Little progress on six-point deal with PTI: Raisani
BNP-M backs protesting BDA workers’ demands
Nawabzada Haji Lashkari Raisani. PHOTO: FACEBOOK
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Central Leader of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) Nawabzada Haji Lashkari Raisani has said that the party is waiting for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to implement its six-point agenda within the given time but the Prime Minister Imran Khan-led government seems reluctant to make any progress on it.
The BNP-M senior leader made these remarks while talking to a private news channel on Sunday.
“PM Imran has been hiding behind senior PTI leader Jahangir Tareen, who was the front man in signing accord with the BNP-M for joining the PTI-led coalition in the Centre,” said Raisani, adding that despite lack of our trust over the federal government, the BNP-M is still standing by its commitment and is waiting for the government to fulfill the demands made.
However, he cautioned that the party is only waiting for the given time to end after which it shall be free to take any decision regarding its future in the coalition government.
Replying to a question regarding the nine-month performance of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP)-led provincial government, Raisiani called the incumbent Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan, ‘a selected CM’.
“CM Jam Kamal was selected for the office following a specific agenda in Balochistan. Till the end of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government he was a federal minister but just months before the general election he joined a party that was not even established by a political leader but by a government employee,” said the BNP-M leader.
Raisani was further irked that the chief minister should have taken all the opposition parties into confidence when preparing the provincial budget but unfortunately the ‘selected’ government is busy in preparing the budget and Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) secretly.
Earlier this month, CM Jam Kamal while chairing a meeting to review 2019-20 provincial budget directed all concerned departments to ensure implementation of guidelines given by the Planning Commission and Balochistan High Court while finalising the budget.
Sharing his views on the provincial government’s bid to amalgamate Levies Force into Police, the BNP leader said that the government had claimed that the Levies forces are not able to maintain the law and order situation in the province but despite the presence of both the police forces and the Frontier Corps (FC) hundreds of people have been killed in the provincial capital alone.
“It seems, the government wants to end the Levies system from the province to introduce its own system and transfer police officers from Punjab and other provinces to Balochistan,” alleged Raisani.
Answering a query regarding federal government’s decision to cut funds for the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Raisani said not only the federal government but the provincial government is also playing its role in destroying the education sector in order to keep our people illiterate.
BNP-M backs protesting BDA workers’ demands
The Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) has announced that it backed the demands of the protesting employees of the Balochistan Development Authority (BDA).
BNP-M MNA and party central information secretary Agha Hassan Baloch visited the camp of the protesting employees on Saturday. He told them that his party supported the demands of the workers’ joint action committee and would raise them in the national and provincial assemblies.
“The BNP-M has been taking up the province’s case in parliament,” he said.
“During his tenure as the chief minister, Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal [BNP-M chief] increased the salaries of government employees,” he added. “We will continue supporting the province’s government employees.”
Masood Khan Bazai, a leader of the BDA joint action committee, informed the MNA about the employees’ issues and urged him to raise them in the National Assembly.
Central Leader of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) Nawabzada Haji Lashkari Raisani has said that the party is waiting for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to implement its six-point agenda within the given time but the Prime Minister Imran Khan-led government seems reluctant to make any progress on it.
The BNP-M senior leader made these remarks while talking to a private news channel on Sunday.
“PM Imran has been hiding behind senior PTI leader Jahangir Tareen, who was the front man in signing accord with the BNP-M for joining the PTI-led coalition in the Centre,” said Raisani, adding that despite lack of our trust over the federal government, the BNP-M is still standing by its commitment and is waiting for the government to fulfill the demands made.
However, he cautioned that the party is only waiting for the given time to end after which it shall be free to take any decision regarding its future in the coalition government.
Replying to a question regarding the nine-month performance of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP)-led provincial government, Raisiani called the incumbent Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan, ‘a selected CM’.
“CM Jam Kamal was selected for the office following a specific agenda in Balochistan. Till the end of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government he was a federal minister but just months before the general election he joined a party that was not even established by a political leader but by a government employee,” said the BNP-M leader.
Raisani was further irked that the chief minister should have taken all the opposition parties into confidence when preparing the provincial budget but unfortunately the ‘selected’ government is busy in preparing the budget and Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) secretly.
Earlier this month, CM Jam Kamal while chairing a meeting to review 2019-20 provincial budget directed all concerned departments to ensure implementation of guidelines given by the Planning Commission and Balochistan High Court while finalising the budget.
Sharing his views on the provincial government’s bid to amalgamate Levies Force into Police, the BNP leader said that the government had claimed that the Levies forces are not able to maintain the law and order situation in the province but despite the presence of both the police forces and the Frontier Corps (FC) hundreds of people have been killed in the provincial capital alone.
“It seems, the government wants to end the Levies system from the province to introduce its own system and transfer police officers from Punjab and other provinces to Balochistan,” alleged Raisani.
Answering a query regarding federal government’s decision to cut funds for the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Raisani said not only the federal government but the provincial government is also playing its role in destroying the education sector in order to keep our people illiterate.
BNP-M backs protesting BDA workers’ demands
The Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) has announced that it backed the demands of the protesting employees of the Balochistan Development Authority (BDA).
BNP-M MNA and party central information secretary Agha Hassan Baloch visited the camp of the protesting employees on Saturday. He told them that his party supported the demands of the workers’ joint action committee and would raise them in the national and provincial assemblies.
“The BNP-M has been taking up the province’s case in parliament,” he said.
“During his tenure as the chief minister, Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal [BNP-M chief] increased the salaries of government employees,” he added. “We will continue supporting the province’s government employees.”
Masood Khan Bazai, a leader of the BDA joint action committee, informed the MNA about the employees’ issues and urged him to raise them in the National Assembly.