Federal Govt Taking Steps For Karachi's Development: Ahsan

Muhammad Rameez Published November 11, 2016 | 08:40 PM

KARACHI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 11th Nov, 2016 ) : Federal Minister for Planning and Development, Prof Ahsan Iqbal Friday said Green Line Bus Service was being launched here in collaboration with the federal government for solving the local travelling problems.

The federal government was also contributing Rs six billion for the bulk water supply project in Karachi, he added.

Ahsan was talking to reporters here after attending a function at the HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, where he inaugurated the 800 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) machine at the International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS).

He said had the elected PML-N government not dislodged in 1999, there would have been thousands of Ph.Ds. in the country by now. The educational projects initiated by the PML-N government at that time were cancelled by the then government of Pervez Musharraf, he added.