Lahore – Our Goof Correspondent: In an impressive new plan revealed by the Punjab education minister on Saturday, the province is going to construct 12 new national highways in an effort to increase the literacy rate of the province.
“This new initiative is going to significantly help the cause of education in the province,” said Rana Mashood, Punjab education minister. “These highways are going to be yet another example of serious-minded approach of the PML-N government.”
When asked how, by any stretch, roads were related to education, the minister rebuked the concerned reporter and called him a member of the “anti-development lobby in the local media”.
The ambitious initiative follows the plan by the province’s health ministry to improve infant mortality statistics in south Punjab by making three national highways.
The party’s efforts are not limited to the provincial level. The ministry of finance just made a major effort in improving Pakistan’s relationship with the BRIC group of countries by upgrading the Rawat-Islamabad road to a signal-free highway.
“If all you have is a hammer,” said Dr Saleem Bangash at the LUMS School of Policy, “then all problems will start looking like nails.”