SANGLA HILL: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday said that some people wanted to stop development of the country but the journey of progress and development would not stop.
Addressing a public meeting at Sangla Hill after inaugurated the Sangla Hill interchange on Pindi Bhattian-Faisalabad Motorway (M-3), Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif said that the shape of the country was changing.
“If the current pace of development is maintained, then there will be electricity everywhere,” he said adding that the opponents did not want the power crisis be solved, but we all overcome the crisis at any cost.
He urged the masses to question those who were responsible for the power crisis.
Prime Minister urged the people to go to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and see whether those met their promise of making a new Pakistan. That’s is the same old Pakistan there in KP, he added.
Nawaz said that there was stark difference between the Pakistan three years ago and today’s Pakistan. He said that the world was acknowledging that Pakistan was progressing. “ We are overhauling of Railways, Pakistan International Airline,” he said adding that today interchange and motorways were being constructed in different parts of the country.
On the occasion, the Prime Minister also announced to construct 50 major hospitals in the country.
Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan, Chaudhry Muhammad Barjees Tahir and Federal Minister of National Health Services Saira Afzal Tarar were also present on the occasion.
The three point seven kilometer long interchange has been completed at a cost of two hundred and ninety nine point two (299.202) million rupees and has a four hundred and forty meter wide service road, two toll plazas and a traffic control room.
The interchange will link adjoining areas of Sangla Hill to the National Highway and Motorway network for agricultural and industrial development in the area. The project was a longstanding demand of the local, which has been materialized.
There are agricultural farms and industries on the route and the project will enable the locals to carry their products to the adjacent areas and other cities.
