State Minister for Water and Power Talks To DNA & Centreline

By Waheed Hussain
Provision of affordable energy on regular basis was the fundamental priority of the present government. Energy was the engine of economic growth, that’s why PML (N) presented a comprehensive and achievable energy policy within the first two months in power. The government took serious measures and the result was that there was tremendous reduction in the electricity load-shedding throughout the country. These views were expressed by the Minister of State for Water and Power Chudhary Abid Sher Ali in an exclusive interview with the Centreline and Diplomatic News Agency. Here are excerpts from his interview.

By Waheed Hussain

On Pakistan Defence Day the pride of Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai has received the International Children’s Peace Prize trophy from Yemeni Civil Rights activist at the Ridderzaal, Hague. Few days back she was also honored to inaugurate the world’s best futuristic-state of -the art library in Birmingham. Since the day Malala was attacked by the terrorists in her local district Swat, the brave girl, who struggled for the girls’ education in the Valley, became known to world outside Pakistan. The reason of attack, as many of us know was, that, the young Malalal stood for the girls’ right to education in the most difficult times and circumstances, when terrorists were regularly destroying girls’ schools. They were threatening parents, teachers and students of dire consequences, if they dared to pursue modern education in the entire beautiful Swat Valley. During her address at the library inauguration Malala once again unveiled her philosophy and ideology saying “books were the weapons to defeat terrorism.” Naturally, she was absolutely right as books were the most powerful tool than any of the sophisticated modern weapon on the face of this earth. As they (books) carry knowledge and information of visible and invisible world, objects, ideas, believes, philosophies, concepts and theories.