June 11, 2015
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Gwadar to be made model port, load shedding to end in three years: PM
Nawaz says Rs 30 billion allocated for Western route of CPEC
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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that Motorways are being built in Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan and Rs 30 billion have been allocated in next year’s PSDP for the western route under China, Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
In his budget speech replying to points raised by PPP leader Nawab Ali Wassan in the National Assembly on Thursday, the prime minister said that the work on Hyderabad-Karachi section of Lahore-Karachi Motorway has begun. He assured that work on Hyderabad-Sukkur section which was a missing link in the Motorway was also being planned.
In KP, the work on Hazara Motorway is going on rapidly. He said that the PML-N government was working on these projects as a national duty and expressed the confidence that these projects will be completed during the next three years. He reminded the Coastal Highway from Gwadar to Karachi was also constructed by the PML-N government.
Nawaz said that a tunnel was being built at a cost of Rs 26 billion at Attabad in Gilgit Baltistan as the road had come under water due to a massive landslide. He said that the government wanted to make Gwadar model port like in the Gulf which should be a gift not only for the people but for the entire region.
The prime minister said that we should sit together and frame new laws to give a special status of free port to Gwadar including a new administrative system there. On energy, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed the confidence that load-shedding would end in next three years. He said that work on different energy projects was going on rapidly.
Nawaz said that these projects included two plants of 330 MW each in Thar based on coal. He said that Thar Coal mine would also developed and its coal will be used in these projects. He said two projects of 1320 MW will be completed at Port Qasim and Hub.
The prime minister said eighteen hours load-shedding was not being carried out in any parts of Pakistan as was pointed out by opposition member Nawab Ali Wassan. However in a lighter vein, conceded that it could be possible where people were not paying their electricity dues. Reciprocating to the remarks by the prime minister, Opposition Leader Syed Khursheed Shah emphasised the need for continuity in policies to take Pakistan forward on the path of development.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk