ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi, in his maiden speech to the joint session of the Parliament, said the biggest reason for issues facing Pakistan is corruption.
In his speech, Mr. Alvi said: “Our political system remained disturbed for several reasons, but we successfully completed last three democratic terms.”
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He underlined that elections of July 25 proved that people were fed up of ‘dishonesty’, hence they wanted a system of governance devoid of any corruption.
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President Alvi said accountability institutions need to be improved. “Current government wants to build Naya Pakistan on basis of employing simplicity and ridding the society of corruption.”
We must understand that we are debt-ridden nation and we need debts to run our affairs and the government will take measures to tackle this situation, he added.
For addressing water crisis, the president said the country was in need of building dams.
I hope, he said, the government would devise a roadmap to streamline all sectors that contribute to progress of the country.
He also called for prevent wastage of water and reserve the precious resource that was at the brink of becoming scarce.
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