People first think and than talk on issues: PM Nawaz

PM also mentioned peace in Karachi and Balochistan as examples of his government’s achievements ahead of NA-122 by-election.

Foreign Office officials here said the meeting will give Sharif a chance to rebut India’s assertion that Pakistan is disturbing regional peace and sponsoring terrorism, the Nation newspaper reported.

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has appointed a commission to investigate a US airstrike in northern Kunduz city that destroyed a hospital and killed at least 22 people, his spokesman said on Saturday. The prime minister was addressing the ground-breaking ceremony of 1,180MW Bhikki Power Plant in Sheikhupura on Friday. “We could have formed government in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KP) easily with a little bit of maneuvering”, said Nawaz. He called upon farmers to ask those opportunistic politicians opposed to the package why their lives were being ruined. The spokesman said Sharif termed the Kashmir issue as the unfinished agenda of the creation of Pakistan and contended that friendly relations between New Delhi and Islamabad without resolving Kashmir would be nothing but “self deceit”. He announced that power crisis will be over by 2018.

Earlier in the day, the prime minister presided over a meeting in Lahore in which he was briefed about the development projects including Orange Line train and metro bus services launched by the present government.

He said projects in the past have been plagued with kickbacks and for the first time there was an opportunity to complete a project at half the price of the NEPRA tariff. He said that various power projects like Bhasha Dam and Dasu Dam will generate 9,000 mega watts of electricity after completion.

Vice chairman PTI Shah Mehmood Qureshi said government has come down to adopt cheap tactics to rig re-election in Lahore.

“We are setting a new precedent in the country by saving national funds in all the projects”.