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‘PML-N stopped development projects’

* PML-Q CEC member Tahir Siddique says Punjab chief minister ‘killed’ projects over grudges

By Hussain Kashif

LAHORE: The Punjab chapter of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid has alleged that the ruling party in the province, the PML-Nawaz, stopped dozens of development projects in 2009 that were started by the previous government of Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.

PML-Q sources told Daily Times that the PML-Q government had started several development projects across the province, but the PML-N stopped all major ones, including the Faisalabad Ring Road, Lahore Mass Transit, Wazirabad Cardiology Hospital, a medical college in Dera Ghazi Khan, District Hospital Khanewal, Sialkot-Lahore Motorway, Rojhan Bridge, Lahore-Khanewal Road, Gujranwala-Sialkot Bridge, Sundar Industrial State, Mubarak Centre and Information Technology Centre.

Grudges: Talking to reporters, PML-Q Central Executive Committee member and Punjab Additional Secretary Tahir Siddique claimed that Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had “killed” more than a dozen development projects started by the previous government due to personal grudges.
The PML-Q leader claimed that Shahbaz had stalled the Ring Road project – worth Rs 4 billion – and the Punjab government used around Rs 2 billion of the Faisalabad Development Authority to cover its defaulting accounts.

Siddique said the PML-Q government had started a comprehensive project of the Lahore Mass Transit Train to solve the city’s transportation issues, but Shahbaz stopped it because of grudges against the PML-Q. He claimed that the PML-Q government planned to establish industrial states in all major cities of the province, including Lahore, Multan and Faisalabad, but the PML-N government stopped development work on these projects.

On expanding the premises of various public hospitals and establishment of medical colleges across the province, he said the government had stopped construction of the Wazirabad Cardiology Hospital and Khanewal District Hospital as well as a project to establish a medical college in Dera Ghazi Khan worth Rs 2 billion.

Siddique said the PML-Q government had initiated two information technology-based centres, including the Mubarak Centre and the IT Centre, to provide employment opportunities to the youth but the PML-N government stopped them as well.

He also said that due to the PML-N government’s decision to suspend the Lahore-Sialkot Motorway, two foreign universities, which were committed to the previous provincial government, had been shifted to India, resulting in shift of foreign investment.
He said the Punjab CM wanted to take credit of all the development projects which were actually started by the PML-Q. He alleged that the PML-N government had also stopped the Lahore Mass Transit Train project.