KARACHI / THATTA / DHABEJI, July 15: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has laid the foundation stone of Sindh Government’s flagship priority project, Dhabeji Special Economic Zone. The project will involve an investment of more than $5 billion.
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that his party will spread the industrial revolution starting from Karachi and Thatta to the whole country, adding that now it has been proven that other parties are just talkers, but PPP is a party of action.
According to a statement issued by Media Cell Bilawal House, Chairman PPP, while addressing the foundation stone laying ceremony of the Dhabeji Special Economic Zone project to be built under Public Private Partnership, said that his party’s provincial government has started another milestone project today. He said that the Dhabeji Special Economic Zone will create more than 150,000 employment opportunities and help eradicate poverty and unemployment. He said that the Sindh government working under the leadership of Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has broken the myth created by a conspiracy against the party that the true political parties of the country have failed. “People have also seen the destruction in the name of change,” he added.
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that PPP was criticized even then, when President Asif Ali Zardari was making frequent visits to China during his tenure, adding that at that time it was said that the visits of the President put a burden on the country’s exchequer. “These were the visits of President Asif Ali Zardari, as a result of which the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project came into existence,” he contended.
Chairman PPP said that Public-Private Partnership was the vision of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, which is being carried forward by the Sindh Government. He said that projects like Karachi-Thatta Dual Carriageway, Jhirk Bridge on River Indus, and Thar Coal Mining project are successful and ahead-of-schedule projects completed under PPP mode, adding that the projects run by the Government of Sindh under PPP mode are recognized worldwide. “Sindh government’s PPP mode projects have been ranked 6th among the best projects in Asia,” he pointed out.
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, while referring to the unique performance of the Sindh government, said that in the public health sector, the existing projects in the form of NICVD, SIUT, GIMS, and emergency treatment for children with the collaboration of Child Life Foundation, Poverty Reduction Programme, measures taken during the Covid-19 pandemic and recent floods, people have seen the performance and now they have accepted that the role of PPP was earlier undermined.
He further said that when youth are given responsibility, they perform. He appealed to the people of the entire country, including the youth and the business community, to support the PPP and assured the people that when his party is successful in the upcoming general elections, it will perform in the same way as it has done for public health, infrastructure and development of Sindh.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, Information and Transport Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon, Minister for Local Government Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, Sindh Cabinet Members Gianchand Essrani, and Sajid Jokhio, Mayor Karachi Murtaza Wahab, Special Assistant to Chief Minister Sindh for Investment and Public Private Partnership Syed Qasim Naveed Qamar, MPA Ali Hassan Zardari, diplomats, senior government officials, business community representatives and dignitaries were also present.
The Dhabeji Special Economic Zone project to be built under a public-private partnership is the flagship priority project of the Sindh government situated at the gateway of the country with close proximity to main airport and two ports of the country.
