Country moving towards peace, stability: CM

LAHORE: Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar on Friday said the law and order had improved since when the PTI had come to power and the country was moving towards peace and stability. Federal Minister for Law and Justice Barrister Farogh Naseem called on Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar at his office here Friday.

They discussed different matters, including law and order and steps taken for the protection of life and property of the people. Talking on the occasion, the chief minister said that the law and order had improved since when the PTI had come to power and the country was moving towards peace and stability. The image of Pakistan at the global level had restored with improvement in law and order which would also help in boosting foreign investment, he said. It was a responsibility of the state to ensure the rule of law and the provision of justice, he said adding that supremacy of law and justice, as well as the elimination of corruption was the mission of the PTI government. Usman Buzdar said that reforms agenda was underway to make the police a public-friendly institution and added that public trust on the police would be restored.

The purpose of police reforms was to provide prompt relief and justice to people, he concluded.

SOUTH PUNJAB: Usman Buzdar has said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government was taking every step for the welfare of people of South Punjab. Talking to elected representatives of South Punjab at his office here Friday, he said that different development schemes of billions of rupees had been started for prosperity of the people living in South Punjab.

"Our aim is to ensure durable development of South Punjab for benefiting people in a real sense. I fully understand the issues relating to people of South Punjab and the districts have been given importance by the Punjab government in its development programme, he added.

He reiterated that people of backward areas of South Punjab would be provided more and more facilities and their deprivation would be turned into happiness. "I fully understand problems of backward areas and the PTI government had particularly focused on development of such areas," he said.

He said that claims of prosperity remained limited to some specific areas in the past and people of backward areas were ignored. Usman Buzdar said that provision of various facilities of life to people was an important agenda of the government. In fact, development and prosperity were rights of every part of the province and keeping this thing in view, the backward areas had been given preference in the journey of development, he added. The development of backward areas and welfare of the people was a mission of the PTI government, the chief minister concluded.

GRIEVED: Usman Buzdar on Friday strongly condemned firing at two masajid in New Zealand and expressed deep grief over the loss of precious human lives.

He extended sympathies to the bereaved families and prayed for the early recovery of the injured.