A file photo of Metro Bus. PHOTO: EXPRESS/ ZAHOORUL HAQ
Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, on Thursday, announced the decision to launch a Metro Bus Service in south Punjab’s Dera Ghazi Khan district.
“Our political rivals leveled false charges of corruption in the metro bus projects but they failed to appear in court and provide any evidence,” the chief minister said during his address in an apparent reference to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan.
“He has time to make speeches in Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa but he can’t appear in court,” Shehbaz continued, adding the PTI leader did not respond to the defamation notice sent to him for leveling ‘false allegations’ of corruption against the Punjab government.
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Besides announcing the launch of the bus service, the CM went on to announce various other development projects including cardio and kidney centres for the residents of DG Khan.
Regarding the availability of potable water, the chief ministers claimed that tenders for provision of clear drinking water will have been awarded by the end of the current year, adding that potable water will be available in the whole province by next year.
Taking a jibe at the PTI leader, Shehbaz said, “Imran used to calls us [Shehbaz Sharif and his brother Nawaz Sharif] ‘dengue brothers’ but now he is running away from it.”
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