Work On Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway To Start Soon: Murad Saeed
December 04, 2021
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KARACHI, (APP): Federal Minister of Communication and Postal Services Murad Saeed on Saturday said bids for Motorway’s Hyderabad-Sukkur section have been received and soon Prime Minister Imran Khan would perform groundbreaking of the project.Murad Saeed, while addressing a press conference here at Sindh Assembly building along with the leader of the opposition in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh and other elected representatives of PTI, said that Hyderabad-Sukkur Motorway would be the first motorway initiated by the PTI government and a gift for people of Sindh.He said that the federal government was working on a number of projects of highways and roads in Sindh to ensure better communication and transportation facilities to the masses.GreenLine of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system would be inaugurated in December and people of Karachi would be able to avail better commuting facilities which they were vying for, he announced adding that another important project 786-kilometer long Karachi-Quetta-Chaman highway entered into advanced stages and construction work would start shortly.The federal minister stated that the federal government was also playing its role in the completion of the Karachi Circular Railway while several roads and streets were completed in Karachi through federal funding. Another road project was completed in Umerkot district which would be inaugurated tomorrow (Sunday), he added.Murad Saeed said people in Sindh were suffering due to bad governance and corruption of PPP’s provincial government while democratic norms were being undermined by self-acclaimed champions of democracy.He said the party that taught lessons of democracy in the National Assembly and Senate was denting democratic principles in Sindh by constraining opposition from playing its role in the assembly.It was regrettable that opposition parties in Sindh were deprived even membership in Public Accounts Committee and standing committees while Shahbaz Sharif was made chairman PAC although he was under allegations of corruption, he remarked.Murad Saeed while condemning the brutal killings of Fahmida Sial, Nazim Jokhio, and Sakhawat Rajput said that the law and order situation in Sindh was out of control as people were murdered by influential persons. Um-e-Rabab was another example of injustice in Sindh whose father and other family members were assassinated and she was in quest of justice.The federal minister also alleged PPP of obstructing federal funded projects in Sindh and said that the provincial government raised objections on projects of education and health sector under MNA fund on the pretext of the 18th amendment and provincial autonomy.On the other side the same Sindh government had attempted to deprive local government institutions of their constitutional rights and responsibilities, he said adding that article 140-A of the Constitution that provided for financial, administrative, and political empowerment of LG bodies was violated in Sindh.He said that Prime minister Imran Khan was planning to introduce Electronic Voting (EVM) to ensure transparent and fair elections while PPP wanted secret balloting in the LG system to facilitate rigging and to launch unelected people of their choice.He said that health, education, law and order, and all other sectors were destroyed in Sindh where hospitals lake doctors, medicines, and ambulances and schools were missing teachers and furniture.PTI has introduced historical reforms in police, education, environment, and health sectors in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and put the terrorism hit the province on the path of progress and prosperity, he stated adding that every citizen in KPK had access to better health facilities through Health Card while the same facility was also provided to masses in Punjab, Gilgit Baltistan, and Tharparkar district of Sindh.Murad Saeed said that wheat flour and sugar were more expensive in Sindh due to erroneous policies and corrupt practices of the PPP Sindh government. Responding to a query about the improvement of the Indus Highway, the Communication minister said that zero progress was made on the project till 2018 but PTI after attaining the power started work on the project and motorway police were also deputed on the highway. Completion of the project would be achieved soon, he added.Murad Saeed while replying to a question about Karachi-Hyderabad Motorway M9 said that the communication ministry was in contact with the Sindh government for improving the M9 but the issue of the right of the way was not resolved so far.He said that there were 118 toll plazas under control of NHA and the PTI government has not raised toll tax but an agreement regarding the M9 motorway was inked in 2015 for a 20-year term. Murad Saeed vowed that the PTI government will not leave the people of Sindh at the mercy of inefficient PPP government and take every constitutional and legal measure to alleviate their problems.Sindh will get rid of thugs and muggers in the upcoming general elections, he added. Responding to another query, he said that Pakistan Post that was bearing losses for decades has been turned into a profitable state-owned entity for the first time by reducing losses and controlling expenditure while augmenting its income as per the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan.(Please send your news, article, pictorial to our email address <editor@enewspaper.com.pk &WhatsApp +923132434567 / +923332100737PLEASE SEND YOUR COMMENTS Thanks)(facebook ID shujaullahk)https://www.facebook.com/Newspaper on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Enewspapercompk-182394028490643(twitter: KhanShujaullah)https://www.twitter.com/home(linkedin: shuja-ullah-khan)https://www.linkedin.com/feed/
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