Buzdar spends eventful day in DG Khan.

DERA GHAZI KHAN -- We are bringing the backward areas of Punjab on a par with the developed areas of the province as I am the custodian of backward areas in Lahore.

Chief Minister Usman Khan Buzdar said in a media talk at Circuit House of Dera Ghazi Khan on Friday. Mr Buzdar said the government was establishing nine new hospitals besides increasing 9,000 beds altogether in hospitals of the province. He maintained that health budget had been increased by 27 percent. He said that he would come soon to inaugurate a cardiology hospital in Dera Ghazi Khan.

He added recruitment and promotions in the Baloch Levy and the border military police had been accomplished transparently. He announced the establishment of a journalists' colony at every divisional headquarters of the province.

On the issue of south Punjab province, he said the provincial secretariat of south Punjab would be established soon as secretaries and other staff had been appointed.

He said the headquarter of the newly-established Takht Sulaiman tehsil would be established with a consensus on the matter. Mr Buzdar...