Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government will honour its pledge of creating South Punjab province.

Presiding over a meeting at South Punjab Secretariat in Multan on Sunday, he said the PTI government strongly believes in ensuring equal development in all areas of the region.

On this occasion, different secretaries of south Punjab secretariat gave a briefing on uplift projects, being carried out in the region.

The Foreign Minister said allocation of 35 percent budget for south Punjab is a beginning of a new era of development in south Punjab.

He said the government will ensure complete spending of the earmarked money at the uplift projects announced in the budget.

Source: Radio Pakistan