KP Chief Minister Pervez Khattak Friday hinted at participating in All Parties Conference (APC) convened by Balochistan National Party (BNP) along with PTI chief Imran Khan and rejected the claim of the Planning Commission (PC) regarding the construction of eight industrial zones in the province under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Talking to media after addressing a public meeting at Hakimabad, district Nowshera, he said eight industrial zones, which the federal government is showing as part of the economic corridor, in fact is the own project of the PTI government started after proper planning. The chief minister said that for the success of these zones, the provincial government has also evolved a comprehensive industrial policy. Under the industrial policy, he said attractive incentives and facilities are also being offered by the provincial government to industrialists. One of these special zones, the chief minister said has been inaugurated recently in Hattar by himself.
The chief minister while terming the claim of the federal government as drama, saying the projects of which federal government is claimant are even in areas having no link with the corridor. One of such project, the chief minister said is also in district Chitral. Pervez Khattak said that he is still stick to his stance that in connection with CPEC, the federal government is hoodwinking Khyber Pakhtunkhawa and all benefits of the project are being granted to Punjab.
He said their stance on CPEC is crystal clear that facilities available to Punjab in the corridor should also be granted to the western route of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, adding that they will not believe in lip services any more. He said that the government has kept in dark for two and half years consecutively.
The chief minister said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have announced in All Parties Conference (APC) that work on western route will start first. But, later it came to our knowledge that neither there is any documentary proof nor any practical work was conducted on this route.
He said that they had told Federal Minister for Planning in equivocal terms that they are not interested in merely a road, rather Khyber Pakhtunkhawa and Balochistan will also be granted all those incentives and facilities which have been given to Punjab and all facilities including fibre optic, Sui gas and LNG should also be granted to our province. The meeting with Ihsan Iqbal, he said failed to address our reservations and nothing new came, which was promised by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
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