Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says Allegations from the opposition are hampering progress
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says Allegations from the opposition are hampering progress: On Thursday 25th, May, 2017, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed his happiness over completion of the installation of the first unit of the Sahiwal coal-fired power project, which was completed six months before schedule. At the moment he said that he wondered how a corrupt government could have accomplished the feat.
The PM was speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the first unit (660MW) of the project in Qadirabad. Prime Minister Nawaz said that the unit was completed in a record time of 22 months; he added that the project would reach its total generation capacity of 1,320 MW in June. The project has been constructed at a cost of Rs152 billion.
During the inauguration the prime minister also announced payment of a bonus equivalent to one-month salary to the Chinese and Pakistani engineers and workers who were working at the plant.
The Prime Minister also claimed that by 2018, the Pakistan Muslim League-N government will add 10,000 MW to the national grid. He said that this would end power cuts in the country.
PM Sharif added that there were no power and gas cuts for industry and all industrial units were running round the clock. The PM criticised the previous government for failing to give priority to undertaking mega projects and claimed that during its tenure, funds were wasted through re-framing feasibilities of the projects and increasing their costs again and again.
The Prime Minister without naming the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leadership, said that they were appearing on TV and hurling allegations on a daily basis and hampering the country’s march to progress.
The premier added that PTI’s confrontational politics would fizzle out in future because “we have stopped responding to false allegations levelled by it, Responding to their false allegation is waste of energy. I will not stick to this game and will remain busy in making Pakistan prosperous.”
Speaking to the occasion, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif added that had the PTI not staged a sit-in in Islamabad in 2014 and allowed the Chinese leadership to visit Pakistan in April that year. The Sahiwal plant would have become operational earlier in Dec 2016.
Giving a reference to Pakistan People’s Party co- chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, he added that “Zar” and “Zardar” did not have the potential to undertake power projects. He further added that they delayed Neelum-Jhelum, Nandipur and other power projects for 18 years only to increase the projects’ cost and pave way for corruption.
The PM took to criticising former President and retired COAS Pervez Musharaf and said that “A dictator inaugurated work on the Bhasha dam but I have been told that even land was not purchased for the project when (the then president) Pervez Musharaf unveiled the inauguration plaque.”
Earlier Prime Minister Sharif inaugurated the first unit of the Sahiwal coal-fired power project and visited different parts of the plant.
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