No change in CPEC route: President

President Mamnoon Hussain has said that funds for China-Pakistan Economic Corridor have been enhanced from 46 billion dollars to over 57 billion dollars. Addressing a function in connection with birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Peshawar on Friday, he said destiny of the nation would change with completion of CPEC project.
The President clarified that no change had been made in the route of CPEC and all parts of the country would get benefit from that huge project. He said new projects had also been included in CPEC from all over the country. He asked the youth to utilise the opportunities being generated by CPEC. He said Central Asian states had also expressed willingness to join that project.
Mamnoon Hussain said future of Pakistan was very bright as the nation had succeeded in elimination of terrorism, adding the law and order situation in the country, including Karachi, had greatly been improved as a result of successful operations. He regretted that corruption damaged the society in the past but now the country was heading in right direction.
In his address on the occasion, Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Iqbal Zafar Jhagra lauded the role of security forces and general public in elimination of terrorism from society. He said about 85 percent temporarily displaced persons of FATA had returned to their native areas but the process had now slowed down due to winter season. The Governor said the remaining TDPs would be sent back to their areas by March next year.
Meanwhile, the KP Governor in a statement issued here refuted claims of death from polio vaccination in KP, and said the news of the recent death of a child in Khyber Agency from polio vaccination was not true. Jhagra urged the people of the tribal areas not to become victims of any propaganda against the polio campaign. The governor lauded the services of polio teams working in the tribal region, adding that 99 percent of the children in Fata had received polio vaccination in 2016. He also called upon the people to cooperate with the polio workers.