Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has said that the Lahore Orange Line Metro Train is one of the most extraordinary projects in the history of the country and its completion will result in availability of reliable transport facilities of international standard to the citizens. He said that the elements criticizing this project are in fact opposing the provision of facilities to the masses adding that those criticizing welfare projects were enemies of development.
He said that criticism against metro bus system had ended with the success of the project and the same will happen after the completion of the Orange Line Metro Train project. He said that those opposing public welfare projects are not concerned with the progress of the country and prosperity of the masses. He said that the government would continue to serve the public under the leadership of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
The chief minister expressed these views while talking to a delegation of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), here today. The chief minister said that funds will continue to be utilized on the provision of necessary facilities to the citizens. He said that metro bus system and Lahore Orange Line Metro Train projects are splendid example of utilization of national resources on the people.
Shehbaz Sharif said that modern means of travel are a basic necessity and communication system is being improved on priority basis in the province. He said that the government was committed to the provision of modern, safe, and economical transport facilities to the masses adding that the country plunged in a quagmire of problems during the dictatorial eras. He said that no development project was completed in the period of dictatorship and the former rulers made graveyards of corruption in the name of development projects which however, PML-N government turned into monuments to progress. He said energy projects as well as other mega projects were being completed expeditiously under the leadership of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The chief minister hoped that poverty, ignorance and unemployment will be eliminated from the country and it will be made an Islamic welfare state in true sense.