In his maiden speech after being elected as Balochistan’s chief minister, Sarfraz Bugti has highlighted three primary challenges facing the province, adding that his government would “provide a roadmap to navigate these”.

Speaking in the Balochistan Assembly, Bugti identified those challenges as governance, climate change and terrorism. He said there was “no difference of opinion” on the difficult challenges the province had to overcome.

For governance, the PPP leader said that there was a need for the members of the government to accept and address the issue, in addition to working with the province’s bureaucracy. He said they would have to tackle the challenge of “ghost schools” to help provide education for the “province’s poor children who freeze in the cold and sweat in the heat”.

Bugti added that the province continued to suffer from the climate change crisis “despite having negligible responsibility in creating it”.

Furthermore, the CM said he would employ the tool of dialogue, as par with the PPP’s policy, to deal with terrorism. However, he said that “writ of the state would not be compromised” when it came to terrorist attacks.