CM suspends Chief Engineer, blacklists firm

Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan, Special Assistant Pervez Rasheed, MNAs and MPAs, Chief Secretary Punjab and other senior officers were also present on the occasion. The CM said that Lahore-Kasur Road project started at a cost of Rs5 billion should have been completed three years ago but due to criminal negligence in its execution the government will have to bear heavy additional expenditure.

He said that Musharraf and his companions made tall claims of development of the country but the reality belies all these claims. He said that despite release of funds for Lahore-Kasur Road, this project could not be completed even after three years. He said that no arrangements for third party audit were made for this project worth five billion rupees, which is very surprising. He said due to delay in this project, people are not only facing a number of problems but the patients of Kasur and its adjacent areas are also not able to reach hospitals in Lahore during emergency. He has also called for a report from NESPAK authorities by October 15 with regard to substandard construction of Lahore-Kasur Road.

He said that irregularities in the project of Lahore-Kasur Road were ignored by the past rulers and now these have come to surface due to his interest in this project.