LAHORE: Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has said he will be working to ensure sustainable development in every city of the province to bring the backward areas on a par with the developed ones.

Talking to different delegations that called on him at his office on Sunday, the chief minister said the fate of every city would be changed to better in the ‘Naya Pakistan’. The cities that were ignored in the past would be provided with exemplary development funds, he added.

In the past, he said, development resources were spent only on a few cities and national interests were not prioritised.
He said the past rulers had left many cities of Punjab deprived under their “special agenda” and it was due to their wrong policies that the problems of common man kept on increasing.

Mr Buzdar said under a comprehensive strategy for equal growth of all regions proportional resources would be allocated in the next budget for the development of every city and every town in Punjab.

He said the era of plundering national resources had passed and added that Prime Minister Imran Khan had exposed “big idols of corruption”.

Published in Dawn, April 15th, 2019