Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry Wednesday said the prime minister has ordered immediate removal of the managing directors of Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) and the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL).
In a tweet, the minister said in recent days, the people faced severe crisis of gas and the prime minister had constituted a committee for determining the responsibility of the gas crisis. He said the report of the inquiry committee was presented to the prime minister on Tuesday. He said in view of the said report, the prime minister has ordered immediate removal of the managing directors of the SSGC and the SNGPL.
Last month, the prime minister had ordered an inquiry into the dwindling supply of gas which not only forced industry closures across Punjab and Karachi, but even affected domestic consumers as residents in many parts faced outages.
Published in Daily Times, January 10th 2019.
