Monday, 2 June 2014

No protest, sit-in can impede journey to progress: Shahbaz



 












LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that no sit-in or protest against the process of national development can succeed.
According to a handout issued on Sunday, he was talking to a representative delegation of journalists, columnists and intellectuals of Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan. The delegation congratulated him on the speedy measures for resolving the energy crisis and development projects in the Punjab.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that the opposition parties should wait for their turn and not become impatient to oust the government.He said that they were burning the midnight oil with good intentions to take the country out of the crisis and, therefore the opposition parties should wait and promote national solidarity with due regard to the national issues.

During the meetings with Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and different delegations on Sunday, the prime minister said when the country would progress and prosper, only then politics would prevail, as future of the country was with democracy.

He said that the first year of this government was going to be completed on June 6, and during this one year, the initial strategy to lead the country on the right track had been evolved, whose positive effects would become clear soon.

The premier further said that their agenda was in line with prosperity of the country. He stated that those who were holding back the progress would end up in dismay. Talking to the guests, the CM said the projects evolved during the tenure of those who were criticising the welfare programmes of the government unjustifiably were not monuments of development but graveyards of corruption. He said the present government was moving in the right direction and the people knew very well who was serving them and who was indulging only in protest politics.

He said had these projects been completed three years ago, Pakistan would not have to face an economic loss of Rs165 billion nor the poor nation had to spend an additional amount of Rs30,000 billion due to the delay in the projects. He said the PML-N government was serving the masses with commitment and sincerity.He said Allah Almighty had given the present leadership an opportunity to serve the nation and it would spare no effort to give a strong and brighter Pakistan to the coming generation.

The chief minister said the completion of the Nandipur Power Project in a record period of seven months was the result of the best team work. He said solid economic policies of the government were yielding positive results and national economy was improving. He said the foreign exchange reserves had increased beyond 13 billion dollars while the Pakistani currency had also stabilised against the dollar; the government was making efforts for overcoming the energy crisis and power projects were being launched expeditiously in the country. He said the government had allocated Rs30 billion for the Dasu Dam and Diamer Bhasha Dam while a sum of Rs55 billion had been allocated for the Karachi-Lahore Motorway and this mega project was being started from Karachi.

He said the Punjab government had voluntarily given Rs11 billion from its annual share to other provinces for achieving a consensus on the NFC Award and as such it had given Rs44 billion to other provinces during the last four years.The delegation members said the chief minister was a revolutionary leader and taking historic measures for the public welfare. They paid tributes to the chief minister for the projects and wished other provinces to have chief ministers like Shahbaz Sharif.

No comments:

Post a Comment