Communications Ministry: ‘Workers to be regularised in 10 days’

ISLAMABAD: The process to regularise employees working in the communications ministry will be completed within 10 days, Communications Minister Dr Arbab Alamgir Khan said on Saturday. During a meeting at Parliament House, he asked the senate standing committee for communications to provide funds for the construction of link roads to Gwadar Port. In reply, the committee chair, Muhammad Ismail Buledi, said that the prime minister had assured them that there would be no cut in funds allocated for the Balochistan road network. The minister said that the Asian Development Bank will loan funds for the construction of a road between Hasan Abdal and Mansehra and added that 14 projects were currently in progress in the province.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 17^th, 2011.