PM to complete projects in provinces under his supervision: Marriyum

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Marriyum Aurangzeb on Tuesday said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will complete projects in the provinces under his own supervision. 

The minister said the PML-N leadership was committed to serving the people of Pakistan and the prime minister was visiting Sindh, KP and Balochistan with an agenda to serve the people.

"The prime minister is going to those provinces where the provincial governments have shown slackness in delivering to the masses,” she said, adding that Nawaz Sharif is the prime minister of the entire country and will keep visiting those areas in the future also and nobody has the right to indulge in politics over the public service oriented projects being announced by him or hurl criticism at them.

The minister was talking to the media on the sidelines of a national consultation on implementation of "Pakistan School Safety Framework" jointly organised by the National Disaster Management Authority  (NDMA) and Unicef for beefing security of educational institutions in Pakistan.

Marriyum said the leadership of PML-N has always worked with unswerving commitment and determination to serve the masses and reinforcing stability in the country. She said the prime minister was announcing those projects in Sindh, KP and Balochistan which have been successfully implemented in Punjab and the people of the province were reaping their benefits. The minister emphatically declared "people will now vote for those leaders and parties which have delivered during their stint of power".

Marriyum said under the inspiring leadership of Nawaz Sharif, development projects were vigorously being pursued. "Politics and performance go hand in hand and they cannot be separated. The government has made historic headway in tackling terrorism, lifting economic profile of the country and bringing improvement in the health and education sectors,” she said.

The minister acknowledged the role of media in fighting terrorism and the successes that have been achieved in different areas of the national life.  In response to a question regarding Panama case, she said, "We better leave it to the court and whatever verdict it gives will be accepted ungrudgingly." 

The minister observed that the initiatives like the “Pakistan School City Framework” could only be accomplished with the cooperation of the provinces, departments concerned and all the stakeholders. She said the government was working with full commitment to prevent the recurrence of incidents that happened in the educational institutions during the previous regimes. The minister remarked that under the prime minister's education reforms programme the security of 422 schools of Islamabad is being further improved.