April 21, 2022: Professor Ahsan Iqbal, federal minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives (PD&SI) assured Syed Murad Ali Shah, Chief Minister Sindh, that the federal government will support the provincial government of Sindh to complete its development projects.
The assurance came on Thursday during a meeting between CM Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah and Professor Ahsan Iqbal at the ministry. During the meeting, development projects under the Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) of Sindh province which includes K-4, Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) and Hyderabad-Sukkur Motorway were discussed in detail.
Speaking at the occasion, Professor Ahsan Iqbal assured CM Sindh to support the completion of the project particularly, KCR, Hyderabad-Sukkur Motorway and others. KCR is among the top priorities of the Prime Minister, he assured Murad Ali Shah.
The minister informed the CM Sindh that the success of the CPEC Thar project is an example of mutual cooperation adding that the construction work on the Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway needs to be expedited.
Furthermore, the minister said that nine Industrial Zones were supposed to be operational by 2020, but now the first Industrial Zone will be started in 2024, the second in 2025 and the third in 2027.
He said that the coalition government will tackle current challenges with mutual understanding: The challenge is big but we have to complete the projects in a stipulated time which remained neglected by the previous government, he added.
CM Murad Ali Shah said that the federal government has an experienced team that will deliver its result. “There was no progress on KCR as the previous government did not pay heed to the important project,” said Shah. The previous government deliberately ignored the development plans of Sindh due to political reasons as a result people of Sindh suffered a lot.
