KOHAT: Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday again made
it clear that he has not come through back door and he is the first
unanimously elected Prime Minister of Pakistan urging we will bring
revolutionary changes in the country.
Addressing a large public
gathering here after laying the ground breaking ceremony of over Rs 1.5
billion Khushhal Garh Bridge to connect Punjab with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
over River Indus, Gilani appreciated the announcement of a hydel power
project by the provincial government.
The Prime Minister
acknowledged the shortage of power in the country and said effective
measures were being taken to address the issue.
He said the
federation has asked the provinces to set up power generating units on
their own and expressed the hope that it would help to overcome the
growing power demand, besides creating employment.
He said the
government has increased power generation by 1000 MWs annually, since
it came into power and hoped increased capacity would benefit the
national industry.
Gilani pointed that eight percent of
country’s gas and petroleum needs were being met from this area and
hoped the bridge would help increase transportation of petroleum
products, and goods and services.
Gilani said construction of
the bridge at Kund was a long standing demand of the people and it
would lessen distance by 80 kms to the southern districts of KPK and
Fata from Punjab, and provide alternative routes.
The Prime
Minister lauded the people of the province for rendering innumerable
sacrifices in their fight against extremism and terrorism and for
protecting the country against such elements who were bent upon
damaging the country. He saluted the people of the province for their
courage and determination to root out extremism.
Prime Minister
Gilani assured the people that the government would utilise all its
resources for rebuilding of the infrastructure that has been damaged
due to the unprecedented floods and vowed to build it better.
He
said the province had been provided unprecedented funds and an era of
development and prosperity has ushered in. He said under the National
Finance Commission Award, the KPK province has been given huge funds
for development.
He said the opponents of the government were
making false claims of doing the impossible, but said the people had
seen them in the past and know the reality. He said the government with
the help of the people would transform the country and bring all
amenities of life to the under developed areas.
Gilani said all
these measures had unnerved the opponents of the government who were
levelling baseless allegations against the government, just to get more
seats in the Senate. He said the current government came into power
with the votes of the people and said he was proud to be the first
unanimously elected prime minister of the country.
He said he sought guidance from the vision of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto.
He
said in the remaining last two years of government’s tenure, new mega
projects would be launched with the cooperation of the provinces and
the federation to generate employment and speed up the pace of
development. Online
