Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said on Friday that Prime Minister Imran Khan has formulated a policy for ushering progress and prosperity in the country and all promises will be fulfilled as the Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar is working hard and making efforts and his hard work will pay dividends. He said this while talking to the delegations of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) on the completion of 100 days of the government in the Punjab Assembly. Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi further said that PM Imran Khan is a leader with good intentions; if the ruler has good intentions then Almighty Allah helps and the country becomes stronger economically. “We are with Imran Khan and his party. The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf is the biggest of all parties and chief minister-ship of Punjab was its right. In the initial 100 days, the prime minister has formulated his policy. Now the further headway is to be made under this policy. We have old relations with Chief Minister Usman Buzdar. He is a commoner and is aware about problems of the common man. The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid is sincerely getting along with him and will make him successful. We never desert those with whom we stand,” Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said. Pervaiz Elahi further said that former Punjab chief minister Shehbaz Sharif scrapped our projects of welfare, persisting with enmity for patients did not allow even hospitals to be constructed. “He did every work for securing cheap fame instead of farsightedness. We had left Rs 100 billion in the treasury of Punjab. Former Punjab CM Shehbaz Sharif rendered the province bankrupt. During our tenure, we wished Sharif family well and kept running their businesses also but during 10 years of his chief minister-ship, Shehbaz Sharif got instituted false cases against us, but we have clean hands and because of this Almighty Allah helped us, Sharif family is in the grip of Allah because of its enmity towards people. I took progress reports every month about development works from the officers, made Information Technology Department and IT Tower, established satellite link and call centres, out of all designs of different countries we liked design of California and not computerised number plats according to it, studied best bureaucracy of the world and Singapore model, we induced spirit of serving the people in the bureaucracy and for solving problems of the people ended undue interference, developed Lahore Zoo according to the international standard, established department and more than 160 centres for their welfare and well-being and fixed 5 percent quota in the government jobs,” he said adding that he is well aware about the problems of the journalists, established Journalists Colonies in Multan, Rawalpindi and Lahore, journalists supporting Shehbaz himself provided plots prior to the draw so that their children also have shelter, during “our tenure of the government we undertook works which benefitted the common man. Rescue 1122 is the best service in the world working in emergencies, provided free medicines and other facilities in the hospitals, during our tenure injection costing up to Rs 20,000 was given free”. Journalist leaders said that Elahi had always supported the journalists, he established housing colonies in different cities and provided plots to the journalising without any discrimination and solved their problems on preferential basis. PFUJ President Rana Muhammad Azeem, PFUJ Secretary General Manager Jamali, Shahzad Hussain Butt and General Secretary Ashraf Majeed, Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) President Hassan Abbas and KUJ General Secretary Ejaz Jamali, All Pakistan Newspaper Employees Confederation (APNEC) Chairman Ikram Bokhari and APNEC Vice Chairman Naeem Mustafa and Lahore Press Club President Azam Chaudhry applauded the services of Elahi with regard to the journalists and said that he will do more work for the betterment of journalists. Elahi said that he will talk to Khan and the chief minister for also including the journalists in Naya Pakistan Housing Scheme, hopefully agreeing to his view houses will also be constructed for the journalists. Published in Daily Times, December 1st 2018.