LAHORE, Feb 27 (APP):Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday visited Pattoki, Tehsil of Kasur District, and inaugurated different projects besides laying the foundation stones of many new schemes.
He laid foundation stone of overhead bridge project at Hala Road Bypass in Pattoki for interconnecting the localities residing on both sides. This projects would be completed in July this year with a cost of Rs 350 million. He inaugurated Government College Allahabad which had been constructed with the cost of Rs 100 million.
On the occasion, the THQ Hospital Kot Radha Kishan, completing with the cost of Rs 130 million, was also inaugurated by the Chief Minister.
Addressing a large public gathering in Pattoki, Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the PML-N government had spent billion of rupees on the development of Kasur District and different health, education and infrastructure projects had been completed with resources amounting to billions of rupees. He announced construction of Kanganpur-Pattoki dual carriageway, new road from Pattoki to Hala and establishment of hospital in
Phoolnagar.
He also announced establishment of university in Kasur, ten speedo buses for Pattoki and new wonderful public parks in Pattoki and Chunian.
Shehbaz Sharif said that he visited Pattoki when Zardari imposed governor rule in Punjab and a mammoth ocean of the people got it ended. “Today, an ocean of the people is witness to the fact that PML-N will rule the whole country in 2018,” he added.
He said that Muhammad Nawaz Sharif had got him elected as acting president of the PML-N. Nawaz Sharif had been deprived of the party presidency but his love could not be removed from the hearts of the people as he lived in public hearts and in fact, Nawaz Sharif symbolized Pakistan, the Chief Minister said and added, “Nawaz Sharif is a statesman and a great son of our politics. Today, resolution has been passed in central executive committee meeting to elevate Muhammad Nawaz Sharif as a lifelong party Quaid. He will always be party Quaid and we shall progress and move further jointly under his leadership.”
He said that Orange Line Metro Train had been run on trial basis and that project would start soon to provide honorable traveling facilities to the people. He said that a delay of 22 months had occurred in this project due to Imran Niazi who spoke lies day and night. He said that people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa trusted Imran Niazi and brought him to power four and a half years ago but he had economically ruined the province. Niazi Sahib, wasted precious time of the nation through sit-in and lockdown and promoted a culture of name-calling, he said and added, “Khan Sahib boosted of producing 74 megawatt electricity in KPK. I put a question to him that if he produced that electricity in space because it’s non-existing on earth.”
Shehbaz Sharif said, the same Khan Sahib claimed that he would develop hospitals and educational institutions instead of wasting resources on metro bus in Peshawar, adding that he (Imran Khan) had not developed hospitals nor any educational institutions and after a lapse of four and a half years, the whole Peshawar city had been dug out recklessly when they thought of starting metro bus there.
The Chief Minister said that he filed a defamation case of ten billion rupees against Imran Khan and then sent a notice of 27 billion rupees but this Khan Sahib was avoiding the court. Yesterday, he had appeared along with a bundle of allegations about Multan Metro Bus and a person namely Subhan Khan, the CM said and added, “I request the Chief Justices of High Court and Supreme Court of Pakistan to constitute full bench for investigating the matter. If I am proved wrong then I shall beg pardon from the nation and leave the politics arena for once and for all. If Khan Sahib is proved wrong about his allegations then he should set the politics aside and sit in some room to learn speaking the truth.” He said that Khan Sahib spoke lies abundantly that he should form a party of liars because he had no relation with Tehreek-e-Insaaf. Khan Sahib, the nation would not allow your falsehood to succeed, Shehbaz Sharif added.
The Punjab Chief Minister said, on the other side, there was Zardari Sahib whose government had ruined Karachi City, adding that once Karachi was a beautiful metropolis which was called a city of lights. “Now, filth and garbage is everywhere and rundown buses are plying on the roads. This is a pitiable situation in Karachi,” he said and added that if the people succeeded the PML-N in 2018 elections, then Peshawar and Karachi would be
developed as modern cities as like Lahore.
The Chief Minister said that Khan Sahib made false claim of producing electricity but the PML-N government made investments to the tune of billions of rupees in energy projects and loadshedding was about to an end. He said that farmers were getting fertilizers at half the price for the last three years while small farmers were getting interest-free loans to the tune of billions of rupees. He said the PEEF had distributed Rs 15 billion as stipends among needy students during the last nine years and 3.5
lakh students were benefitting from this program.
Similarly, he said, thousands of kilometers long roads had been constructed in rural areas and hospitals and educational institutions had been set up along with launching a mega project of clean drinking water.
He said, “Elections will be held after four months and if we are again given an opportunity of public service then I promise that work will be soon started on Kasur University project. Along with it, the development projects announced today will also be accelerated for their timely completion.”
He said that CT scan machine had been installed in Kasur Hospital to provide round the clock service, adding that corrupt system had been ended now in which patients were forced to manage their CT scan privately. He said, “People are getting quality medicines in government hospitals and the medicines used by the son of the Prime Minister are given to the son of a poor in hospitals.
He said that four acre piece of land had been donated by the political family of Kasur for construction of hospital and if success was achieved in the next elections then the hospital project would be completed in Phoolnagar as soon as possible.
He said that 2018 elections was the voting for development and prosperity and added the PML-N had selflessly served the masses. “We shall eliminate poverty and unemployment to make this country a Pakistan of Iqbal and Jinnah, he added.
Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Iqbal, MNAs, MPAs and a large number of people were also present on the occasion.