Thursday, December 22, 2011

ANP to back resolution on Hazara province: minister

Minister of State for Health Sardar Shahjahan Yusuf Wednesday claimed that the Awami National Party would support the Hazara province resolution in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly.

Speaking at a press conference, he said that Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani had taken the ANP leader Asfandyar Wali on board on the issue. He said the Pakistan People’s Party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid and other political parties would also vote in favour of the Hazara resolution that would soon be tabled in the provincial assembly.

Sardar Shahjahan said the prime minister was already in contact with the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governments on the issue of creating more provinces in the country. He said that work on the Hazara Expressway would soon be inaugurated and would cost Rs47 billion as the Asian Development Bank had approved funds for the project. The minister said the commissioner Hazara division had removed the hurdles in the construction of the expressway and the compensation process for the landowners was in progress.

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