PML-N has triggered an alert on becoming unsafe important seaports and trade routes passing through Gilgit-Baltistan, Balochistan and Karachi with bad law and order situation in these regions due to inefficiency and incompetence of Zardari government.
PML-N newly-appointed media coordinator, Muhammad Mehdi, said that Gilgit, Balochistan and Karachi were up in flames with mounting incidents of target-killing but it was a matter of great concern that PPP-led coalition government was not addressing the issue.
“Gilgit-Baltistan is a highly sensitive region as it is located in close proximity with China, India and Central Asia where Frontier Constabulary, Gilgit Scouts and intelligence agencies have their presence besides police and occasional watch by Pakistan Army. It is also a very important trade route. The same adverse situation is spreading in Karachi and Balochistan. 40 percent of the world’s oil makes its way through Gawadar port,” he added. He feared foreign powers hands in spreading instability and bashed the government for not exposing them and restoring peace in the conflicting areas.
Mehdi said that federal government had made its habit to flout SC orders, deny transparent accountability and blow the lid of corruption with impunity.
Regarding Laptop scheme, he dispelled the corruption in the laptop scheme, saying each laptop costing Rs 37,000 with a lot of incentives was the cheapest in the world
On query, he said that education was the top priority of the Punjab government and it was expected that around 7.3 million dropout children would be re-enrolled to improve literacy rate in the province.
When the point was raised on Punjab government’s competence to generate power, he said that Punjab got operational eligibility to do so in July 2011 and since then it had started a lot of power generation projects—government-funded and private-based in provinces. These included 10 hydel projects, 3 coal projects, a solar project, bio gas project and 250 sites at canal. “We also planned to start power generation projects with sugarcane waste but the federal government denied sovereign guarantee,” he added.
He made it clear that no one should live in illusions and if the apex court gave any decision on the on-going different cases against the government in the near future, PML-N’s full support would be with the court.
Mehdi said that Pakistan was the country of 170 millions people and the ruling class could not be a sole owner of this country. “It is an unfortunate condition since the present regime is steering the country towards chaos without an ounce of realization of the dire consequences,” he said adding that the allies of the ruling party were also equally responsible for this deteriorating situation.