PML-N committed to CPEC, says senior leader

Hyderabad: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) is committed to the multi-billion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a top leader said.

PML- N Secretary General, Ahsan Iqbal maintained that his party was among the pioneers of the CPEC from the Pakistani side.

Speaking at a ‘meet the press program’ here at the Hyderabad press club, he reminded that the PML-N had undertaken major development projects including Karachi-Hyderabad Motorway, Multan- Sukkur Motorway, Thar Coal projects, Green Line project and Metro project in Sindh and Punjab under the CPEC during its last tenure from 2013-2018.

Ahsan Iqbal stated PML-N was organizing workers conventions in Sindh to put focus on the province.

He mentioned that the Hyderabad press club was a historic media club which had played an important role in the movements for restoration of democracy in the country and PML-N believed in freedom of media in letter and spirit.

Ahsan Iqbal was accompanied by PML-N provincial leaders Sayed Shah Muhammad Shah, Qamaruz Zaman Rajper and a Sikh member of Punjab Assembly.