DI KHAN:
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Monday the ruling coalition
still had eight more months in the government and expressed his resolve that it would steer the country out of
its current difficulties despite a myriad of economic challenges.
Addressing a ceremony organized with regard to
the development projects for southern districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the prime minister fired a
broadside against his predecessor, Pakistan Terek-e-Insafe (PTI) chairman Imran Khan,
“for damaging the country’s relations” with friendly countries such as China.
The prime minister
stressed that general elections
damaged the country’s foreign relations and sold watches to bring bad name to the country.
“The coalition government has still eight months’ In the general elections, the public will decide whether
they vote for the man who sold precious watches, and is in the habit of levelling false allegations,
or for those who served the nation,” the prime minister said.
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At the ceremony, Shahbaz laid foundation stones of different uplift projects in the communication, roads, hydel and power infrastructure sectors
Amir Maqam
, Jamaat Sulema-e-Islam chief Maulana Failure Rehman and others.
Shahbaz expressed the resolve that despite a myriad of economic challenges,
He vowed to change the fate of the country.
The coalition government with the support of its partners will steer the country out of the challenges,” he said.
“To achieve
progress and prosperity, we will have to work hard with devotion,” he continued. “Nations always faced difficulties but the coalition government will put Pakistan on path to development through hard work,” he added.
“When I took the oath of office, I did not realize the extent of damage done to
the national economy because of the wrong policies of the PTI government,” Shahbaz told the ceremony.
“The country was close to bankruptcy, while the agreement with the IMF [International
.
“But the efforts of the coalition government and institutions and the prayers of the people and
the hard work and cooperation of the sympathizers of Pakistan, we saved the country from bankruptcy. There is no doubt that challenges are enormous.”
He regretted that the PTI government brought all the development projects initiated by
the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government to a grinding halt. He regretted that because of the faulty policies of PTI’s government, the friendly nat.
He also criticized the PTI-led government in
the province, saying that the provincial government always talked about introducing an efficient system,
but in fact the people had witnessed the crumbling of that system.
Terrorism
The prime minister expressed
concerns over the rise of terrorists’ incidents in K-P. He lauded the sacrifices and successful operation launched by the Army’s
Special Service Group (SSG) and the other law-enforcement agencies to eliminate terrorists,
who had seized the Counter-Terrorism Centre in Banu last week.
“The security personnel, who laid down their lives fo
r the He also expressed his grief and sorrow over loss of security personnel in Baluchistan. He said that he would soon be chairing a meeting to review the situation.
Flood situation
The prime minister said that Pakistan suffered a whopping loss of about $30
ossia and Ukraine conflict and exorbitant price of gas and oil in the international market.