PM to announce mega development package for Sindh districts soon, says Asad Umar

HYDERABAD  – Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Saturday  said federal government would announce mega development package for other districts of Sindh like Karachi in next visit of Prime Minister Imran Khan to Sindh in the end of this month.

 He said this while addressing a press conference here at HESCO Headquarter after meeting with provincial leadership of Pakistan Tahreek -e- Insaf (PTI), MQM-Pakistan and Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA).

He said PTI had emerged as popular party of the country after recent elections held in Sindh and Punjab as Pakistan Muslim Leage-N and Pakistan Peoples Party had won their own seats with low margin as compared to 2018 general elections while PTI had secured more votes despite losing these seats in last general elections.   

Pakistan Tahreek -e- Insaf and allies MQM-P and GDA were democratic parties therefore, their members and leaders always raised questions related to party and political affairs, he said while replying to a question. He said Liaquat Ali Jatoi had been summoned by party leadership to clarify his statement.

Asad Umar said to streamline performance of government institutions like NADRA, WAPDA, NHA, power distribution companies and other federal organizations, meeting with stakeholders held to deliberate on different proposals for paving way for betterment of these institutions.

Rumors about toppling of the PTI government were being spread by opposition since day one of the incumbent government and first of all they had set a deadline of December 2019 and Maulana had organized long march and staged sit in at Islamabad but he had returned back after failing to achieve his goals, he said.

While rejecting opposition’s propaganda about rigging in by-polls in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh, Umar said majority of the seats on which by elections held were the seats of Pakistan Muslim League-N and Pakistan Peoples Party in Punjab and Sindh where they had won these seats with low margin and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf had secured more votes than it had obtained in 2018 general elections.

He said out of the two seats of KP, one seat was of PTI and one of the opposition from which PTI had won opposition’s seat but lost its own.