I believe in front door diplomacy, not back door, says Shahbaz

Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said he believes in front door diplomacy, not back door diplomacy.
“I don’t know back door diplomacy but I know front door diplomacy”, he said this while addressing inauguration ceremony on completion of Pirwadhai Mor fly over underpass here Saturday.
Members of national and provincial assemblies, provincial law minister Rana Sana Ullah, Senator Pervez Rashid and others were also present on the occasion.
He held that every penny of public money plundered by the corrupt elements would be recovered from them through by setting up courts at Chohar chowk, Mochi Darwaza and Ghanta ghar in the light of solid evidence against them.
Responding to a question he said injustice was always done to Punjab on the matter of electricity and gas supply and the province was never compensated on this count.
“I am Khadim Aala of the whole Punjab, not only  of Lahore. Allegations of corruption were leveled against  us with regard to the projects of Metro Bus, laptop and Ujala solar and we presented our self in the court of people for accountability. Transparency International has issued certificate in favor of us after finding these projects transparent and of standard quality”, he noted.
He announced prize of Rs 1000000 for distribution among the laborers who worked on  Pirwadhai fly over and under pass projects. This amount will be distributed by a committee set up under commissioner Rawalpindi Imdad Ullah Bosal.

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