Muqam inaugurates passport office in Swabi

SWABI: Adviser to the prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Amir Muqam on Saturday said the government was trying to eliminate terrorism and improve trade in the country.

He was addressing a function after inaugurating passport office in Swabi.

PML-N Khyber Pakhtun-khwa president Pir Sabir Shah and party workers from across the district attended the gathering.

“The federal government now has zero tolerance to terrorism that has been harming the country,” he said. He added that loadshedding would also be ended by 2018.

The premier’s advisor said that claim of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan to establish 360 small dams and end loadshedding in the province was a hollow slogan.

Muqam claimed that people of the province had rejected PTI’s policies and voted for other political parties in the local government elections. 

The passport office was a longstanding demand of the people of the district and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan played a dominant role in its establishment, he said.

However, he did not utter a single word about Tarakai family’s claim that they had sanctioned the passport office during the PPP government and Amir Muqam should not inaugurate a project initiated by them. PML-N leader Pir Sabir Shah and MPA Shiraz Khan also spoke on the occasion.