- Defence minister says Pakistan monitoring borders, to protect its territorial boundaries
Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Saturday stressed the need to promote mutual cooperation between Pakistan and Afghanistan for eliminating terrorism and establishing durable peace as well.
Talking to journalists, he said that Pakistan wanted to have good relations with Afghanistan and would continue its sincere efforts for better relations with it. Pakistan had again offered its full cooperation to the Afghan government to eliminate terrorism besides establishing durable peace across the borders, he said.
He said that Pakistan was deeply monitoring its borders situation and ready to protect its territorial boundaries as well, adding that Pakistan would respond instantly and effectively in a befitting way to the enemy on border violations. He said that Pakistan was successfully eliminating terrorism besides playing front line role for establishing durable global peace.
The minister said that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project would open new vistas of socio-economic and human development in the Pakistan. By the end of December this year, 6,400 megawatts would be added to the national grid, he said, adding that there was no unscheduled loadshedding anywhere in the country.
He said the industrial sector had been made free from electricity loadshedding and there was zero loadshedding in the industrial sector.
The minister said there would be surplus electricity in the country till December 2017 and the government was committed to end the inherited loadshedding before the next general elections in the country.
He said that now only those areas were facing power outages where pilferage was underway. Earlier, addressing the participants of an oath taking ceremony of the Sialkot Tax Bar Association, he stressed the need of early removal of flaws from the tax collection system besides making direly needed and the most-awaited practical steps in this regard.
