Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Thursday has instructed to reshuffle the board of directors at Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) and Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGCL) over the recent gas crisis in the country.

According to sources, the PM had directed authorities to take strict action against the gas suppliers as the CNG crisis entered its fifth-day today.

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Several residential and industrial areas across the city of Karachi reported disruption in the gas supply.

However, the federal government after ordering a fact-finding committee to launch an inquiry against the managing directors of both SNGPL and SSGCL has now announced to reshuffle companies’ board of directors over their poor performance.

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The fact-finding committee is comprised of four members who will probe the managing directors and present a report on the issue. The committee is headed by Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority chairperson Uzma Adil Khan, and comprises Qazi Saleem Siddiqui, Shahid Yousaf and Imran Ahmed.

On Wednesday, the Ministry of Energy’s Petroleum Division issued a notification which stated, “negligence in reporting of facts to the ministry or incompetence to deal with operational issues, withholding of information from the government and overall systematic governance failure SNGPL and SSGCL.”