TURBAT, Pakistan: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government is pursuing the path of economic development while its opponents are only indulging in negative politics.
While speaking at the inaugural ceremony of Sorab-Hoshab highway in Turbat on Wednesday, the prime minister said that people of Pakistan would make a decision on the basis of actual work in 2018 general elections.
The 448 kilometers Sorab-Hoshab road, which is important component of the Western Route of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), has been completed at a cost of over Rs 22 billion to link Gwadar Port with National Highway network. It will also provide shortest link to Afghanistan and Central Asian Republics.
While expressing resolve of his government to transform the entire socio-economic landscape of Balochistan, Nawaz Sharif described completion of this vital project as making of new Balochistan and new Pakistan.
The prime minister expressed the confidence that its completion would create enormous economic and commercial activities and help overcome the challenge of poverty, backwardness, ignorance and unemployment in the region.
Nawaz Sharif regretted that Balochistan remained neglected in the past but the present government is fully resolved to bring it at part with other province. He said that development and progress is right of people of Balochistan and it is duty of the Government to give them this right.
The prime minister said that Balochistan has been bestowed with immense natural resources exploitation of which cannot only change fate of the province but also the country. He said that CPEC and development of Gwadar would prove to be game changer for the province, the country and the entire region.
Sharif further said that developmental activities are visible in each and every corner of the country. He said that a number of motorways, highways and roads besides bridges and other infrastructure projects are being undertaken in different areas. He said that a number of power plants are coming up and as a consequence the country would get rid of the menace of load-shedding.
