NOWSHERA: The All Pakistan Compressed Natural Gas Association, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter, and the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) have rejected the federal government’s plan to shut down CNG stations and demanded the rulers to reverse the decision forthwith.
“People will come on to roads if the government does not reopen CNG stations,” these concerns were expressed by the provincial chairman of CNG Association Alhaj Parvez Khattak and SCCI president Junaid Altaf during a meeting.
Addressing the gathering, SCCI president Junaid Altaf said that closing CNG stations was akin to snatching the morsel from the mouths of rickshaw and taxi drivers as well as thousands of poor labourers linked to the industry. He lamented that while KP had suffered for decades from terrorism and natural disasters like floods, its industrial zones had now been reduced to graveyards.
The SCCI chief added that as the borders with neighbouring countries closed, the province’s economic life remained paralysed. Alhaj Parvez Khattak said that while global energy challenges existed, the KP’s own gas production had increased, not decreased.
