RAHIM YAR KHAN: Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shehbaz Sharif advised Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairperson Imran Khan to make amends with former prime minister Nawaz Sharif seeing as how he [Imran] thinks of Shehbaz as a “dangerous man”.
“Imran Khan should make amends with Nawaz,” the Punjab CM said while addressing an event in Khawaja Fareed University. “The dangerous man will continue working for the benefit of people,” he remarked.
“I am a dangerous man I will continue building hospitals, roads, and universities. I am a dangerous man I will make Pakistan great again,” he stressed.
Taking a dig at those demanding freedom for people of South Punjab, he said, “ People who are chanting slogans in favour of South Punjab are the ones who turned it into a desert during their tenures.”
The chief minister said the PML-N government had taken revolutionary steps for the development of south Punjab within the past 10 years and 36% of resources had been provided for 31 % population of the province while for the past two years 45% funds had been provided for the development of the area.
He said the credit for CPEC went to Nawaz Sharif and those who did not work looted national resources had now joined hands. “In the upcoming general elections, the people should vote for those who spent national resources on the development of the people,” he said.
Shehbaz also remarked that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government worked tremendously for power generation in the country. “We completed projects worth billions for power generation in the country,” he added.
“In 2013, there was no power in the country. If the light went, it wouldn’t come. Electricity still goes but it comes back unlike before.”
Shehbaz also shared that 12 more universities will be built in Punjab.
Earlier, Shehbaz formally inaugurated the academic block of the Khawaja Fareed Engineering and Information Technology University in Rahim Yar Khan. He visited various departments of the varsity and inspected its libraries and labs.
Speaking to the students, the chief minister said the state-of-the-art university was a gift for the people of south Punjab and the PML-N government had established it to ensure a bright future of the region’s youth.
“Khawaja Fareed Engineering and Information Technology University is not a favour to south Punjab, but it is their right,” he said and added that he was pleased to see that both male and female students of Daanish Schools were seeking education at the varsity.
“Other departments besides engineering have also been set up at this university and students from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well as Balochistan are also studying here,” said the chief minister. “You are the guarantee of the bright future of Pakistan and you will make the country proud. It’s our job to provide the best resources and we will continue doing this.”
Speaking to faculty members, Shehbaz said that highly qualified staff was present in the university and 70 of them were PhDs. The chief minister also directed the provincial minister for higher education and higher education secretary to install air conditioners in the auditorium and laboratories of the university.
