LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz fears multiple power breakdown in the country in the run-up to the general election alleging that some unforeseen hands are bent upon diluting the goodwill the party has earned among voters by drastically reducing loadshedding duration.

“You’ll see dozens of incidents of unwarranted large-scale power breakdown in the next couple of months to eclipse our work for controlling the energy crisis because some forces are adamant on thinning out the popularity we have thus gained,” Punjab Health Minister Khwaja Imran Nazeer said in reference to the second power shutdown in Lahore during the ongoing month.

Talking to Dawn here on Tuesday, he also repeated Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan’s allegation that PML-N MPs were receiving phone calls wherein some “unknown” people were asking them to quit the party and join its rivals or at least contest as independents in the upcoming elections.

“There is not a single PML-N ticket-holder in the Jhang, Chiniot, Toba Tek Singh districts, which I’m looking after for award of tickets for next polls, who has not received such a call,” he claimed.

Published in Dawn, May 23rd, 2018