He was talking to the cabinet of Peshawar Press Club and Senior Journalists at a dinner in Chief Minister House Peshawar. Advisor to CM for Information Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani and Secretary Information Arshad Majeed were also present. The Chief Minister regretted that in the past corruption and corrupt practices had become the brand name of KP because of the misrule. His government made legislations and revamped the public sector entities eliminated interference that stopped corruption and led to an open and transparent governance in the province which was even taken well by the international community. The Chief Minister said that 6th JCC meeting on the CPEC had in principle taken a numbers of projects of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. The 123 Km long greater Peshawar Mass Transit connecting Peshawar, Nowshera, Mardan, Peshawar within an additional 103 Km track would further connect Swabi and Malakand, will provide efficient transportation to the 41% of the total population of the province adding that Gilgit Shandur, Chitral, Chakdara has emerged to be the alternate route and would be all weather route of the CPEC. This will cost Rs.280 billion and would be 586 Km long. He hoped that this road will open up central Asian Republic through Wakhan in the future. The province he added had proposed additional ten hydel power projects with a capacity to produce 2157 Mega Watt of electricity.]]>
