Karachi visit: PM Shehbaz Sharif did not meet business community
PM Shehbaz Sharif paid a visit to Karachi but he did not meet the business community despite announcing to take steps for economic revival.
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has paid a day-long visit to Karachi, however, he did not meet the business community despite announcing to bring up special plans for the economic revival of the country.
The recent visit to Karachi paid by the newly-elected PM Shehbaz Sharif failed to bear the fruit as it was nothing more than a series of announcements and a political one.
During his visit, PM Sharif held meetings with the political leadership of Sindh including the top leaders of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah and his cabinet members, Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) leaders.
According to Radio Pakistan, He had said that all have to work hard for the development of all the provinces, poverty alleviation, and elimination of unemployment. He had also chaired a high-level meeting in Karachi to discuss Public Sector Development Programme-related development projects in Sindh and outstanding issues between the federal and provincial governments.
Shehbaz Sharif had issued directives for early completion of the K-IV bulk water project, construction of all the roads of the city’s industrial areas and financially support to the provincial government in the procurement of buses for BRT projects. The prime minister had assured the chief minister that the federal government would support the Sindh government.
The prime minister had decided that the federal and provincial government ministers should sit together to hand over the control of the hospitals to the Sindh government and agreed that the provincial government was running these hospitals properly.
The premier had also said that he will try to bring Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) project under the umbrella of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). He said the availability of comfortable transport facilities is another big challenge and efforts will be made to provide air-conditioned buses to the citizens of Karachi.
Moreover, he had also met MQM-P leaders at their Bahadurabad office in which he vowed implementation of the agreement’s item and sought the party’s support in the National Assembly (NA) speaker.
However, PM Sharif’s Karachi visit and meetings did not match with his economic revival announcement as he did not meet any personality from the business community nor hold any meeting with the office-bearers of Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), Federal of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) or any other trade leader.
