Staff Reporter
RAWALPINDI: Restaurants owners and traders of twin cities have rejected ‘forced’ conversion of their natural gas connections to re-gasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG) and threatened to stage a protest for not withdrawing the notification of cancelling the Tariff Agreement by next week. Addressing a press conference in National Press Club of Islamabad, local eateries as well as traders rejected the decision of the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) of cancelling the Tariff Agreement of 1962 according to which the traders and restaurants of Islamabad and Rawalpindi were being supplied the natural gas. As per the new arrangement, some 2,700 commercial connections are being converted to RLNG. The SNGPL warned disconnection of supply in case the commercial consumer would not give consent to RLNG.
