Centre restores projects scrapped by previous govt, claims 'N' lawmaker.

MANSEHRA -- Parliamentary Secretary for Interior and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MNA Mohammad Sajjad Awan on Sunday said the federal government would complete the development schemes scrapped by the previous Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government.

'We have resumed work on all such projects initiated by our party's previous government in Hazara division and rest of the country, and scrapped by the PTI government,' he said while speaking at the inaugural ceremony of a natural gas project in Pulrah area of Tanawal.

Mr Awan said former prime minister Nawaz Sharif had inaugurated natural gas projects for Oghi, Balakot and Tanawal areas in 2017, but the PTI government scrapped them after coming into power.

He said the federal government had also approved the Mansehra-Muzaffarabad Motorway. 'Our government believes in serving people through such development projects, which create employment opportunities for them,' Mr Awan said.

He insisted PML-N patron Nawaz Sharif was the only leader, who could pull the country out of the current economic crisis. 'Mr Sharif didn't care about the international hue and cry when Pakistan carried out nuclear tests in 1998, and pulled the country out of the economic turmoil triggered by international sanctions, and would also...

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