LAHORE, June 15: Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that provincial budget for 2008-09 to be announced on Monday will provide maximum relief to people.

Talking to mediamen after holding a meeting with party workers here on Sunday, he said the government had prepared a people-friendly budget and efforts had been made to allocate maximum resources for the welfare of people to resolve their problems.Mr Sharif said that he would hold meetings with party workers on every Sunday and Thursday to resolve their problems.

“We will bring the plunderers of national wealth to book and recover money and end the culture of corruption,” he said.

About the lawyers’ long march, he said that it was a successful event and the PML-N would continue the struggle till the reinstatement of deposed judges. The decision for not staging a sit-in was taken by the lawyers’ leadership, he said.

“Lawyers deserve appreciation for writing a new chapter in the history for holding a peaceful long march from Peshawar to Karachi,” he said.—APP

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