Fawad congratulates Ali Mandviwalla, new chairman PAA

ISLAMABAD, Sep 30 (APP):Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Sunday congratulated Ali Mandviwalla on his election as Chairman Pakistan Advertising Association (PAA).
In a statement, the minister said that election of Ali Mandviwalla was manifestation of the trust of the office bearers of PAA in his leadership. The minister said that the government realised the importance of advertising and was desirous of its betterment and growth on professional lines.
He said that progress of the advertising sector was equal to progress of entire industrial sector. Fawad assured that discrimination done in his sector in the past will be ended now.
He expressed the hope that the new president PAA would come up to the expectations of the office bearers of
the association and play active role in promotion of advertising.

The information minister said it was an irony that the poor had no money to buy medicines while the ruling elites were leading a royal lifestyle living in luxurious houses and spending millions from the taxpayers’ money. However, the PTI government had reduced the expenditure incurred on the upkeep of Prime Minister House to a few million rupees from Rs 1 billion, he added.
He said Rs 1 billion was spent by the previous government on the purchase of 33 vehicles to escort diplomats for the SAARC conference, which was never held and further Rs 350 million was spent on their maintenance, which had gone waste.
The auction of buffaloes kept at the Prime Minister’s House indicated the austerity measures being adopted by the government, he added.
He said the previous government of Nawaz Sharif had accumulated foreign loans, which were wasted by spending on the Orange Line Train and Metro Bus projects, while the people yearned for health facilities. The foreign debts had crossed Rs 28 trillion during the Nawaz Sharif regime, which were Rs 6 trillion during the Pervez Musharraf government.
“Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was so unmindful of the country’s economic degradation and fond of extravagance that he used to announce construction of airports and motorways wherever he addressed public gatherings,” the minister said.
About giving ownership to the common man, he said some 25,000 people had visited the Punjab’s Governor House since it was opened for public by the PTI government on the directives of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Fawad said the judiciary and the armed forces stood by the government. No government could achieve the desired results if the state institutions were not on one page, he added.
The minister said health, education, clean water and a corruption-free society were the top most priorities of the PTI government. The prime minister had raised voice against the menace of corruption, which had become a norm in the country and needed to be dealt with an iron hand.
He said it was also Prime Minister Imran Khan, who had launched the initiative for a ‘green Pakistan’.