Overview
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif presided over the groundbreaking of a new mass transport system in Gujranwala, calling it a public relief “gift” from Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz.
- Maryam announced a Rs30 billion programme in Gujrat with new sewerage lines and 120,000 houses, and said metro bus projects would begin soon in Gujranwala and Faisalabad.
- Shehbaz linked recent Punjab by-poll outcomes to voter trust, asserted a mandate to serve for three years, and predicted “historic results” for PML-N in the next general election.
- He credited Nawaz Sharif with making Pakistan a nuclear power and argued the result of the May conflict with India would have been different without that capability.
- He praised visible smog reduction in Lahore and, alongside Maryam, highlighted hospitals, housing and motorways while criticizing the previous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for lacking development.