Consensus needed to resolve issues: PML-Q
Mushahid Hussain says there is a need for a broad-based consensus among all political parties.
ISLAMABAD:
There is a need for a broad-based consensus among all political parties for evolving a joint strategy on economy, energy, education and terrorism as no single party is in a position to overcome these challenges on its own, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid’s (PML-Q) Secretary-General Mushahid Hussain said on Monday.
Addressing a joint press conference Hussain said: “The government’s incompetence and apathy can be gauged by the fact that the census commissioner for Sindh was appointed just three days ago. Back in 1998, the government had hired 16,000 enumerators to conduct the census but the current government has hired only 8,000.”
Criticising the Sindh government for inefficiency and corruption, he said that 100,000 of half a million Watan cards released for flood survivors were found to be fake.
Mushahid Hussain was accompanied by MNA Marvi Memon, who unveiled her party’s 11-point agenda for the next National Assembly’s session.
“Cases of political victimisation, formulation of a cyber crime legislation, gloom-and-doom reports on Pakistan, including the one compiled by the US State Department, Pakistan’s relations with India, drone attacks, corruption and worsening public sector organisations’ balance sheets, census preparedness, executive’s conflict with judiciary, petroleum price hikes and the HEC dissolution and the domestic security situation would also be taken up,” she added.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 12th, 2011.
There is a need for a broad-based consensus among all political parties for evolving a joint strategy on economy, energy, education and terrorism as no single party is in a position to overcome these challenges on its own, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid’s (PML-Q) Secretary-General Mushahid Hussain said on Monday.
Addressing a joint press conference Hussain said: “The government’s incompetence and apathy can be gauged by the fact that the census commissioner for Sindh was appointed just three days ago. Back in 1998, the government had hired 16,000 enumerators to conduct the census but the current government has hired only 8,000.”
Criticising the Sindh government for inefficiency and corruption, he said that 100,000 of half a million Watan cards released for flood survivors were found to be fake.
Mushahid Hussain was accompanied by MNA Marvi Memon, who unveiled her party’s 11-point agenda for the next National Assembly’s session.
“Cases of political victimisation, formulation of a cyber crime legislation, gloom-and-doom reports on Pakistan, including the one compiled by the US State Department, Pakistan’s relations with India, drone attacks, corruption and worsening public sector organisations’ balance sheets, census preparedness, executive’s conflict with judiciary, petroleum price hikes and the HEC dissolution and the domestic security situation would also be taken up,” she added.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 12th, 2011.