On Monday, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi called on Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar at his office and discussed with him south Punjab and various other issues.

MNA Zain Qureshi and Provincial Minister Dr Akhtar Malik, also present on the occasion.

The chief minister (CM) shared with the foreign minister the south Punjab secretariat matters and steps taken in that regard. He said that south Punjab would witness record development during the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government.

The CM said people gave a thumping majority to the PTI in south Punjab and the defeated elements were spreading propaganda against the government like scrapping of the south Punjab secretariat plans by the government.

Usman Buzdar promised that the PTI government would remove deprivations of all backward areas including the south Punjab, and it was only the PTI government which would create the south Punjab province.

Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that an immediate action by the chief minister over the issue of south Punjab secretariat was commendable, as that eliminated propaganda and rumours.

The era of ameliorating a lot of the common man in Multan and other south Punjab areas has started and no one would be allowed to spread rumours about south Punjab, he added.