Staff Report
SUKKUR: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday called for promoting public-private partnership to take the country forward in its journey to development.
Public-Private Collaboration
Addressing a ceremony after inaugurating the much-delayed 306-kilometre-long Hyderabad-Sukkar motorway (M-6), the premier said that all federating units (Punjab, Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir) should equally be treated and given funds so that the dream of the founding father, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali, could materialize.
He said that with the construction of the motorway, motorists and commuters will have a hassle-free journey. The prime minister said that the Hyderabad-Sukkur motorway, which was delayed for almost five years after the ouster of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government led by his elder brother and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, will be completed in 30 months.
Shehbaz said that he will not compromise on the quality of work.
The prime minister said that more was needed to be done to rehabilitate flood victims in Sindh, where some areas are underwater with people reeling under freezing temperatures.
He also said that Gwadar port will so be made operationalised so that Pakistan could have an alternate avenue to export and import things.
