ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan says government top most priority isto provide facilities to the common man.
Addressing a ceremony after inaugurating Mianwali Express at Mianwalitoday, he said train is the mode of travel used by common man to move fromone place to another and it will be further improved.
He said the economic challenges we inherited are being resolved.
He said under ML1 project the time to travel between Lahore and Karachiwill be reduced to eight hours only. It will also reduce load of traffic onroads of Pakistan besides improving cargo handling by Pakistan Railways.
He said he will ensure that youth of Mianwali are imparted technical skillsin order to increase their employability.
Imran Khan said there will be no compromise on process of accountability.
Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed in his address said the MianwaliExpress will cater to travelling needs of large number of people of thearea.
Mianwali Express will ply between Lahore to Mari Indus. It will departLahore at nine pm and reach Mari Indus at six am daily.
Speaking at ground breaking ceremony of a hospital at NAMAL Institute inMianwali this afternoon, Prime Minister Imran Khan has reiterated hisgovernment’s commitment to bring backward areas of the country at par withdeveloped ones.
The Prime Minister said the construction of a state of the art hospital ina backward area will help the local population receive medical care.
He said spiritual happiness is achieved after helping the mankind.
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He said the name of those people will always be taken with respect who workfor humanity.
Imran Khan said NAMAL University was his vision of providing education topeople in an area where people had no opportunities of getting highereducation.
The Prime Minister said the number of PHD holders in NAMAL faculty hasincreased to twenty two from eleven. He said 97 students in the universityare studying on scholarships.
Blaming corruption for various economic challenges Pakistan is facing, hesaid the country cannot move forward unless this menace is curtailed. Hesaid the country’s debt reached to 30,000 billion rupees from 6,000 billionrupees in a decade due to corruption and bad governance. He said inflation,devaluation of rupee and general economic malaise have been caused by theplundering and looting of national wealth during the last ten years.
Imran Khan said even the infrastructure projects completed by previousgovernment are running on loss. He said a loss of twelve billion rupees isbeing incurred on annual basis on three metro bus projects in Punjab.
Referring to corruption cases against opposition leaders, the PrimeMinister said most of these were instituted during the tenures of previousgovernment. He made it clear that the process of accountability willcontinue without any discrimination. He said no influence or pressure willbe tolerated from any side in this regard. He said some people incarceratedon corruption charges tried to influence him through recommendations fromoutside the country.
Responding to allegations of political victimization, Prime Minister saidvarious cases were made against him in the previous government but he stoodbravely against these fabricated charges and was eventually cleared by thecourts. He said the people who are making furor today are unable to provideany money trail to their wealth.
The Prime Minister expressed optimism that difficult economic period willbe over and country will become prosperous in future. He said governmentwill increase investment on human development once the economic situationimproves.
Imran Khan urged the big philanthropists to adopt government hospitals inimproving their services.
