ISLAMABAD
Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting, National Heritage and Culture Attaullah Tarar said on Saturday that under the leadership of Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had always done the politics of services to the masses and provided them maximum facilities.
Attaullah Tarar addressing a press conference here in Islamabad said Nawaz Sharif, during his first term as prime minister, initiated mega development projects including South Asia’s first Motorways network in the country. He said it was Nawaz Sharif who took steps for ease of business, initiated power generation projects and provided facilities to investors.
Tarar said that Punjab government had taken a good step by providing subsidy to electricity consumers. “Chief Minister Punjab Mariam Nawaz has given a big relief to consumers in Punjab in terms of electricity,” Tarar said adding it was historic and unprecedented step which would cost Rs 45 billion. He said a former caretaker minister who was also making hue and cry over power tariff, now should come forward and laud the Punjab government’s initiative.
He said that in 2018 when the tenure of the PML-N government ended, inflation was only 4 per cent and GDP growth rate was over 6 per cent. He said that yesterday Nawaz Sharif rightly said that the people were hit by inflation and sky rocketing prices of daily use items during the era when £ 190 million scam emerged, when Tosha Khana and cypher cases emerged and Punjab was at the mercy of Farha Gogi and bad governance was at its worst.
He said during that time inflation reached 23 percent and the present regime with it hard work had brought it down to 11 percent and there were projections of further decrease.
The government has reduced the price of petroleum products as a gift to the nation on the occasion of independence day when it was celebrating the victory of Arshad Nadeem in Paris Olympics. Earlier, he said the PM had given Rs 50 billion relief to upto 200 unit power consumers for three months. He said that the package announced by Punjab chief minister would provide Rs 14 relief per unit to consumers using upto 500 units per month .
He expressed the hope that with the steps taken by the federal and Punjab governments, the masses would get considerable relief and situation would further improve in the near future.
