Islamabad:
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday that the government would unveil the Ramazan rescue package this year without the role of public services stores aimed at preventing corruption and distribution of low -quality basic products to the people.
“While Saint Ramazan is about to start, I asked the Ministry of National Food Security to cause a Ramzan package without public service stores [Corporation (USC)] To prevent the corruption and the sale of poor quality materials. I had asked several months ago that this could not continue with public service stores, “said the Prime Minister in his remote opening remarks at the meeting of the federal cabinet chaired by him.
He told members of the cabinet that last year, the government had received numerous complaints concerning the execution of the Ramazan package by public service stores. Consequently, the government has designed a solution to provide installation less public service stores.
The Prime Minister ordered the immediate measures to operationalize the port of Gwadar on a commercial basis and asked for the training of a committee under the chairmanship of the Minister of Planning Ahsan Iqbal to work with all stakeholders to transform it into A modern and fully functional port.
Iqbal gave a detailed briefing on the port of Gwadar at the meeting of the cabinet.
The Prime Minister also directed the organization of an international conference to raise awareness of the importance of the port of Gwadar. “A complete marketing and awareness strategy should be designed and diplomatic efforts concerning the port of Gwadar must be accelerated.”
He also asked for details on imports and exports carried out via the port of Gwadar. The meeting was informed that the port of Gwadar had the capacity to provide profitable and economical access in time to the Persian Gulf for ships up to 50,000 thousands of dead weights (DWT) and to facilitate the Transith to the Gulf countries .
In addition, the port was to play a vital role in the development of the mining and aqua-culture sectors in the province of Baloutchistan. The western parts of China and the Central Asian States would also benefit from this port.
The meeting was also informed that the free area of Gwadar had been exempt from all federal, provincial and local taxes and that the rules of the free zone had been finalized.
It was revealed that between 2018 and 2022, criminal negligence was shown concerning dredging in the port of Gwadar which seriously affected its depth. However, dredging was completed in 2022-23, after which its depth was restored. All the necessary public services services had now been provided at the port of Gwadar, it was added.
The meeting was also informed of several public well-being projects in Gwadar, notably the Pak-China Friendship hospital, the Gwadar Institute of Technical Education, the Pak-China Primary School, the Gwadar Livelihood Project, the Gwadar Fisheries Processing and Export Zone and Gwadar Solar Park.
The Prime Minister was informed that the government was also trying to link Gwadar to the main cooking recipes on the main line of railways in Pakistan
The Gwadar-Cquerta motorway was completed in 2018, benefiting from areas such as Turbat, Hoshab and Panjgur. In addition, the remaining sections of the M-8 motorway (Gwadar-Hoshab-Rato Dero) were under construction to connect Gwadar to Sukkur.
To further improve the connectivity of Gwadar-Conquetta, the Nokundi-Mashkhel route was under construction, while work on the Mashkhel-Panjgur road would start soon, it was said.
The work on the Gwadar East Bay motorway was carried out at fast speed while the work on Gwadar Safe City was completed in collaboration with the Balutchistan government.
The Minister proposed to modernize the inspection installations of goods from the port of Gwadar and to use artificial intelligence for this purpose. The Prime Minister appreciated the briefing.
About the launch of the Drive of Polio vaccination, he mentioned the murder of a policeman Abdul Khaliq in Jamrud who was deployed on the security of the Polio team and paid tribute to his sacrifice to make the Pakistan a nation without polio.
He also welcomed the services of the PM coordinator on health Dr Mukhtar, Polio coordinator, Dr Ayesha Farooq, secretary of health and polio vaccinators for their tireless efforts to rid the country of this paralyzing disease.
By assessing Monday the members of the cabinet of his Quetta visit, the Prime Minister said that he had visited the hospital to inquire about the security personnel who had been injured in an anti-terrorist operation in Kalat in which 18 members of the Security staff were martyred and 23 terrorists were eliminated.
“I met the injured. They were in high morale and were even ready to sacrifice their lives for the country.
It is the martyrs and the Ghazis who are resolved to rid the country of terrorism and to strive day and night for the cause, “he said.
The Prime Minister said that military, police, FC and rangers sacrificing their lives really brought the weight of ram policies from a government to the past when thousands of terrorists have been released.
The members of the cabinet also offered Fateha for the martyred security personnel as well as the police officer depending on the polio.
The Prime Minister expressed his pleasure in inflation reaching a nine -year hollow at 2.4%, compared to 28.73% on one month to another.
He congratulated the whole nation, the members of the cabinet, in particular the Minister of Finance, his team, FBR and others for their efforts in the past 11 months to bring inflation to the lowest level.
“Now, we are fully striving to head for economic growth … This is the main challenge. All our energies will focus on economic growth. Like other targets, we will also succeed,” he resolved.
He told members of the cabinet that on Monday, the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman sent a delegation to Pakistan and the two parties signed an agreement under which the kingdom would provide oil of an annual value of 1.2 billion Dollars in delayed payment.
In addition, the Saudi development fund will also offer a loan for a $ 40 million water supply program in Manshra.
He said that the whole nation would observe the day of cashmere solidarity on Wednesday to express his solidarity with their cashmered brothers.
Prime Minister Shehbaz also praised the approval of agricultural income tax by the four provinces in accordance with the IMF condition and thanked the ministers in chief, President Asifi Ali Zardari, the Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Mian Nawaz Sharif Sharif for their support in this regard.
