PPP Punjab sets Feb 7 as deadline for PML-N

PPP Punjab had earlier presented the PML-N with a 19-point agenda to improve workings in the province.

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Punjab on Sunday set Monday, February 7, 2011 as the deadline for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to reply to the 19-point agenda that the PPP sent to it.

PPP provincial ministers will arrange token protests in front of the Punjab Assembly if the PML-N does not give a positive response, said sources. Hour-long protests are expected to take place every day after February 8, 2011.

Earlier, Punjab Senior Minister Raja Riaz Ahmed had told a press conference that the provincial parliamentary party of PPP had sent a 19-point agenda to the chief of PML-N Mian Nawaz Sharif for improving the performance of the Punjab government.

The PPP asked Sharif to remove corrupt provincial ministers whose portfolios were changed in the recent past over corruption and negligence charges. The party also demanded holding of local government elections as early as possible and action against officials responsible for failure of Sasti Roti and food stamp schemes.

This had come in the wake of the 10-points agenda that the PML-N had initially presented the PPP with along with a 45-day deadline.