SIALKOT: Federal Minister for Defence, Water and Power, Khawaja Muhammad Asif has said that people have become matured politically and they had already rejected the ‘Dharna Politics’ and negatives styled politics of conflict by the political opponents in the country.
He stated this while addressing an important meeting of the local elected chairmen and vice chairman of the union councils and local parliamentarians held at PML-N House here on Saturday.
Khawaja Asif said that the graph of popularity of the political rivals has dropped to a great extent in every nook and corner of the country and it was also dropping further day by day sue to the negative styled politics of conflict by the political rivals.
He said that PTI’s rejection of proposed establishment of a commission by Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) has further dropped the graph of political popularity of PTI across the country as well.
The Defence Minister pledged to make all out sincere efforts to solve all the prolonged perturbing civic problems in Sialkot city during the year 2017, saying that the Sialkot Campus of National University of Science and Technology (NUST) would soon be established near Sambrial for providing quality higher educational to the local students at local level.
Khawaja Muhammad Asif also announced that the construction work of mega project of Sialkot-Lahore Motorway would be started within next couple of days near Saahowala, Daska and Sialkot as well under the joint supervision of National Highway Authority (NHA) and Frontier Works Organization (FWO).
He said all the needed land had already been acquired for this Sialkot-Lahore Motorway Project.
Earlier, Khawaja Muhammad Asif (Federal Minister for Defence, Water and Power) visited Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) here today. On this occasion, he assured the Sialkot exporters about the early amicable solution to their prolonged perturbing problems including the early release of the needed funds for issuance of much delayed duty draw back and sales tax refund claims (worth billions of rupees) of the Sialkot exporters.
Khawaja Muhammad Asif said that the government was well aware of the problems being faced by the business community and was making all out sincere efforts to resolves these problems amicably as well. He said that the prevailing effective and positive policies of the PML-N government have put the country on the highway to economical and political stability as well.
Provincial Minister for Local Bodies Punjab Mansha Ullah Butt, MPAs Ch. Muhammad Ikram, Zulfiqar Ghauri, Muhammad Asif Bajwa, elected Mayor of Sialkot city Ch. Tauheed Akhtar, Deputy Mayor Ch. Bashir Ahmed, President PML-N Sialkot District Idrees Ahmed Bajwa and local traders and exporters were also present on this occasion.
