GILGT: The Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker Jamil Ahmed has accused Islamabad of not taking on board the people of the region regarding construction of the Pak-China Economic Corridor through the Karakoram Highway.
Speaking during the question hour session of the house on Monday, he alleged that the multi-billion dollar project was being planned without taking GB people into confidence. He lamented that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during his recent visit to China signed various projects, including the Pak-China Economic Corridor, without consulting the main stakeholders.
“A representative of GB people should have been taken along the PM while touring China instead of Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif,” he regretted.
Jamil Ahmed said that the local people were not even taken into confidence when the USAID was asked to develop the tourism sector of the region. However, information and tourism minister Sadia Danish told the house that GB tourism policy would be finalised in consultations with the representatives of the local people.
Taking part in the debate, opposition leader Haji Janbaz Khan of PML-N said that former president Asif Ali Zardari took his son Bilawal Bhutto during his visit to China, and that some elements were only resorting to political point scoring by raising what he said the non-issue of who accompanied the prime minister during his foreign visits.
Meanwhile, speaking at the house, Chief Minister Syed Mehdi Shah said that as the central government had lifted ban on recruitments, 4, 000 new jobs in health, education and disaster management departments would be created very soon. He said that vacant posts in different departments would also be filled.
Meanwhile, the GBLA passed a unanimous resolution condemning the terrorist attack on JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman In another resolution, the assembly demanded of the federal government to provide diplomatic passports to GBLA speaker, deputy speaker, ministers, and advisers.
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