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Musharraf, Zardari Did Not Start Any Power Projects In Their Tenure: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
Anees Ahmed (@Aneesah05582539) Published May 26, 2018 | 06:45 PM
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday criticised former presidents General (retd) Pervez Musharraf and Asif Ali Zardari over lack of development work in the country during their tenures.
Shujabaad, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 26th May, 2018) : Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday criticised former presidents General (retd) Pervez Musharraf and Asif Ali Zardari over lack of development work in the country during their tenures.
"No work was done in Shujaabad during Musharraf's 10-year rule," the premier said while addressing an inaugural ceremony of the Multan-Shujaabad section of Sukkur-Multan Motorway (M-5). "Musharraf started work on two to four projects but completed none while Zardari initiated no projects," PM Abbasi continued.
The premier added, "Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) completed development projects and continued to work despite tough times. Our government did not only announce development projects but completed them." "No one can gauge the intensity of challenges faced by the PML-N government," he asserted.
PM Abbasi further said, "We [PML-N] completed projects that were on hold since decades and we also had the same resources as the governments before us." "We generated an additional 10,400MW of electricity in the last five years and Musharraf and Zardari did not even start one power project," the premier upheld.
"Could all the work we did not be done by previous governments," he asked.
The premier added, "PML-N has done in the last five years what was not done in Pakistan in the last 65 years." "The party did not only work for Pakistan's today but its future." Speaking about the upcoming general election, the premier said, "You will have to make a decision in July." "The decision is not difficult as on one hand there is a party who only hurls abuses and points fingers at others while on the other it is the PML-N which serves people," he added.
The opening of the motorway section will facilitate fast and easy communication between Multan and Shujabad. The Sukkur-Multan Motorway is part of Karachi-Lahore Motorway Project and is being constructed under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
It is 394km long and will cost around Rs294 billion. Work on the motorway was started in 2016 and is scheduled to complete by 2019. It is a 6-lane access controlled facility, taking off from Sukkur and terminating at Multan, after passing through several major cities including Ghotki, Rahim Yar Khan, Sadiqabad and Bahawalpur.
The alignment traverses through the provinces of Sindh and Punjab. The project includes construction of several bridges, interchanges, culverts, underpasses and other allied structures as well as service areas.
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