Overview
- Pakistan’s prime minister led the groundbreaking of the Gujranwala Mass Transit System, a 31.2‑kilometre corridor budgeted at Rs63 billion and slated for completion in 12 months.
- Shehbaz Sharif said ongoing development would deliver “historic” results for the PML-N in the next general election and asserted the party has a three-year mandate to serve.
- He linked recent Punjab by-poll outcomes to public confidence in PML-N leadership and urged continued work under Nawaz Sharif.
- Referencing the May border conflict, Shehbaz credited Nawaz Sharif’s 1998 nuclear tests with strengthening deterrence and called them a defining national achievement.
- Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz announced metro projects for Gujranwala and Faisalabad, a Rs30 billion sewerage overhaul in Gujrat, and construction of 120,000 houses, while touting economic stabilization and criticizing KP’s development record.