Interim cabinet to be small, says Baqar

Caretaker CM terms Ranipur, Jaranwala incidents painful, shameful

KARACHI:

Caretaker Chief Minister Justice (Retd) Maqbool Baqar has said that he would select a small cabinet for which he has started meetings and consultation, but the effort is to induct a cabinet at the earliest.

This he said on Friday while talking to the media at Mazaar-e-Quaid.

He said that he was grateful to Almighty Allah who gave him an opportunity to serve the people of the province for a short time.

“I am keen to play my part to contribute to the realization of the dream of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah,” he said. To a question, the caretaker chief minister said that he has started his meetings to select his cabinet. “In the first phase a few names [for caretaker ministers] would be selected in the first phase and then the process would be completed in the second,” he said and added he was trying to select well-reputed people for his caretaker cabinet.

Replying to a question, Justice Baqar said that rule of law, conviction, and commitment were prerequisites for the improvement of the governance and the government system.

How it would be achieved is the question to which he replied ‘by following the constitution’.

To a question about delaying the general election, Justice Baqar said that we should avoid being skeptical.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 19^th, 2023.