MULTAN: The Chairman of Senate Yousuf Raza Gillani has stated that a special economic zone will be established in South Punjab.
The Senate Chairman Yousaf Raza Gilani While talking at a dinner hosted in his honour at the Multan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) on Saturday, the former prime minister said that a 165-acre piece of land had been earmarked for a special economic zone in Jalalpur Pirwala tehsil of Multan district.
Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani stressed the need to incentivise agriculture and industry in order to provide maximum jobs to the unemployed poor, noting that both agriculture and textile sectors played an important role in generation of employment opportunities on a large scale.
The Chairman Senate remarked that it was very much essential to offer jobs to unemployed persons, recalling that he had been jailed for nine years for offering jobs to unemployed persons.
“Provision of jobs is essential, especially in backward region of south Punjab. There had been a term Punjabi Taliban and the main reason behind the term was poverty as local people used to send their kids to religious seminaries,” he said, adding that the seminaries offered meal, clothing and residence to the poor students and also promoted their particular ideologies.
The Senate Chairman stated that road connectivity was vital for uplift of any region, stating that he had worked on spiritually, education and public services.
Responding to an IT park demand, Gilani stated that Information Technology Park would be established in the city in future. He said he had tasked Ali Qasim Gillani with working on the project. About projects for welfare of women, he said that he had introduced Benazir Income Support Programme for welfare of poor women.
Upon a question about the rising incidents of cybercrime, Gilani said that cybercrimes were becoming cancer in society, adding that effective efforts were in being taken to curb the crime.
