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Ch Sarwar issues a Fact Sheet about the additional cost of the CPEC

Ch Muhammad SarwarLahore: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Punjab organiser Chaudhary Muhammad Sarwar has issued a Fact Sheet about the additional cost of  one billion dollars on three different parts of the Pak-China Economic Corridor and asserts that it is the biggest corruption scandal in the history of Pakistan. He said now no one could expect any good from the incumbent rulers.

Chaudhary Sarwar has demanded that a parliamentary committee comprising of treasury and opposition members should be constituted to create a check and balance on the financial issues in the project. He said that the increase in cost of the project should be investigated by the judges of the Supreme Court and all those responsible for the increase should be held accountable.

Issuing a Fact Sheet , Chaudhary Sarwar said that the incumbent rulers were busy in befooling the masses while raising slogans that they were eliminating corruption. He said that the people were now tired of listening to rulers’ mega corruption scandals and wanted that all corrupt should be brought to book.

According to media reports, Chaudhary Sarwar said  392-kilometre Multan-Sukkur section of the Lahore-Karachi Motorway cost was finalised at Rs315 billion but now secretly this cost has increased by Rs 56 billion. Similarly, 120km Havelian-Thakot road project was finalised at Rs95 billion but now has increased by Rs 46 billion given for this section of the motorway. While the cost of allied infrastructure in the Mullah Band area of Gwadar  rose three times from Rs 835 millions to  Rs2.2 billion.

He said that according to media report the price of those  three CPEC projects rose 23% higher from original approved cost. Chaudhary Sarwar said that most surprising factor of this cost increase was that it was not approved by the ECNEC but a draft was sent to ECNEC Chairman and was approved on a public holiday.

He said that corruption could never be eliminated from the country in the presence of incumbent rulers and regretted that the rulers were now also using the Pak-China Economic Corridor project to satisfy their instinct for corruption. He said that  PTI will continue raising its voice against corruption and expose every corrupt person in the country

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