Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has declared that the national economy has been put on the fast track, and vowed to beat India in development speed, reported 24NewsHD TV channel
Addressing a massive PML-N rally in Dera Ghani Khan on Saturday, PM Shehbaz Sharif said “They will never turn away from the people of South Punjab as I have a heart-to-heart connection with them.”
Shehbaz Sharif announced to build a cancer hospital in DG Khan. “Nawaz Sharif cancer hospital is being constructed in Lahore and another cancer hospital will be built in DG Khan,” he added.
Shehbaz Sharif said the federal government was committed to uniform progress and prosperity of all areas with uplift of backward areas like South Punjab by spreading a vast network of development projects.
He told the huge crowd that when they came to power, the inflation had reached over 40 percent, but his leader Nawaz Sharif decided to sacrifice politics for the sake of the country.
With hard work and pro-development policies of the incumbent government, the inflation was capped below 2.4 percent while the interest rate had been reduced to 12 percent benefitting the investors, business people and farmers, he added.
Expressing his views in local Saraiki dialect, the prime minister said Nawaz Sharif and he had a strong relation with this region. During the year 2010, when the floodwater and destruction was witnessed everywhere in these areas, he as a servant of the area, worked day and night to alleviate sufferings of the masses. “I have come to convey that Nawaz Sharif and Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz are working day and night for the uplift of entire province, particularly for the South Punjab,” he added.
Shehbaz said during his previous tenures he had worked for the establishment of Danish schools, hospitals, provision of free medicines and livestock, award of scholarships, besides allocating extra quota for the youth of the area in different sectors.
He said the Punjab chief minister was spreading a network of hospitals and roads in the province, inaugurated facility of Kissan cards, different health and education centers, besides working for the establishment of Nawaz Sharif cancer hospital in Lahore.
The prime minister also announced construction of a cancer hospital in DG Khan and establishment of university in Rajanpur.
The prime minister said that an era of progress and prosperity had dawned upon the area in which the youth would get jobs opportunities.
Shehbaz also reiterated that seeking foreign loans was no solution to their economic issues and the country’s future. Without loans, they would change fate of the country by striving day and night and shedding sweat and blood, he said, adding he did not believe in hollow slogans, and promised to ensure progress and prosperity of the backward areas. He maintained that the country’s economy had stabilized.
The prime minister also praised all the leaders of the region for working hard for the uplift of their respective areas and mentioned minister for power who was working hard to provide relief over power tariff by bringing reforms.
Shehbaz further said for progress and development, peace was requisite.
The enemies of Pakistan including Khwarij were carrying out terrorist activities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces and the security forces were giving sacrifices in the fight against terrorism, he said and urged the people to remember these sacrifices. “Without elimination of terrorism, the country cannot move on the path of progress,” he opined and without naming a political party, said mounting attacks on Islamabd in the past had caused immense losses as one-day strike caused loss of billions the national kitty.
Shehbaz also expressed the resolve that together, they would defeat enemies of Pakistan.