Roll up your sleeves as nation wants results: PM tells ministries

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif urged the ministries to put in a lot of effort to satisfy the expectations of the country and make a difference, cautioning against any complacency in carrying out the government’s reduction plan.

“I promise not to let my time go to waste, and I have no doubt you won’t either. Action and implementation are the only things that will change. “This is a matter of nation, its resources, and resolution of its issues; roll up your sleeves,” the prime minister remarked as he presided over the federal cabinet meeting.

He thanked the participants of his trips to Tajikistan and Kazakhstan and mentioned his contacts with international leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Similarly, he announced that he will convene another meeting on July 20 to examine the status of the follow-up of “very productive” discussions he held with Premier Li Qiang and Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to China, which he had convened a few days prior.

According to the prime minister, in an effort to stop the annual haemorrhage of Rs 80 billion, the government has started solarizing 28,000 tube wells in Balochistan. He also expressed gratitude to the chief minister of Balochistan and other pertinent agencies and ministries for moving the project forward to the implementation phase.

He informed the gathering that the finance ministry was assigned the $3.5 billion responsibility of developing a business plan for the nation’s one million tube wells that were now dependent on imported fuel for solarization.