Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday laid the foundation stone of a 303km highway in Balochistan, promising to expedite development projects in the southwestern Pakistani province.
Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, is Pakistan’s largest in terms of land area but its least populous and underdeveloped. It has witnessed a low-intensity insurgency for the last two decades, fueled by anger that its abundant reserves of natural resources are not relieving citizens from crushing poverty.
During a visit to Quetta, Balochistan’s provincial capital, Sharif inaugurated construction work on the part of the N-25 highway that connects Khuzdar city with Kuchlak town.
