Premier inaugurates laborers’ complex in Islamabad; congratulates overseas minister for reviving the 25-year-old project

ISLAMABAD:

Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated on Thursday a laborers' complex in Islamabad as part of the Naya Pakistan Housing Scheme.

"This is a major achievement," the premier said while addressing a ceremony held for the allotment of 1,500 houses in the federal capital.

The project was initiated as part of a joint collaboration between the Workers Welfare Fund, Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis, and Human Resources Development.

"I want to congratulate Zulfi Bukhari [Minister for Overseas Pakistanis], Workers Welfare Fund, and their team for reviving the 25-year-old project and providing the people with their own houses," he added.

"In the last 25 years, no one thought about making this a priority and provide houses to those who can't afford to have their own residence," the premier said.

"This is the true meaning of Naya Pakistan - a new idea and mindset of a government, deciding to uplift the destitute segments of the society," the PM remarked.

He said it was a collective responsibility of a government to prove through its actions that it has new ideas to serve its people.

"It is a right of this segment of the society and we owed it to them," he maintained.