Daily Times May 16, 2021 Back in mid-April, Prime Minister Imran Khan announced a Rs446-billion development package for Sindh, with the promise that it would be implemented in a month. This development initiative, termed as an historic package, includes construction of the Sukkur-Hyderabad motorway and the Naj Gaj Dam. Naturally, the prime objective for all this is to garner political sympathies in interior Sindh. It seems unlikely that the PTI leadership will win on this front. The very next day, April 17, Sindh Minister for Information and Local Government Syed Nasir Hussain Shah dismissed the package as an eyewash, while adding that all the projects included in the initiative were already incorporated in the federal budget and had been held up due to lack of funds. He went on to point out that the motorway project was conceived under CPEC (Chinese-Pakistan Economic Corridor) by the last PMLN government and the dam project was first floated in 2013. Nevertheless, Nasir Hussain stressed that despite the Centre failing to take the Sindh government into confidence – it would cooperate with the PTI.