ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Marriyum Aurangzeb on Monday felicitated Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on the successful completion of four years of his tenure. In a statement, the minister said that the PM’s historic tenure was marked by unprecedented achievement and economic accession of Pakistan. “Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had the distinction of being elected as the chief executive of the country for the third time on June 5, 2013. He fully justified the confidence the people reposed in him by taking concrete and practical steps to winch the country out of challenges,” she said. She said that some of the major achievements of the PM during the last four years were: formulation of the first ever internal security policy of the country, initiation of a successful targeted operation in Karachi, restoration of peace in Balochistan, dismantling and decimation of the network of the terrorists, initiation of process of reforms in FATA. She said that the government had also put in place epoch-making measures to bring improvement in the education and health sectors and healthcare programme of the prime minister was quintessential of those steps. The minister stated that by reviving the national economy, a respectable niche had been carved out in the comity of nations. The minister said that the CPEC and the steps taken for restoration of peace were gifts from the PM for the people of this region. Undoubtedly this era witnessed remarkable reforms in Railways and IT Sectors, she added.