SIALKOT: Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Sunday said thegovernment was utilising all available resources to improve the means ofcommunications evenly in urban and rural areas of the country.

Addressing the laptop distribution ceremony at Government College for WomenUniversity, he said the basic concept for improving means of communicationswas to bring far-off and neglected areas at par with the developed parts ofthe country.

The foreign minister said the mega project of China Pakistan EconomicCorridor (CPEC) would play an instrumental role in bringing a revolutionarychange and usherin economic stability and prosperity, not only in thecountry but also in the whole region.

He was confident that Gwadar port would emerge as a busiest port and play adominating role in ensuring drastic economic stability and overalldevelopment of the country as well as in the region.

Gwadar port and CPEC projects would open new vista of prosperity anddevelopment and enlarge the scope of employment opportunities for thepeople of the country, he added.

Asif said the economic stability had become more vital at this juncture formaking the country economically stable, bringing prosperity and to boostdevelopment process in the country. Asif said banishing of backwardness andelimination of poverty were on the top of government agenda and many stepshad already been taken in this direction.

The linking of remote areas with developed areas would eventually bringabout revolutionary changes in lifestyle and usher in a new era ofdevelopment and prosperity, he added. He said under the programme 1,800 KMlong roads had been constructed in Baluchistan for improving and linkingdowntrodden areas with the developed parts of the province.

The foreign minister said “Pakistan is making hectic efforts to maintainpeace in the region but our neighboring country has been creating obstaclesin the peace process and is indulged in patronising terrorists.”

He said India was in fever of war phobia and continuously violating on LOCand Working Boundary, besides killing the innocent civilians. Pakistan hasrendered great scarifies in war against terrorism and efforts were stillunderway to purge the menace, he added.

The minister made it clear that any attempt to impose war or misadventureby India would be crushed with iron hand adding the world shouldacknowledge and recognize the scarifies of Pakistan, rendered in the waragainst terrorism.