Pushing PML-N to wall no service to nation: Shehbaz Opp leader says PML-N being targeted for providing cheap transport and free medicines to masses
July 13, 2021
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif on Monday came down hard on the government due to ongoing energy crisis.
Addressing a press conference at PML-N Secretariat in Model Town Lahore, the opposition leader said that there was load shedding of 20 hours before Nawaz Sharif took the reins of the country in 2013 but the PML-N government successfully gave a load shedding-free Pakistan in 2018.
Accompanied by former Finance Minister Miftah Ismail, party’s deputy secretary general Attaullah Tarar and Punjab’s Information Secretary Azma Bukhari, the opposition leader said pushing the PML-N to the wall is no service to the nation. “We are being targeted for giving cheap transport, free medicines, laptops and health cards to the people,” said the
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July 13, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China have so far remained unable to narrow down their differences over estimated cost of much-awaited construction of Mainline-1 (ML-1) rail line from Karachi to Peshawar, however, this multibillion-dollar project will be part of agenda of upcoming Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) meeting.
The JCC, under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), is scheduled to hold a virtual meeting on July 16, 2021 and financing of ML-1 will be part of the agenda of the meeting.
Pakistan’s approving forums, including Central Development Working Party (CDWP) and Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC), had granted approval of ML-1 at estimated cost of $7.2 billion, however, the Chinese side had worked out its cost hovering over $9.2 to $9.5 billion, indicating that there was a gap of over $2 billion in the estimation cost of this seven to eight years project.
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