KARACHI: The provincial cabinet of Sindh has approved the allotment of land for the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) to lay a gas pipeline in Malir, Jamshoro and Thatta districts of the province. The cabinet met on Wednesday with Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in the chair. Turning down a proposal for use of re-gasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG) in the province, the meeting in a consensus decision said that Sindh should be given its rightful share of the natural gas of its gas fields and not the RLNG as being recommended. Meanwhile, in the wake recent rains, the cabinet approved to declare 20 districts in the province as “calamity-hit”. Subsequently, PPP legislators on Tuesday protested outside the SSGC’s office in and alleged that the Centre is depriving Sindh of its rightful share of natural gas.

Source: Pakistan Today September 30, 2020 17:42 UTC