Upping the ante: PPP threatens to block highways, roads
Senator Raza rejects federal government’s privatisation policy to sell state-owned institutions at throwaway price
KARACHI:
PPP leader Senator Raza Rabbani on Wednesday threatened to block the highways and roads leading to airports for indefinite time if Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) are privatised by the federal government.
Raza Rabbani also said they have convened a meeting of different labour organisations on December 5 where line of action would be devised against the government’s privatisation policy.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 27th, 2014.
PPP leader Senator Raza Rabbani on Wednesday threatened to block the highways and roads leading to airports for indefinite time if Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) are privatised by the federal government.
Addressing a joint press conference along with other leaders of his party at PPP Media Cell, he said, “We reject federal government’s privatisation policy under which it is going to sell the state-owned and profitable institutions to their friends at throwaway price,” he said, adding that PPP would resist the federal government’s move and start the campaign in every nook and cranny of Pakistan.
Raza Rabbani also said they have convened a meeting of different labour organisations on December 5 where line of action would be devised against the government’s privatisation policy.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 27th, 2014.