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I was not in Lahore prior to 2008, so commenting on this will be baised.
I am local from Lahore, have grown up here. Prior to 2008, we had Lahore ring road project which was to encircle entire city with a highway. That project is still where it was prior to 2008, just because it was started by Pervez Elahi. And it was more than 80% done, Showbaz couldn't complete remaining 20% of it.
We had new traffic wardens, motorway police, 1122 ambulance systems prior to 2008. What contribution Showbaz has made in these projects since then? Zilch? These are the projects which are directly effecting common man. Thanks God we had Pervez Elahi's govt in between otherwise Showbaz would never had given these projects to Punjab by now.
But all 4 years from 2008-2012 I spend in Lahore. I can practically see the difference, in medical facilities, Computerizing exams, giving leverage to People of Punjab, when whole Pakistan was worried about floor, sugar, chicken, we were getting cheaper then whole country
All Punjab has got, is ghost danish schools, poor healthcare facilities because health funds were diverted towards metro bus, most of the developments were Lahore centric: Development budget: Half of Punjab’s spending concentrated in Lahore – The Express Tribune What happened to that all time successful Yellow Cab scheme? Where those 10,000 yellow cabs went after elections that were distributed in Lahore only? Guess those were just to bribe people to vote for PML-N in elections and now people are using them as private vehicles. I don't see them running in Lahore as taxi anymore.
when he try to catch corrupts while take action in mid nights, to hospitals, police stations.. My cousin is a doctor, used to work in a rural area of Punjab, his fellow doctors were sacked when SS went on the bike to see who missing from his Job.
Paying photo ops visits to hospitals and police stations etc and firing a couple of officers doesn't mean anything. How many places Showbaz can visit in a massive province like Punjab? And how many people he alone can dismiss like this? The system needs to be reformed. If there is a will, there is a way. But looks like Showbaz never had will to reform police, patwari and education system. I don't wanna quote KP govt here because you may not like it. But just as an example, we have uniform education system in KP, medium of learning in school is english for all kids (rich or poor), police department is completely de-politicized, patwari culture completely uprooted in KPK in just one short year. Can we say this for Punjab after PML-N having ruled it for almost 26 years?
This guy is known for not trusting many people, which is why he keeps most of the ministries with himself. He work 18 hrs a day to make sure things are intact. He probably not the genius guy for this Job, but always try to be honest.
Administration doesn't mean keeping all ministries to himself. Ever heard of institution building and work load management? A good administrator is always a good team player. These dictatorship style governance isn't called democracy my friend. He works 18 hours not because he is hard working or he want to do perfect job. He works 18 hours because of his greed of power and his poor work management. He has all resources available to him being CM of Pakistan's largest province with over 10 crore population. If he can't find 10 competent people for these ministries from 10 crore Punjabi population, then call him anything but not leader and administrator.
yes, infrastructure is one of the best powers of Both brothers, and that is why Punjab is much better then all other Provinces. Just recently, a colleague from here went to Karachi and Lahore for some medical purpose, and he was surprise to see how good Lahore roads were, better then muscat. He is Balushi, and used to always complain about Pakistan, Pakistani establishment & Pakistani politicians, but when he came back, he said Baluchistan should also get a Administrator like SS.
You probably didn't even seen the people in Sindh who were asking SS to become their CM. The example set by SS has raised the bars, which is why CM KPK is getting hard time to keep up the peace.
I admire his work in infra development, but having said that. Lahore metro is poorly executed project. Says a man who lives in Lahore and daily passes through the road from where Metro Buses are roaming. The roads under metro bridges are completely fucked up for traffic. We now have daily traffic jams on road where we never used to have any road blocks.
Yesterday's Event was the misfortunate, & yes Punjab Government is responsible for it. It were their responsibility to keep Police as well administration at their bay. But due to your personal glitch, if you say SS was responsible since he planned this, then sorry mate you are wrong.. Logically, as well as morally.
This incident took place in heart of Lahore in day light. Near Showbaz's own Lahore residence. 9 people were dead in this clash. It didn't happen in 10 or 20 minutes. It continued for 8 long freaking hours with all TV channels broadcasting every second of it. What was Shahbaz Sharif and his govt smoking at that time, were they all sleeping? Why no one from govt intervened to stop this mess before its too late? This criminal negligence to me is a core reason to believe that Punjab Govt was either behind this or was indirectly supporting this.
In democracy, Ministers don't resign or get sacked for their direct involvement in scandals only, the are sacked or forced to resign because of their failures too. Punjab govt miserably failed to stop this Model Town incident and entire blame is on Showbaz. Instead of scoring brownie points in press conferences, he should take the responsibility like a man and resign immediately.
Yesterday's incident is another example of Showbaz's failed administration. Since he keeps all core ministries to himself, he has to manage a lot of things at same time, hence he misses a lot of critical things at wrong time. Its also a question mark on his steps to improve police department in Lahore (provincial capital, not talking about entire punjab). If Lahore police can do this in day light, then God knows what gunda gardi police officers are doing in far fetched rural areas of Punjab.
Just yesterday, a SHO has killed a 17 year boy in Faisalabad just because he argued with him. What now? Showbaz will go to that boy's family for photo ops, will announce grant for his family, will suspend the SHO and will call an inquiry. The end of the story. Have you ever heard anyone getting seriously punished in Punjab under Showbaz's rule?
My support for SS is for his work, I haven't got any laptop, neither any scholarship, nor I am living in Lahore who will expect anything from him for my self but only my country.
I also support or oppose him for my country, his right actions are always appreciated but his wrong doings are heavily criticized. And I do so with KP govt too. Unfortunately, Showbaz's wrong doings are way much more than his right actions.
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