Federal Approves Sahiwal Motorway, Ignoring Sindh's Objections What's the Matter?

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00:00Moving on to the next story, we saw that in Lahore, Pakistan's People's Party and Muslim League Noon

00:07were sitting amongst each other.

00:09And according to the agreement between them in Punjab, which we haven't seen yet,

00:16the People's Party is not getting a share.

00:20And we see that the People's Party is complaining from time to time.

00:27Today, we have a special correspondent from Karachi, Sanjay Sadwani, who has broken the news.

00:33And that news is very important.

00:35And again, it is about the disputes between the People's Party and the Noon League.

00:41According to the news, despite the harsh allegations of Sindh,

00:45the federal government has approved the Lahore-Saiwal-Bahawalnagar motorway instead of the Sakhar-Hyderabad motorway.

00:52And has also reduced the amount required for it.

00:56The initial cost of the Lahore-Saiwal-Bahawalnagar motorway was Rs. 264.

01:03Now, the cost of the new motorway is Rs. 436 billion.

01:09And the Punjab government will invest half of it.

01:12Sanjay Sadwani, our special correspondent from Karachi, is with us.

01:17Sanjay, I was watching your story.

01:20You said that the Pakistan People's Party has talked about this in an ACT-NET meeting.

01:27You also raised objections.

01:29But they are not being recognized.

01:31And now, according to your news, the Sindh government has decided

01:35that they will engage Blawal Bhutto Zardari and Asif Ali Zardari.

01:40And they will tell them that there is a lot of injustice being done to them.

01:44We heard about the motorway issue from Chief Minister of Sindh, Mr. Murad Ali Shah.

01:51Accidents keep happening there.

01:53So, what is this story?

01:55Please explain this to us.

01:57Mr. Blawal and Mr. Asif Ali Zardari meet here in the federal government.

02:01They meet the Prime Minister and other people in the federal government.

02:06So, where is this miscommunication?

02:09Look, Mr. Khawar, this is a very important motorway of Sindh.

02:13If you come from Multan to Sukkur, you will get a good motorway.

02:17But as soon as you enter Sukkur, this road is very bad.

02:21But actually, this road is of Wafaa, National Highway Authority.

02:25From Sukkur to Hyderabad, when you start your journey from Islamabad or Peshawar,

02:31when you reach Sukkur, you will feel that there is a lot of destruction in Sindh.

02:35And the condition of Sindh is really bad.

02:37If we also want to go towards Larkana,

02:43because Sindh Uman 12 was saying that money should be kept for the Hyderabad-Sukkur motorway,

02:48and this should be accepted.

02:50The ACNIC meeting was held by the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Ishaq Dar.

02:54Before this, this matter was brought in the ACNIC meeting of Bahawalnagar Motorway.

02:59At that time, Jam Khan was a member from Sindh.

03:03He strongly objected and deferred this matter.

03:06In recent days, the permanent member of Sindh, Jam Khan,

03:10went to Saudi Arabia at that age.

03:12After that, the meeting took place.

03:14Instead of him, someone else from Sindh represented.

03:16And in this meeting, this motorway scheme was approved.

03:20But a big development has also emerged in this.

03:24This motorway, which is 295 km long,

03:26Lahore-Sahoyal-Bahawalnagar Motorway,

03:28when it was approved in 2023,

03:32its total cost was Rs. 264,000.

03:35And now, when it has been revised and approved by the ACNIC,

03:39its cost has increased to Rs. 436 billion.

03:42So, an increase of Rs. 1 billion has been made,

03:44and its approval has also been given by the ACNIC.

03:46Now, when you said in your intro

03:48that the Punjab government should give 50% share in this,

03:51the IMF has forbidden you to invest in such a big project from the morning,

03:58and not make it loyal.

04:00But no final decision has been made on this.

04:03Will the Punjab government give money or not?

04:05Okay, that's done. We understand that.

04:07Now, look, there is an issue of canals.

04:09We have evidence.

04:11Some meetings have taken place.

04:13President Asif Ali Zardari has also given his own ruling on the canals,

04:16if he agrees.

04:18Now, what is happening,

04:20I was listening to your news,

04:22that this complaint will be made through Mr. Bilawal and Mr. Asif Ali Zardari.

04:26I mean, when will the complaint be made?

04:29When all the matters are going on together.

04:31So, why didn't this matter be put forward earlier?

04:34Look, this matter,

04:36Mr. Khawar, many times before,

04:38the Sindh government has written a letter to Waqf-e-Jadid for the Hyderabad-Sakhar Motorway,

04:42that this motorway should be built.

04:44Now, when they have approved it through the ACNIC,

04:46then on behalf of the Sindh government,

04:48the members who were present in that meeting,

04:51they informed the Prime Minister that

04:53they have rejected our objections,

04:55and have approved a new motorway for Punjab.

04:57A new motorway has not been approved for Sindh.

05:00Rs. 1,275 billion has been approved in the last meeting.

05:07And for Sindh, Rs. 1.25 billion has been approved.

05:10In that too, the money has been allocated for the Sehla Mutasereen project.

05:15Yesterday, Hassan also broke a story

05:17that Rs. 9 billion will be kept at the disposal of Mr. Bilawal and Mr. Zardari.

05:20Hassan, I would like to ask you a question.

05:22Sanjay, I would like to ask you a question,

05:24that as soon as these approvals have been made,

05:27there is no new motorway.

05:29Both the motorways are part of the planning.

05:31That is, Vafak has to make this motorway,

05:33and that motorway has to be made.

05:35You are saying that Sakhar Hyderabad has to be made by Vafak,

05:39and the Sahiwal, Lahore-Sahiwal-Tabhalpur has to be made by Vafak.

05:43So this is their responsibility.

05:45But the choice they are making is

05:47where we will make the motorway first.

05:49So there is a big network.

05:51The structure of the motorway is already present in Punjab.

05:55In Sindh, I think, only one part of the motorway has come,

05:59till Sakharwar.

06:01And that too connects from Multan to Sakhar.

06:03I think that part is like this.

06:05So there was not much need

06:07that there would be more network in Sindh,

06:09not in Punjab.

06:11So they must have kept that position, right?

06:13This was the position of the people of Sindh.

06:16And this position was also kept in the ACNIC meeting

06:19that the things that are exported to the whole of Pakistan

06:23through the Karachi port,

06:25are supplied to the whole of Pakistan.

06:27This Hyderabad-Sakhar motorway

06:29is not only important for the people of Sindh,

06:31but also for the citizens of the whole of Pakistan,

06:33including Punjab.

06:35Those who travel from Sindh to Punjab

06:37know how important the Sakhar-Hyderabad motorway is.

06:41The Karachi that I am reporting now,

06:44I have to go to Larkana three times a year.

06:47To go to Larkana,

06:49I choose such a dangerous road

06:51because that road,

06:53this motorway road,

06:55which is near the NHA right now,

06:57that road is better than that,

06:59but its road is dangerous.

07:01Sanjay, the fundamental point,

07:03I also include Mr. Chaudhary in this.

07:05I also ask him questions.

07:07Then I come back to you.

07:09Mr. Chaudhary Ghulam Singh,

07:11everyone knows that this Sakhar motorway

07:13should be built.

07:15The Sindh government has been demanding for a long time.

07:17They are requesting the federal government

07:19to build this Sakhar motorway.

07:21Accidents are happening.

07:23A few days ago, there was a big accident.

07:25Mr. Murad Ali Shah again raised objections.

07:27The question that I will ask Sanjay later,

07:29and I also ask you, Mr. Chaudhary,

07:31this is a very important road.

07:33Doesn't Mr. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

07:35know about this road?

07:37Does President Asif Ali Zardari

07:39know about this road?

07:41Are you the president here for the second time?

07:43Or are you present in Islamabad?

07:45They don't know that

07:47meetings are being held in Islamabad.

07:49All the parties are present in Islamabad.

07:51Sessions are also being held.

07:53National Assembly, Senate meeting.

07:55And the party is not told.

07:57And this complaint is not heard.

07:59Or the party does not get

08:01that kind of importance.

08:03Because in Punjab,

08:05they have their own majority.

08:07The government of the People's Party

08:09cannot exist without the federal government.

08:11So, Mr. Chaudhary, what is happening?

08:13Sometimes it seems that these statements

08:15are coming from the media. Mr. Chaudhary?

08:17No, no, the consumption of media

08:19is necessary for the motorway

08:21to reach Karachi.

08:23First of all, it should be its priority.

08:25Whether anything else happens or not.

08:27Even now, by cancelling them,

08:29first of all, Sukkur to Hyderabad

08:31and Hyderabad to Karachi, whatever it is.

08:33End these problems.

08:35Because the entire lifeline

08:37of the country is in this.

08:39First you destroyed the railways.

08:41Now you are making a big deal out of this.

08:43If things can't go out or come in,

08:45what's the use of it?

08:47You can't do anything

08:49for your own personal

08:51and political entertainment.

08:53You can't do anything

08:55with this. Sanjay,

08:57the final question is

08:59This is a national plan.

09:01Sukkur, Hyderabad,

09:03Falfour,

09:05and the People's Party

09:07have not taken any action.

09:09All Pakistanis are for this.

09:11I want to ask you a question.

09:13Forcefully,

09:15why are you not able to keep this demand?

09:17The leadership of the People's Party

09:19in front of the federal government.

09:21Why are you not restricting them?

09:23Because Pakistan's overall budget

09:25is not a big budget.

09:27It cannot be built on the motorway

09:29and it is being ignored.

09:31The people of Sindh also think

09:33that the loyalty of the People's Party

09:35is based on the votes of the People's Party.

09:37The people of Sindh have mandated

09:39the loyalty of the People's Party

09:41on the issues of Sindh.

09:43Why is the People's Party

09:45doing this?

09:47This is what the people of Sindh

09:49are thinking.

09:51Hyderabad was ruled by the People's Party

09:53from 2008 to 2013.

09:55From 2013 to 2018,

09:57the People's Party was in the province.

09:59From 2018 to 2023,

10:01the People's Party was in the province.

10:03The last period after Imran Khan's

10:05was the period of PDM.

10:07This was not accepted in the morning.

10:09The People's Party should be

10:11responsible for everything.

10:13Why is it doing this?

10:15I agree with him.

10:17We want to build the loyalty of the People's Party

10:19from 2008 to 2013.

10:21We can build this.

10:23The motorway was built before that.

10:25But I will take you

10:27back to the people of Sindh.

10:29You said that

10:31the permanent member of Sindh

10:33was not available.

10:35Someone else

10:37attended the meeting.

10:39Did he attend

10:41without any preparation?

10:43Was he there for Umrah?

10:45Was he there for Umrah?

10:47Was he there for Umrah?

10:49Or did he attend for some other reason?

10:51Jam Khan was there for Umrah.

10:53Jam Khan was there for Umrah.

10:55A meeting was called.

10:57The Sindh government

10:59sent another minister

11:01to the meeting.

11:03He objected to this matter.

11:05He said that the motorway was not built.

11:07This matter is in the act.

11:09Thank you for sharing

11:11all this information.

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