MULTAN: Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday said that the government’s critics have set up factories of allegations against them, noting that their opponents were trying to harm the country’s future.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the Multan Metro Bus Project, the CM said that the standard of the Multan metro bus was better and more advanced than the projects functioning in Lahore, Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
The CM added that the metro bus would move in the congested areas of Multan, with the people whose lands, market and properties came in the metro bus route given hefty compensation. “We have spent our Rs45 billion amount on the mega project,” he said.
The minister also said, “All the nations that reach their destinations on time ultimately move towards the path of development and prosperity, hence we are developing chains of roads, motorwaysand Pakistan is moving on the route of progress and economic prosperity.”
The CM pointed out that the people who were criticising and speaking against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government for building motorways were themselves travelling on the chains of national highways and motorway roads.
“We have not emptied the pockets of people but we have filled their pockets,” he added. “We have invested on public and public welfare projects like, motorways, metro buses and power plants,” claimed Shahbaz.
“With the prayers of over 200 million people we have put the country on path of prosperity and economic progression,” he added.
Shahbaz mentioned that several mega projects had been completed during the tenure of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, adding that several mega economic and development projects had been laid by the PML (N).
Alluding to the oppositionthe CM said that the people who staged sit-inslacked concern for the development and prosperity of the public. The completion of mega development projects would ultimately defeat and bury bad and poor politics, he added.
He further said that the ‘dharnas’ had delayed the completion of several development projects.
“These dharna people want to ruin Pakistan’s destiny,” he lamented, adding that Pakistan remained on course to achieve progress and the enemies’ plots had failed.
He underscored that all the four provinces would have to move forward in unison, noting that they would have to “eat one bread together”.
Shahbaz also vowed that no could prove the corruption of even a single penny against the prime minister.
“On one hand country is making progress and on the other hand the ill-gotten money stashed in Swiss banks is calling us take me and spend me in Pakistan” the minister remarked.
The CM also noted that those who had gotten loans written off were the ones calling for accountability.
