World : Pakistan Prime Minister terms
Pak-China economic corridor as future of world
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said that the Pakistan-China economic corridor will open up the underdeveloped areas of the country to a new era of economic development and prosperity by connecting the maximum number of population through a network of highways and railways.
He expressed these views while taking a briefing from the officials of Ministries of Planning, Communications and Railways at the Pakistan Secretariat.
Terming the Pak-China economic corridor as the future of the world, the prime minister said that three billion people, which is almost half of the world’s population, from China, South Asia, Central Asia could benefit from this economic corridor and added that it should be so designed that maximum number of people of the country could benefit from it.
The prime minister was briefed at length about the proposed alignments and lines from Khunjerab to Gwadar that are to be constructed as part of the Pakistan-China economic corridor.
Putting great emphasis on ensuring quality of work and transparency, he directed the concerned authorities to explore more options keeping in view the factors of terrain, population and social cost of the project in the form of population dislocation while drawing the areas through which this corridor will be passing.
The prime minister said that the Lahore-Islamabad Motorway should be taken as a model and that its quality and standard need to be kept in view while constructing the Pak-China economic corridor.
Taking a strong exception to the poor condition of motorways and roads in the country, he said that motorways, highways and road networks are national assets and their repair and maintenance must be given the top-most priority.
He further said that we should have constructed many more motorways till now but lamented the fact that development of roads and motorways had been a low priority area in the country. He said that projects had never been completed on time and not completing them on time had almost become a national character. “Without setting our priorities right and without moving in the right direction, we cannot attain the goal that we have in our mind for the people of Pakistan,” the prime minister added.
Expressing his dissatisfaction over the briefing, the prime minister gave one week to the Ministry of Communications to complete its work and ordered to arrange a follow-up briefing after that.
He further directed the ministries of communications, railways and planning to keep their homework up-to-date to take the process of cooperation with China on the Pak-China economic corridor to next level of implementation. He also gave his approval in principle for the restructuring of the Planning and Development Division. Under the restructuring plan, the Planning Division will get the status of a think tank for the highest policy input and the Ministry of Planning and Development will be renamed as Planning, Development and Reforms Division.
Minister for Finance Muhammad Ishaq Dar, Minister for Information Pervaiz Rashid, Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal, Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafiq, Special Assistant to the PM Tariq Fatimi and senior officials of the Ministries of Planning, Railways and Communications attended the briefing.
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