Bilawal slams 'changing of CPEC route'.

QUETTA -- PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday maintained that the people of Balochistan had been deprived from reaping the benefits of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) by changing the route of the project.

'We [PPP] brought revolutionary projects like CPEC that was meant for you, the people of Balochistan, [particularly] the residents of Gwadar... it was supposed to create job opportunities for you and strengthen your economy,' the scion of the Bhutto dynasty said while addressing convention of the party's activists in the provincial capital.

QUETTA, December 15: Chairman Pakistan People's Party (PPP) @BBhuttoZardari addressed the Workers' Convention here on Sunday. President PPP Balochistan Ali Madad Jatak and other party leaders were also present. pic.twitter.com/SkAHEyP3ml

'Unfortunately, unlike the vision of [former] president Zardari who wanted that the project should benefit the most impoverished areas... that the route should start from [erstwhile] Fata to Balochistan, the route has been changed. Now it's starting from Lahore and Sindh,' he added.

'These selected puppets [incumbent government] cannot provide you with those benefits.'

The PPP chairman further said his party's government had given Balochistan and other provinces control over their own resources through the 18th Constitutional Amendment and also introduced the Aghaz-e-Haqooq Balochistan package for the development of the province.

'Regrettably, the rulers now are not implementing these schemes,' Bilawal maintained.

The PPP chairman said his party was the only one that ensured that a project benefitted the residents of the area where it was launched.

'We empowered the citizens of Thar through the Thar coal power project,' he cited an example, adding that the women there were now working in various capacities ranging from from truck drivers to civil engineers.

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