{"id":2874,"date":"2021-09-29T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2021-09-29T11:00:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T11:00:54","slug":"pm-imran-khan-declares-to-hold-investigation-into-corruption-carried-out-in-road-infrastructure-projects-in-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-imran-khan-declares-to-hold-investigation-into-corruption-carried-out-in-road-infrastructure-projects-in-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Imran Khan declares to hold investigation into corruption carried out in road infrastructure projects in the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has declared to hold investigation into the corruption carried out in road infrastructure projects in the past.<br \/>\nPerforming the groundbreaking of Jhal Jaho Bela road, in Islamabad on Wednesday, PM Imran Khan said the FIA has been mandated to expose the handful of elements that minted money through road projects.<br \/>\nThe Prime Minister pointed out that the road projects being executed by the present government are less in rates when compared with those completed in previous regimes. He said we are spending two hundred million rupees less on a four-lane road than the ones executed back in 2013. He said this demonstrates how much tax payers\u2019 money was plundered in the past. He assured to make the findings of the investigation public.<br \/>\nImran Khan reaffirmed the determination to ensure equitable development in order to make Pakistan strong. He said we are focussing on the development of backward areas to bring them at par with the developed ones.<br \/>\nThe Prime Minister especially stressed for improving connectivity in Balochistan saying this is vital for the development of the province as well as Pakistan.<br \/>\nIn his remarks, Minister for Communications Murad Saeed said the construction of Jhal Jaho Bela road is part of Prime Minister Imran Khan&#8217;s vision to uplift the backward areas. He said the road infrastructure projects in Balochistan are being completed on fast track basis.<br \/>\nChief Minister Balochistan Mir Jam Kamal Khan said both federal and provincial governments are working together for the development of Balochistan. He said we are ensuring timely completion of road infrastructure projects in the province so that the people can really benefit from them.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-imran-khan-says-centre-sindh-govt-must-work-together-for-karachi-development.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PM Imran Khan says centre &amp; Sindh govt must work together for Karachi development<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has declared to hold investigation into the corruption carried out in road infrastructure projects in the past. Performing the groundbreaking of Jhal Jaho Bela road, in Islamabad on Wednesday, PM Imran Khan said the FIA has been mandated to expose the handful of elements that minted money through road projects. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1274,1276,525,1243,180,138],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-karachi-development","tag-minister-for-communications-murad-saeed","tag-prime-minister-imran-khan","tag-sindh-govt","tag-balochistan","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}