Islamabad: The prime minister espresso “full confidence” in the bosses of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), a member of the sentence coalition, on Monday, one day after Chaudhrys of Gujrat met President of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). Shehbaz Sharif amid opposition efforts to show distrust vote against Imran Khan in the National Assembly.
Sharif met former prime minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Punjab Assembly President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, once confidants of the Sharif family after a period of 14 years as part of their efforts to collect support for the vote drive out Khan.
Those with knowledge of the meeting told Pakistan Today that the meeting lasted for over an hour during which the opposition leader of the National Assembly searched for the PML-Qs support.
Sharif noted that the party while being an ally of the Pakistani governments Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). in the Center e in Punjab, express on various occasions worries over its policies. It was time “to do a decision”, He would tell the hosts.
However, today, Khan, who addressed the International Symposium on Hydroelectric development of Pakistan in Global Perspective, appeared unperturbed from the meeting.
Minister for Water resources Moonis Elahi insured the government “we should don’t worry about these meetings ”, il prime minister She said. Hey, who and the son of Pervez, it was also in presence e also spoke first of Khan.
“Those who They are worried [about their political future] they are holding meetings with Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and inquiring about his health, “he said added.
Khan said he had no doubts about the Q-League leaders and his own party it was not concerned [about the meetings] at all”.
Workers of his party He had become “battle-hardened “because of the difficulties they had gone through in the last 25 years old, the prime minister affirmed.
He said the dams in construction would do it double the water storage capacity e help addressing issues related to climate change.
He said China built 5,000 dams, but Pakistan only had two and they too were built in the 60s.
“Due to official neglect, Pakistan has suffered [water] losses. Since it uses imported fuel for electricity generation, whenever gasoline prices go up up in the international Electricity markers also rise in Pakistan and the tax burden increases on the public”He said.
“If we had generated hydroelectricity, we would not have done it faced the present price excursions triggered from an increase in fuel prices, “he said added.
Pakistan enjoyed enormous potential for hydroelectricity but it was producing half of his electricity needs from the furnace oil, he said, sadly adding for lack of long term planning, the nation was facing the problems he was experimenting now.
He noted that China was doing quickly progress and its greatest strength has been long-term planning. “They don’t think in terms of elections every five years. I am proud that ours government he is planning rather than thinking about elections in the long run ”.
“Today we celebrate the decade of dams. We need water storage “, the prime minister he said, observing problems arose among the provinces why of water problems.
Khan asked: “Like ours population is in increase, we must cultivate more Earth. If there is no storage space how can we cultivate the land? “
“We have a fertile land in Dera Ismail Khan and us alone need water. If we organize the water for will land there, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will not need import food or grain from other provinces.
Possessed Baluchistan millions of acres of uncultivated land and if we can get water, we can export cotton and other crops. The earth is also available in Thar, “he said.
The use of tunnel technology for dams were needed for Pakistan. The mountains of Pakistan was unmatched in the world and could help generate huge tourism revenue, he said.
The mountainous area of Switzerland was half in dimension of the northern areas of Pakistan but it was generating revenue of 60-70 billion dollars from tourism alone. Switzerland had the latest tunnel technology which made their mountainous areas very accessible, he observed.
The prime minister said the Kalabagh Dam was a good site but the people of Sindh should be convinced of this, otherwise the anti-Pakistani forces would instigate them on the issue.
“We have to scientifically explain that the dam will be beneficial for they. We are a federation and we should try to take the provinces with us,” he added.
