- PM asks Zardari to become part of grand dialogue
- Abbasi says govt never show any provincial bias
- ‘Balochistan to emerge as richest province soon’
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday said that Balochistan would emerge as the richest province of country due to improvement in law and order situation and revival of development and economic activities.
Talking to the newsmen after chairing meetings with the provincial leadership on the law and order situation as well as the development projects, he said they had discussed the ways to further eliminate the threat of terror from the province besides ensuring the execution of development projects.
During his day-long visit, the prime minister met with Governor Muhammad Khan Achakzai and Chief Minister Sanaullah Zahri and the lawmakers. During the meeting, he said in pursuance of Nawaz Sharif’s announcement, it has been decided that gas supply would be expanded to every district headquarters within this year which would cost Rs 15 billion.
He said work on the longstanding project of solarizing the tube-wells would be initiated this year that would be accomplished in three phases. For water storage, Prime Minister Abbasi said that all relevant schemes would be discussed with the Ministry of Water Resources to ensure provision of water storage facility to the province.
He told the newsmen that Kachi Canal Project would start functioning within a week or 10 days to irrigate around 70,000 acres of land in Balochistan. During the meeting, they also discussed the projects to be executed under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, he said.
The prime minister announced that the federal government’s social welfare schemes of health cards as well as the Benazir Income Support Program would be expanded across the province. To a question, Prime Minister Abbasi said that former president Asif Ali Zardari should become part of the grand dialogue on democracy.
He said that the political parties always maintain dialogue with all political forces in the country. He said that Zardari would be included in dialogue as dialogues were politics. “This is election year so it is expected all politicians would give more political statements,” he said.
In response to another query, the prime minister clarified that the government did not show any provincial bias while filling three seats in the Council of Common Interests. He explained that three ex-officio seats of minister of inter-provincial coordination, finance minister and industries minister were fulfilled among those the first belonged to South Punjab, second from Central Punjab and third from Sindh.
He reiterated that earlier, the provinces used to get Rs 1200 billion for development that had now been increased to Rs 1900 billion. The prime minister told media that after improvement of law and order situation, gas exploration activity had revived in the province. Abbasi said the PML-N never believe in a confrontation with any institution and the people would be the better judge in the next election.
PML- are a bunch of incorrigible liars, they lie with absolutely no sense of shame; remorse or conscience, people have seen confrontation at its best on their TV screens, lies, half truths, distortions of reality, chicanery, conspiracies, riddles, all expressed in profane and pathetic street urchin language. What else is public to expect; apart from a decent minority, the rest of PML-N are thieves, money launderers ans flagrant abusers of power no different to majority of PPP..
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