Islamabad:
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Tuesday that the Government would present the Ramazan help pack this year without the role of public service stores to avoid corruption and distribution of low quality products to people.
“As the Holy Ramazan is about to begin, I have asked the Ministry of National Food Security to bring a Ramzan package without public service stores [Corporation (USC)] To avoid corruption and the sale of low quality material. Many months ago he had asked that this cannot continue with public service stores, “said Prime Minister in his televised opening comments at the federal cabinet meeting chaired by him.
He told the members of the cabinet that last year, the government had received many complaints about the execution of the Ramazan package by public service stores. Therefore, the Government has devised a solution to provide the installation less public service stores.
The prime minister ordered the immediate measures to operationalize the port of Gwadar commercially and instructed the formation of a committee under the minister’s presidency to plan Ahsan IQBAL to work with all interested parties to transform it into a modern and fully functional port.
Iqbal gave a detailed informative session on the port of Gwadar at the cabinet meeting.
The prime minister also led the organization of an international conference to raise awareness about the importance of the port of Gwadar. “A comprehensive marketing and awareness strategy should be devised and diplomatic efforts with respect to the port of Gwadar must be accelerated.”
He also looked for imports of imports and exports made through the port of Gwadar. The meeting was informed that the Gwadar port had the ability to provide profitable and efficient access to the Persian Gulf for vessels of up to 50,000 tonnage of dead weight (DWT) and facilitate transmission to the ferry to the gulf countries.
In addition, the port was expected to play a vital role in the development of the mining and aquacular sectors in the province of Baluchistan. The western parts of China and the states of Central Asia would also benefit from this port.
The meeting was also reported that Gwadar’s free zone had been exempt from all federal, provincial and local taxes and the rules for the free zone had been completed.
It was revealed that between 2018 and 2022, criminal negligence was regarding dredging in the port of Gwadar, which seriously affected its depth. However, the dredging was completed in 2022-23, after which its depth had been restored. All the necessary public services services in the Gwadar port were added, it was added.
The meeting was also informed about several public welfare projects in GWADAR, including the Pak-China Friendship Hospital, the Gwadar Technical Education Institute, the Pak-China Elementary School, the GWADAR surveillance media project, the fishing processing of Gwadar and the export zone, and the Gwadar Solar Park.
Prime Minister was informed that the government was also working to link Gwadar with the main line of Pakistan Railways M-4.
The Gwadar-Quetta road was completed in 2018, benefiting areas such as Tobat, Hoshab and Panjgur. In addition, the remaining sections of the M-8 highway (Dro de Gwadar-HoShab-Rato) were under construction to connect Gwadar with Sukkur.
To further improve the connectivity of Gwadar-Quetta, the Nokundi-Mashkhel road was being built, while the work on the Mashkhel-Panjgur road would begin soon, it was said.
The work at Gwadar East Bay Expressway was carried out at fast speed while the work at Gwadar Safe City was completed in collaboration with the Baluchistan government.
The minister proposed to modernize the loading inspection facilities in the port of Gwadar and use artificial intelligence for this purpose. The prime minister appreciated the information session.
On the launch of the impulse of polyomyelitis vaccination, he mentioned the murder of an Abdul Khaliq policeman in Jamrud, who was deployed in the security of the polio team and paid tribute to his sacrifice to make Pakistan a nation free of polio.
He also praised the services of the Prime Minister’s coordinator on Dr. Mukhtar, the coordinator of the Polio, Dr. Ayesha Farooq, Secretary of Health and Poly Vaccinators for his tireless efforts to free the country from this paralyzing disease.
When informing the members of the Cabinet of his visit to Quetta on Monday, the prime minister said he visited the hospital to investigate after the security personnel who were injured in an anti -terrorism operation in Kalat in which 18 security personnel were martyred and 23 terrorists were eliminated.
“I met the injured. They were in high moral and were even ready to sacrifice their lives for the country.
These are the martyrs and Ghazis that are resolved to free the country of terrorism and the fight for a day and night for the cause, “he said.
The prime minister said that Army soldiers, police, FC and rangers sacrificing their lives were really with the worst part of a government’s skillful policies when thousands of terrorists were released.
Cabinet members also offered Fateha to martyred security personnel, as well as the police in the duty of polyomyelitis.
The prime minister expressed pleasure for inflation that was reduced to a minimum of nine years to 2.4% of 28.73% in a month to month.
He congratulated the entire nation, the members of the cabinet, particularly to the Minister of Finance, his team, FBR and others for their efforts during the last 11 months to reduce inflation to the lowest level.
“Now, we completely strive to go towards economic growth … This is the main challenge. All our energies will focus on economic growth. Like other objectives, we will also achieve it,” he said.
He told the Cabinet members that on Monday, the Saudi heir prince Mohammed Bin Salman sent a delegation to Pakistan and both parties signed an agreement under which the kingdom would provide oil worth $ 1.2 billion annually in deferred payment.
In addition, the Saudi Development Fund will also provide a loan for a $ 40 million water supply scheme project in Mansehra.
He said that the whole nation would observe the day of solidarity of Kashmiro on Wednesday to express solidarity with his Kashmir brothers.
Prime Minister Shehbaz also praised the approval of Agricultural Income Tax for the four provinces according to the IMF condition and thanked the main ministers, President Asif Ali Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Mian Nawaz Sharif for their support in this regard.
