acting vigorously against those involved in power theft and especially mentioned the efforts being made in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan in this connection where the practice is more rampant.
India had been directly involved in assassinations and terror acts in Pakistan and there were indications that it might be the case in the murder of Amir Tanba as well.
Amir Sarfraz alias Amir Tanba was shot dead in Lahore a day earlier. He had murdered Indian terrorist Sarabjit Singh in Kot Lakhpat Jail in 2013, as Naqvi said India was behind in four similar killings in the past. NNI
