PPP names team to examine 19-point agenda
Identifying the PPP nominees, senior Punjab minister Raja Riaz said that they were provincial ministers for labour and finance, Muhammad Ashraf Sohna and Tanveer Ashraf Kaira, respectively.
Riaz had previously called on Sharif on February 8 where it was decided to cancel the PPP’s earlier decision to stage a sit-in.
Riaz told reporters that during the Monday meeting, both sides discussed the implementation of PPP’s 19-point agenda.
He said that chief minister had sought a day to announce the PML-N members of the committee which would thrash out the agenda, adding that the chief minister himself would set the timeframe for submitting the final report.
Reiterating the demand for good governance, Riaz criticised the provincial government for not sacking “corrupt provincial ministers”. He did not specify, but said that these ministers were indulging in “moral and financial corruption”.
He regretted that the Punjab government had not even “disclosed irregularities in the Sasti Roti scheme”.
Riaz said that the chief minister had promised him about providing “35 BS-4 jobs to each PPP lawmaker in the Punjab Assembly by February 28”.
Commenting on Kaira’s role in the committee, he said that Kaira was a diehard PPP activist and he would remain a party loyalist no matter what post he was given.
In a separate statement, Punjab PPP chief Imtiaz Safder Warraich said that the Punjab government should improve its credibility by implementing PPP’s 19-points agenda.
He said that if implemented, PPP’s agenda would eradicate terrorism from the province, besides helping in improving governance and law and order situation.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 15th, 2011.
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