NAROWAL: Federal Minister for Energy Engr Khurram Dastgir Khan has said that all electricity-related problems of people are being solved across the country on priority basis.
Accompanied by Federal Minister for Planning, Development & Reforms Ahsan Iqbal, he was addressing the opening ceremony of the Construction Division Narowal, completed with Rs 170 million, here on Sunday. He said the inauguration of the division would not only provide employment to people but also help end load-shedding and improve the supply system. “We have added 200-megawatt electricity to the system through coal projects,” the minister added.
Khurram Dastgir said the journey of development, which remained stopped for four years of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government, had restarted and it would continue after formation of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government for the next five years.
The federal minister said that Pakistan was facing several challenges and difficulties and “we have to take the country forward” saying that the journey of service would continue now. He said former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s name was written on all major projects from Gwadar to Khunjarab. When the lion of the country, Nawaz Sharif would return to the country, development of Pakistan would start again, he added.
Imran playing with country’s interests
Meanwhile, Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Rana Tanveer Hussain said that Pakistan did not need any enemy in the presence of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, as he had been playing with the country’s interests continuously.
He was talking to the media after inaugurating Sui gas supply to Manjh Road Noorpura here on Sunday. He said Pakistan was on the verge of bankruptcy when the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) coalition government took over the country through a no-confidence move against Imran Khan.
The minister claimed that Imran Khan looted the national kitty ruthlessly and caused irreparable damage to the country, adding that the PTI chief broke all records of obtaining the foreign loans. Rana Tanveer said Imran Khan dubbed others as ‘dacoits and thieves’, but his crony Farah Gogi looted the national wealth with great impunity and shifted it abroad.
The minister said that Pakistanis posed confidence in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in 2013 when the country was facing terrorism and long durations of load-shedding. However, the PML-N overcame the menace of terrorism and power outages and put the country on the road to progress and prosperity within 4 years. The PML-N government always preferred public welfare programmes over its interests, he added.
