The Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif, while addressing a big public meeting after laying the foundation stones of the Institute of Urology, Sixth Road Chowk Flyover on Murree Road and inaugurating the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology on Tuesday said that the country would get rid from “Ali Baba and the forty thieves” in the next general elections.
Furthermore, he said that the Institute of Cardiology would be completed in Rawalpindi at a cost of three billion rupees while Sixth Road Flyover on Murree Road would be constructed at a cost of Rs. 1.10 billion. Similarly, he said the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology had been completed at a cost of about three billion rupees where besides 265 beds, most modern facilities of cardiac treatment would be available. Moreover, he said that besides people of Rawalpindi, those of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KPK) and Gilgit Baltistan (GB) would also benefit from these facilities. He said that in addition to mega projects, a number of other development schemes including construction of roads and schools had been executed in Rawalpindi at a cost of millions of rupees. He said that the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology would be fully functional before the end of the current year and maximum resources would be provided for this purpose.