Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar offer dua after unveiling the plaque for the new mass transit system in Gujranwala. Photo: APP
GUJRANWALA:
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Saturday while appreciating Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif for the successful launch of various public-oriented mega projects across the province, PML-N said after the end of their current term under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif ‘would get historic results in the next general elections’.
Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony of the mass transport system, the prime minister said the recent election results in Punjab reflected public confidence in the PML-N leadership.
“For the next three years, the incumbent government of PML-N has the mandate to serve the people,” he said, stressing that they should work tirelessly under the leadership of Muhammad Nawaz Sharif.
He expressed the optimism that the next election results across the country on the back of hard work and initiation of development projects would be comfortable for the PML-N.
“The journey of progress and prosperity has just begun and we will move on the path of development rapidly. In the next election, due to this hard work, PML-N will get historic results,” he added.
The ceremony was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Federal and Provincial Ministers, Parliamentarians, Members of Parliaments and Assemblies, relevant authorities and a large number of people.
The Prime Minister termed the groundbreaking of the mass transit system as an important initiative to facilitate the city dwellers besides facilitating the other areas, a key initiative to provide public relief.
He said the project was a gift from the Punjab CM which would transform the entire district and provide immense relief to the commuters including students, patients, workers, lawyers and other people from different walks of life.
Nawaz Sharif had launched the development projects at the time when the country was only involved in slogans and politics, he added.
With the launch of upliftment projects, Nawaz Sharif buried that kind of politics, the prime minister said, adding the former prime minister and chief minister-initiated road network, health facilities and various other economic initiatives, thus starting a new chapter of politics during the 1988 elections, which still continued under the PML-N leadership.
The prime minister said history would remember Nawaz Sharif’s achievements in golden words, including country acquiring nuclear power in 1998. If it had not been the case, the situation in the latest war with India in May would have been different, he believed.
In Punjab, he further said, his journey of progress was moving at high speed under the dynamic and young leadership of CM Punjab who continued the legacy of Nawaz Sharif.
He praised the Punjab government for initiatives like construction of cancer hospital, launch of metro buses, clean Punjab, pollution reduction, provision of houses to homeless, help to flood affected people, provision of lack of facilities in schools etc.
The Prime Minister said that all these works spoke for themselves and the truth could not be ignored even by the political opponents.
The Punjab Chief Minister in her remarks highlighted the key initiatives undertaken by her provincial government.
She said the country had witnessed tremendous progress and development under the PML-N leadership.
