Talking about the Hangu and Karak sections of the pipeline, Babar said, “These are gas-producing areas and the people living there are stealing gas since they consider this their right.”
He was responding to a question about why the PTI-led provincial government had not helped the federal government and the SNGPL in the past in stopping massive gas theft.
“However, we are trying to convince these people not to steal gas and come under the legal gas supply network of the company,” Babar told a press conference on Friday.
He claimed that the SNGPL’s technical and commercial losses, called unaccounted for gas (UFG), had been reduced, particularly in the context of industrial consumers.
Babar said five international firms had applied for setting up liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in Karachi and Balochistan.