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SIALKOT, Sept 16: Exports from Sialkot have increased to $1 billion from $850 million by virtue of the effective trade policies of the government.
Punjab Industries Minister Muhammad Ajmal Cheema said this while talking to newsmen here on Saturday. District nazim Muhammad Akmal Cheema was also present.
The minister urged the exporters to focus on diversification of traditional to non-traditional items and exploring new world markets.
Ajmal Cheema said the chief minister had released Rs12 billion for construction of the Rs20 billion Sialkot-Lahore motorway project. He said work on the project had been started and would complete by the end of 2007.
He said the Punjab government would soon establish two new small industrial estates near Pasrur and Kamoki along the Sialkot-Lahore motorway.
CABLE OPERATORS: The district government has failed to prevent cable operators from airing anti-Pakistan Indian movies in bordering villages.
Talking to this correspondent, local leader Pir Anwar Shah Qalandar and people of Oora, Khuraney, Nandipur, Sabzpeer, Nandipur, Kingra, Bajra Garhi, Umraanwali and Harpal complained that cable operators were continuously telecasting Indian obscene and anti-Pakistan movies through their illegal channels.
Meanwhile, a group of residents said the authorities concerned have failed to remove the prolonged fault in PTV’s booster near Pasrur.
BORDER AREAS: The chief minister has released special development fund of Rs3 billion to the district government for the uplift of border areas of Chawinda and Pasrur along the Sialkot Working Boundary.
Punjab Minister for Labour and Human Resources Syed Akhtar Hussain Rizvi and District Nazim Akmal Cheema, during a visit to Pindi Baagho, Pasrur tehsil, on Saturday, said the government would soon establish four new degree colleges, three inter colleges in Pasrur’s border areas, besides upgrading more than 100 government educational institutions and establishing a stadium.
