LAHORE: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Prof Ahsan Iqbal, has expressed reservations over the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa petition on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) before the Peshawar High Court.
Addressing a two-day business conference organised by University of Management and Technology (UMT) here yesterday, Ahsan Iqbal said KP government should not use CPEC to gain its political interests.
“They were not worried of KP’s court move but that provincial government was distorting its own image as well as of Pakistan,” he said adding, foreign investment could not be attracted through court proceedings.
He recalled a meeting held one and a half months earlier and said in that meeting, the KP Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak had expressed his satisfaction over the CPEC project.
He said he was surprised how his mind changed at once. To a question, Ahsan said people wanted the PML-N government to complete its constitutional tenure and ‘day of accountability’ would be in year 2018 through ballot. He said predictions of political pundits proved false in the past and would fail again in future as well. Ahsan said only the PTI politics had changed and Pakistan’s interests did not change. The minister said that some political parties wanted to impose their own will and choice upon the Supreme Court.
