Miftah Ismail vs Hammad Azhar: PTI, PML-N both claim victory after fiery debate

 KARACHI: Social media all over again turned into a battleground as passionate PTI and PML-N ministers took to Twitter to say victory as a fiery debate between Miftah Ismail and Hammad Azhar, respectively, passed off on Geo News Monday night time. 

Ismail and Azhar each appeared on Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath to speak on Pakistan's economic scenario and energy shortages. As anticipated, at the same time as Ismail claimed Pakistan become on a trajectory of financial boom at some point of the PML-N's regime, Azhar disagreed as each traded barbs and threw information at one another. 

Speaking at the current gasoline crisis, the power minister stated it had not taken place because of dry docking of Engro LNG terminal, including that the crisis could have elevated had the dearth had happened in winters. 

He said the LNG terminals were now not utilised by the PML-N government. In response, Ismail accused the PTI authorities of no longer being competent enough to foresee the fuel disaster, adding that the incumbent government become buying fuel at a higher price than its predecessor. 

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The debate become a heated alternate when Ismail accused the PTI of being inconsistent in its complaint of the PML-N, pronouncing that it accused the PML-N regime of putting in place too many energy plant life during winters and in summer, said the exact opposite: that it had installation too less energy flowers. 

Azhar rejected the allegations, pronouncing that the PTI government became buying gasoline from overseas at a 20% decrease price. He lashed out on the preceding government, announcing Pakistan had to update and sign any other Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with Russia over the fuel pipeline project because "it lacked shape" and each countries were now not aware as to how the project might keep on. 

Taking a jibe at Ismail, Azhar said if he was to go into the information of the PML-N's LNG transactions, "another NAB case will be filed towards Shahid Khaqan Abbasi". 

When the debate ended, with neither facet willing to concede, Twitter have become a battleground because the PTI and PML-N leading figures took pictures at each other. 

PML-N's Marriyum Aurangzeb gave Ismail a pat at the lower back for exposing PTI's "incompetence, lies and corruption" within the power region. 

The PTI responded with the aid of putting up a screengrab from the show, in which Ismail can be seen keeping his head in exasperation as Azhar responds to his grievance. 

The PTI stated at the same time as it was satisfied Ismail were replied to with statistics and figures, it was afraid no PML-N leader would now debate a central authority consultant on TV. 

Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry additionally said Ismail had all over again been confirmed "a large failure in respectable debate".

The PTI and the PML-N have, continuously over the last couple of years, blamed each different for Pakistan's power sector woes. With the current fuel scarcity throughout the usa, the 2 parties have over again started pointing arms at each different.