MIANWALI: Prime Minister Imran Khan Saturday broke ground for 23 development projects in health, education and road sectors worth around Rs 36 billion for the uplift of District Mianwali, and also inaugurated another three which were completed costing Rs 5.4 billion.
“God willing, when we will complete our five years, I can claim, Mianwali will witness the development which never happened in the history… I always promised that if I get a chance, I will provide (the people) their right through my performance,” the prime minister told a gathering here.
Earlier, he unveiled the plaques to inaugurate three projects worth Rs 5.4 billion including the first phase of Mianwali-Sargodha Road which cost Rs 3.6 billion; City Park and Miyawaki Forest near Namal Lake.
He also performed the groundbreaking of upgradation of 38-kilometer Kalabagh-Shakardara road which would cost Rs 2.70 billion and upgradation of DHQ Hospital with Rs 2 billion estimated cost.
Thanking the people of Minwali for supporting him through thick and thin, the prime minister said during the electioneering, he had also committed to uplift the deprived areas of South Punjab, tribal areas, and others those faced neglect in the past.
The prime minister told the gathering that his government was ready to talk to everyone including the dissident elements in Balochistan and tribal areas for peace, but not those who looted the public money.
“We are ready to talk to everyone who has a different ideology or whom we call right or left. We are ready to resolve our issues with them peacefully be they are in Balochistan or erstwhile tribal areas or Waziristan. Only the ones whom we will never make any reconciliation with are those who looted and laundered the Pakistani people’s money,” he said.
Apprising the gathering of Pakistan’s reshaped foreign policy, the prime minister said now Pakistan would never bow before anyone rather would make independent decisions that would be better for its own people.
