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All have to work hard for development of provinces: PM

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said all have to work hard for the development of all the provinces, poverty alleviation, and to eliminate unemployment.

He was chairing a high-level meeting in Karachi to discuss Public Sector Development Programme-related development projects in Sindh and outstanding issues between the federal and provincial governments.

The meeting was attended by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and his cabinet members, leaders of MQM-Pakistan and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F.

Shehbaz Sharif issued directives for early completion of K-IV bulk water project, construction of all the roads of the city’s industrial areas and financially support to the provincial government in the procurement of buses for BRT projects.

The prime minister assured the chief minister that the federal government would support the Sindh government.

The prime minister decided that the federal and provincial government ministers should sit together to hand over the control of the hospitals to the Sindh government and agreed that the provincial government was running these hospitals properly.

Source: Radio Pakistan