Reservations over CPEC should be addressed properly, says Sindh CM

SUKKUR: The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will bring economic prosperity to the whole country, including Sindh, but there are certain parties who have reservations about the CPEC. 

This was stated by the Chief Minister of Sindh, Syed Murad Ali Shah, while talking to the media after inaugurating the Fourth International Dental Conference at the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) in Jamshoro on Friday. “I am in favour of CPEC, but some of our Baloch friends have reservations about it, and their reservations should be addressed properly,” he said.

Shah said that CPEC was the initiative of former president Asif Ali Zardari.  The chief minister said that he would soon travel to China to attend a conference on CPEC. Shah said that every political party, including the PTI, had the democratic right to stage peaceful demonstrations, but they had no right to damage anyone’s property. 

The chief minister said that if the PTI wanted to have peaceful demonstrations in Sindh, the provincial government would never stop the party from doing so. Syed Murad Ali Shah said that the MQM had definitely split from its founder.  He said that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto had sacrificed their lives for democracy. Meanwhile, addressing the conference, the chief minister urged the doctors to serve the people.

 He said his government was determined to facilitate doctors. The chief minister said that his government was giving stipends to 500 doctors. He said that funds would be earmarked for a trauma centre and a 500-bed hospital in the budget.  Health Minister Dr Sikandar Mandhro and the Vice Chancellor of the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Dr Noshad, also addressed the conference.