Saturday, April 7, 2012

Nawaz Sharif vows to promote IT, build dams to generate electricity

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi

Former Prime Minister, Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, who heads his own faction of the Pakistan Muslim League, known as PML-N, has vowed to pay special attention to solving the energy crisis, if his party was voted to power in the upcoming general elections, expected to be held later this year.

“After coming to power the PML-N government will give special attention to solve the energy crisis which has brought life to a standstill in the country. For this purpose we will build small dams and set up gas fired power plants to provide electricity at reasonable rates to the people,” Nawaz Sharif stated while talking to Zahid Hameedi of MHz TV Network US, in a recent interview in Lahore.

He said that the PML-N has formulated plans to promote Information Technology and Technical and Vocational education at all levels which will help fight unemployment in the country.

“By promoting education we will be able to export trained manpower to the Middle East and other countries. Our youth has enormous talent. We need to provide the platform to let them develop technical skills so that they secure good jobs,” the former Prime Minister added.

To a question, the PML-N chief said that his party will also introduce reforms in the transport sector like mass transit system in order to provide cheap transportation to the public.

“Transportation holds the key to business activities. The government has to take care of the people and we are committed to facilitate them at all levels. We have done it before and we will do it again,” he promised.

Nawaz Sharif stated that his party, PML-N, has decided not to enter into an alliance with PPP and PML-Q, nor will it make any seat adjustment with these two parties in the coming elections. He, however, hinted that the party could consider seat adjustment with JUI-F and Jamaat-i-Islami in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa.

“People are hankering for change and Inshallah the PML-N government will strive sincerely to improve the lot of the common people as in the past,” the former Prime Minister concluded.

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