The National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain has said that all democratic institutions are functioning successfully, and the parliament will complete its constitutional tenure for the first time in the history of the country.
Addressing a big public meeting in the village of Korepure on Sunday evening, he added the government was serving the people with missionary zeal and making all out efforts to resolve the people's problems.
The speaker said the government was mobilising billions of rupees to banish backwardness and poverty and to provide basic facilities to the masses in far-flung areas of the country. The development work on big and medium projects was being carried out for bringing revolutionary changes in social set-up of the country, he asserted.
The facilities of telecommunication, Sui gas, electricity, health, education and communication had been provided to remote and ignored rural areas for the first time, he said. Chaudhry Amir Hussain further said that the government wanted to develop backward areas and to bring them at par with the developed areas of the country.
He underscored the need for making collective efforts for purging politics from corruption and nepotism and for promoting democracy and unity among different groups of the society. The speaker said the government had adopted numerous measures for curtailing the ratio of unemployment through the establishment of maximum industries aimed at generating the employment opportunities in the country.
He said that vocational training institutions were being set up at Tehsil and district headquarters produce skilled persons that would meet the requirements of the industrial sector.