Jan 02 , 2016
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Pakhtunkhwa demands equal share
Khattak says big brother eats up everything, not giving due share to othersPESHAWAR – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak on Saturday said that big brother eats up everything and does not give anything to others.
“Elder brother will have to mend his ways and change his philosophy, as centre eats up everything and provinces are ignored,” he said while addressing a convention on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) which involves energy and infrastructure projects linking the neighbours economies and creating an economic corridor between Pakistan’s Gwadar port and China‘s Xinjiang region.
The corridor comprises a network of roads, railways and pipelines. Chief Minister Khattak urged the federal government that equal share for all provinces must be assured as the Pakhtunkhwa was getting only 2 percent out of 13 percent rightful. He said that the PML-N government just wants to build a road and not the corridor with all facilities.
“If just a road is what we get in CPEC, they can do it for themselves, we won’t let it pass here,” he said. The chief minister said that his government supports western route as it is 600km shorter and there were underdeveloped areas in that region.
“We will also support Balochistan as the under developed areas are ignored along the route and just a standard road built,” he said. The chief minister accused the centre of stealing 600 megawatts of electricity out of their rightful share on daily basis.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk