Millions going to Islamabad on PM’s call: CM

LAHORE : Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar said on Saturday that Islamabad public meeting would prove to be the last nail in the coffin of the mafia as millions of party workers were moving towards Islamabad on the call of Prime Minister Imran Khan.

In a statement, he said that Islamabad’s public meeting would differentiate between good and bad as the people considered Imran Khan a true leader.

The opponents could not harm PM Imran Khan, he said and reaffirmed that the people were standing beside the captain. He said that Imran Khan had come out from every crisis successfully and put the country on right direction. He said people were supporting Imran Khan and remain to do so in future as well.

Islamabad public meeting would prove to be a public referendum against the opponents, he added.

Meanwhile, Federal and provincial ministers and assembly members called on Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar in Kamalia on Saturday and apprised him about the ongoing development projects in Kamalia and Toba Tek Singh.

Buzdar said that under the annual development programme, 407 ongoing and other new development projects in district Toba Tek Singh would be completed with Rs 5 billion, according to a handout issued here.

Similarly, Rs 1.3 billion would be spent on 171 projects of community development. Under sustainable development projects, 474 schemes would be completed at a cost of Rs 890 million and Rs 500 million would be spent on the construction and expansion of the roads for easy access from fields to market. He said new projects worth Rs 4 billion were being launched in Toba Tek Singh under the district development programme. People of district Toba Tek Singh would get free-of-cost treatment facilities up to one million rupees from public and private hospitals through Sehat Insaf cards.

Those who met the chief minister include Farrukh Habib, Riaz Fityana, Ashifa Riaz, Hashim Jawan Bakht, Hafiz Mumtaz Ahmad, Nasrullah Dreshak and others.

Chief Secretary Punjab, IG Punjab, Commissioner Faisalabad, RPO, DC Toba Tek Singh and others were also present.

Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has directed early completion of the health related projects and said that work has been started on setting up new emergency block and trauma centres at Ferozepur Road and Jinnah hospital. He said this during a meeting with Provincial Health Minister Yasmeen Rashid who called on him at CM’s Office on Saturday.

She apprised the chief minister about the various ongoing projects regarding provision of quality health services to the people of the province. Usman Buzdar said that setting up of three emergency blocks and trauma centres in Lahore will add 800 beds in the public sector hospitals. He said that Rs 400 billion were being spent on Universal Health Insurance Programme and by 31st March every family of Punjab could get benefit from free of cost health care facilities up to one million rupees.