CPEC to bring development opportunities in country: Asad Qaiser

Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser says China Pakistan Economic Corridor will bring development across the four provinces and it will also generate employment opportunities in the country.

He said this while talking to Senators, Members of National Assembly, Minister and members of Provincial Assembly belonging to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa who called on him in Islamabad on Wednesday.

The Speaker said the members of National and Provincial Assemblies should put forth suggestions to trickle down the effects of CPEC at the lowest ebb. He further added that by giving legal rights and autonomy to smaller provinces, we will eliminate the deprivation the people of smaller provinces.

Asad Qaiser said that masses have elected us to bring welfare in their lives, to create peaceful society and to improve the economy of the country.

He said the nation has rendered a lot of sacrifice in the war against terrorism and there is not a single home in KP, which was not affected economically and socially by the war against terrorism.

On this occasion, the Minister of Finance KPK Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra briefed the participants regarding the Net Hydel Profit which is rewarded to KP province. The participants also mentioned that KPK has lot of tourist places and it needs the attention of the federal as well provincial government.