Nov 21 , 2015
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PM flays policies of former rulers
Nawaz says former rulers’s gifted malaise of loadshedding, deprivation, terrorism to country
APPKHANEWAL - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said that the former rulers’s agenda based upon retrogressive policies only gifted the country with malaise of loadshedding, deprivation and terrorism.
Whereas, under the Pakistan Muslim League-N government, the country always witnessed pro-development policies with an unending string of uplift projects, injecting vigour in the economy and road infrastructure, thus ensuring prosperity which encompassed all regions of Pakistan, he said. He was speaking to a gathering after performing inauguration of 56 kms four-lane Khanewal-Multan Motorway Section (M4).
The total cost of the project was Rs 12.9 billion out of which an amount of Rs 900 was saved in its execution. The M4 section consisted of 44 underpasses, 4 interchanges, 17 bridges and 28 subways. This section is an extension of Lahore-Karachi Motorway which would facilitate traffic from Sindh, Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan and Punjab. It would also serve as a major bypass road for Multan city and help ease heavy vehicular traffic movement in the city.
The prime minister expressed his confidence that with the completion of mega projects under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor along with vital hydro, coal, LNG, solar projects and agriculture schemes, Pakistan would enter the 21st century as a developed country. He regretted the policies of previous rulers which adversely affected the lives of the countrymen and took huge toll of the country’s economy.
“Instead of completing the Motorway projects after dislodging our government in 1999, they gifted the industrial, domestic and agriculture sectors with ever-pinching crisis of power outages,” he said and questioned where was the seven-point agenda of such rulers!
Referring to scourge of terrorism, he said precious lives of policemen, army-men, civil administration people and common men had been lost. “The matters were taken to the worst in the last one decade by the former regimes and the country felt the pangs of untold miseries,” he said.
The prime minister told the nation to hold those elements accountable. He said that accountability had already been started as reflected in the recently held local government elections and the last general elections.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk