Govt gives top priority to Balochistan development: PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has revealed that the ongoing projects of Balochistan are being funded on fast track basis and Gwadar will be linked with the main cities of the country to unleash the full potential of Balochistan. The government is giving priority to the development of Balochistan.
He was talking to Chief Minister Balochsitan Dr Abdul Malik Baloch, who had an important meeting with the prime minister at the PM House on Tuesday. National Party chief Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo, Federal Minister Khawaja Saad Rafiq, Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) for PoliticalAffairs Asif Saeed Kirmani, Secretary to the PM Javaid Aslam and Additional Secretary to the PM Fawad Hasan Fawad were also present in the meeting.
He said that Balochistan is the main beneficiary of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. Nawaz Sharif said the ongoing projects of Balochistan are being funded on fast track basis and Gwadar will be linked with the main cities to unleash the full potential of Balochistan.
The prime minister said the government plans to connect Pakistan with Central Asia via Tirmiz and soon the people of Balochistan will come to know that the province will be the central point of economic activity of the whole region.On the occasion, the Balochistan chief minister briefed the prime minister on the development projects and the security situation of the province.
Political observers pointed out that the meeting had significance in the backdrop of change of the chief minister in Balochistan within 12 weeks as per the ‘Murree Agreement’ inked in June 2013. The agreement provides that Dr. Abdul Malik would step down in early December 2015 to pave the way for the induction of Mir Sanaullah Zehri, who will assume the Chief Minister’s office .
Sources said that performance of Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch had impressed the federal government and other stakeholders, including the members of the Balochistan Assembly. They wish to see Dr. Baloch to continue in the province as long he enjoys the support of the majority of the provincial assembly, the sources pointed out.