No development in PTI govt sans renaming Nawaz Sharif's era projects: Marriyum
Pakistan
Marriyum Aurangzeb said the nation fully knew how the PTI government ruined the national economy.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Wednesday said Imran Khan-led government had closed down several projects of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s previous government and even renamed some of them which were inaugurated by the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
“The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf regime changed the name of the PML-N’s era Youth Programme with Kamyab Jawan Programme and shelved 80 per cent of its projects,” she said while addressing a news conference flanked by Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Youth Affairs Shaza Fatima Khawaja.
Nawaz Sharif, as the prime minister, had launched the Prime Minister’s Youth Programme in 2013 to provide employment opportunities to young people, she added.
“No ruler can achieve the objective of development by affixing their own nameplates on the existing projects,” the minister said sarcastically. The projects became successful if the same were launched with a focus on people’s welfare, she added.
Marriyum said the PTI government would not have sent its political opponents to death cells in jails by filing fake cases if it had anything to do with political norms and values.
She said the nation fully knew how the PTI government ruined the national economy during its four-year tenure. It would have been better for the country had Imran Khan invited the heads of international firms to the Prime Minister’s House instead of (Daily Mail’s) David Rose to hatch a conspiracy against PM Shehbaz Sharif.
The minister said the PTI’s “propaganda group” was imposed on the country in 2018, which did not launch even a single new project for the country’s development and people’s welfare. Now, the same people were out to create chaos and political instability in the country to divert people’s attention from their four-year misrule marred by incompetency, inefficiency, theft, and corruption.
They were the people, who had tried to make the Youth Programme controversial at its launch by describing it as a political gimmick, Marriyum recalled.
She said PM Shehbaz Sharif revived the Prime Minister’s Youth Programme after taking charge of the office, with Shaza Fatima Khawaja assigned its responsibility as SAPM. It was being restarted while keeping in view the problems being faced by the youth in different sectors, she added.
Under the programme, small and large loans were also being revived, which were closed by the previous government, and the step would help provide job opportunities to over 50 million youth, between the age of 15 to 29 years, the minister said.
