Chakdara(INP): Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, has said that the resources of the country were a national trust which should be justly distributed among the provinces to avoid any sense of deprivation from any quarter.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the Swabi-Swat provincial motorway on Thursday, he said that the country’s resources were nobody’s personal property that could be given away at the sweet will of someone. The fair distribution of the resources helps create national harmony and mutual confidence, he added.
The Chief Minister of Khyber P. Pervez Khattak, and provincial communications minister also addressed the function. Sirajul Haq said that one of the country’s provinces was prosperous while others were being deprived, and added that such a policy could not be tolerated.
“The Prime Minister takes his brother along with him in foreign tours while the Chief Ministers of other provinces are ignored. Political differences apart, the Prime Minister should treat all the provinces at par”, he added.
Sirajul Haq said that the Khyber P. had the potential to generate 40,000 MW of electricity but the government was not giving any attention to it. The nation had to purchase electricity at Rs. 18 per unit instead of Rs. 2 per unit as was a sheer injustice and gross exploitation of the masses, he added.
He demanded that the CPEC be routed through Gilgit, Chitral, Hazara, Swat and Peshawar. He said the coalition government in Khyber P had shown a new route to the world for the first time, and the inauguration of the Swabi-Swat motorway was a great success and would ensure rapid development in the areas of Chitral, Gilgit, Skardu while the trade and communication link would be opened from Malakand to China and Asian states. Job opportunities would be created for thousands of people.
The JI chief said that five spots in the Khyber P. could be developed into the best tourist spots in the world as could attract millions of tourists and help earn billions of dollars for the country and make the country independent of the IMF and the World Bank.
The JI chief said that due t o the efforts of the coalition government, supremacy of law had been established in Khyber P, corruption and commissions had been significantly controlled, and numerous projects that had remained neglected for years, had been completed. He was sure the province would soon become an abode of peace and love.