ISLAMABAD
Federal Minister said that I spent two and a half years in the cell where death row prisoners live. I had to serve jail term for the offence of building sports complex in my district, he pointed out.
If a society does not change with time, it will lag behind in the world. While addressing a ceremony in Islamabad Ahsan Iqbal said that today access to information is very convenient. World is making progress in Science and Technology.
Ahsan Iqbal says that challenge for society is how it evolves with the changing world. Countries are left behind when they do not keep up with the changing world.
He said that China started its journey towards development by eradicating poverty from its country.
The federal minister said that the required progress in the field of technology needs time.
When we came to government in 2023 there was loadshedding for 16 to 18 hours of electricity in country.
He said that when we came to government in 2023 not a day passed without suicide bombing.
Karachi was unsafe for citizens.
No investors were willing to come to Pakistan.
We had changed all that in 3 to 4 years.
Ahsan Iqbal said that Pakistan was going to become the 20th most powerful economy by 2030.
When we came to government in 2013, we added 11,000 MW of electricity in 4 years.
Within 3 years, investments of 29 billion dollars were brought through CPEC.
He also said that we have shown that Pakistan has the potential to develop.
Since 2018 the situation has changed again.
Governance is not about blaming the opposition.
