KARAK: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has claimed that the government will soon overcome price hike.

He was addressing the inauguration ceremony of the phase-II of a gas supply project, and a water supply scheme in Takht-i-Nusrati tehsil here Saturday.

Mahmood Khan said Rs5.5 billion had been approved for gas supply to all residents of Karak district. He said the water supply scheme in Takht-i-Nusrati would be completed with a cost of Rs720 million. He said that the provincial government was going to inaugurate ration cards from December.

Mahmood Khan alleged that the sugar mills of Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif had hoarded sugar, leading to a rise in its price, which he said would be lowered soon. He said that developmental projects worth Rs24 billion were underway in Karak and added that a new era of progress would be ushered with the completion of the Peshawar-DI Khan Motorway.

The chief minister claimed that the southern districts would be made a hub of development in the next five years.

Earlier in his address, federal minister for communication Murad Saeed came down hard on the opposition parties and claimed that 11 political parties could not compete with Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.

He declared that the opposition was a group of corrupt and politically unemployed politicians. He insisted that the planned long march on Islamabad of the opposition parties would fail.

MNA Shahid Khattak thanked the guests for visiting Karak.

Published in Dawn, November 14th, 2021