CM discusses uplift schemes, wheat shortage, locust attacks, increasing polio cases with PM.

KARACH -- Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in his meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan at Governor House on Monday afternoon discussed a number of issues, including development schemes, wheat shortage, locust swarm attacks, increasing polio cases and threat of Coronavirus.

The prime minister assured the chief minister that all these issues would resolved on top priority basis.

The chief minister discussing development schemes told the prime minister that some of the important projects of the province were pending in Planning and Development Ministry. He added that the on-going federal government projects in Karachi were also moving slow. At this the prime minister said that he would directed Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umer to expedite the process of Sindh government's schemes. As far as the federal schemes going on slow in Karachi, the prime minister assured the chief minister that they would be completed at the earliest.

Another issue Sindh Chief Minister discussed with the prime minister was locust swarm which have wreaked havoc with the standing crops in the country, particularly in Sindh. The chief minister said that it was high time to destroy them in the desert area where they have settled for breeding. He added that their breeding would start as and when desert would receive rains.

Prime Minister Imran Khan said that he would directed his Plant Protection department to take necessary measures and start aerial spray in eth desert areas. The chief minister proposed to hire aircrafts from China and UAE so that action could be taken in time. The prime minister directed concerned federal government department to take emergent measures and start spray.

In the meeting between the two, the matter of increasing polio cases, were also discussed on which the prime minister expressed serious reservations. The chief minister said that the polio virus was not only crippling our children but...