National dialogue be held for creation of new provinces: PM

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
National dialogue be held for creation of new provinces: PMSHUJABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on
Saturday that said a national dialogue must be held to evolve consensus for new province but it should not be used as mere election
slogan.Addressing a public gathering here after inaugurating Multan-Shujabad section of Sukkur-Multan Motorway (M-5), the prime minister
said many other countries had also created new provinces.He was accompanied by Governor Punjab Muhammad Rafiq Rajwana and Minister for Water
Resources Javed Ali Shah.The prime minister earlier unveiled the plaque of the project what he said had been completed a year ahead of
schedule.The Sukkur-Multan Motorway is part of Karachi-Lahore Motorway Project and is being constructed under China-Pakistan Economic
Corridor (CPEC) that would cost Rs 294 billion.Work on the motorway was started in 2016 and is scheduled to complete by 2019
It is a 6-lane access controlled facility, taking off from Sukkur and terminating at Multan, after passing through several major cities
including Ghotki, Rahim Yar Khan, Sadiqabad and Bahawalpur.The prime minister told the gathering that those who had now been calling for
people were just cheating the people and challenged them to prove their performance during their respective tenures with that of the PML-N
government in all sectors.He said the whole political elite should join heads on the issue of new provinces and other national issues as the
politics of blackmailing and impersonation would not work anymore.He said the present government had delivered even beyond its commitments
and besides it own projects, it had also accomplished the half-complete projects of previous government that had been lingering for
decades.He said the previous governments too had same resources but failed to deliver.During the last five years, the government had
executed record projects, comparing with the last 65 years.It had added around 10,400MW to national grid, comparing with 20,000 MW generated
since creation of Pakistan.