ISLAMABAD, April 22 -- The centre-province ties have further soured in the wake of Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) decisions against which the former have protested. The provinces allege that the Centre is intruding in their constitutional jurisdiction.

Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have recorded their protests, asking Prime Minister Imran Khan to reverse the CCoE decisions harmfully affecting development of renewable energy sources and over $3 billion investments.

The protest is based on the CCoE decisions conveyed to the provinces on March 29 to discontinue with the Renewable Energy Policy of 2006 and its replacement with the yet-to-be approved RE Policy 2019.

"The CCoE has taken arbitrary policy decisions in violation of Article 154...