SAHIWAL: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Thursday said his government’s performance would wash away all the baseless allegations by the opposition, which was impeding nothing but the country’s progress.
“They are not impeding or attempting to foil me. They are attempting to obstruct the country’s progress. We will not allow them to affect our pace. People will distinguish between the negative and corrupt elements and those who delivered,” he told the inauguration ceremony of the first unit of the Sahiwal coal power plant.
With a total capacity of 1320 megawatt, the project comprises two coal-based power plants of 660MW each. This is one of the early harvest projects of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). It has been completed in a record 22 months period, six months ahead of the prescribed schedule.
The first unit has already been connected to the national grid since May 12 this year while the second unit will be connected during the current month.
Nawaz Sharif told the gathering that he had no time to respond the unfounded accusations of the opposition rather left it up to the people to decide as all of his focus would be on the people’s uplift. “Now, work (on the development projects) has started and it will not stop,” the prime minister said, and added that the government had planned to allocate a record budget for development works in next fiscal year as the people would listen to Finance Minister Ishaq Dar delivering the annual budget speech in the National Assembly on Friday.
