New cabinet- Old winw in new bottle
MULTAN, Feb 12th;: Expressing dismay over the formation of new federal cabinet by the PPP-led government, opposition parties termed it as ‘mere cosmetic changes"It is nothing more than old medicine with new label which would not heal the nation’s wounds,”
said MNAMakhdoom Javed Hashmi,a central leader of PML-N said a lot now depends on how the new cabinet would act to ensure that the governance is improved to steer the country out of a painful economic mess with all macroeconomic indicators suggesting tough times ahead.
Javed Hashmi said the move would produce desirable results only if it was coupled with implementation of other demands of his party. “There are other important things as well. They must also be acted upon,” said Hashmi. PML-N MNA Rana Mehmood-ul-Hassain Chairman of NA's standing committee on shipping and ports said that we did not go into the question of welcoming it. The new cabinet is of course lean but more important is whether it would be clean as well.He also said there wasn’t any significant hope of change if the decision of reducing the cabinet was not supplemented with the eradication of corruption.Majority of political parties has rejected the newly ‘truncated’ cabinet on Friday calling it an “old wine in new bottom.” However, ANP categorically supported the new cabinet while MQM gives a diplomatic response to the issue.
Talking to this correspondent, the senior leaders of mainstream political parties straightway rejected the induction of 22 ministers in the new cabinet saying that this was an exercise conducted to deviate attention from the real issues of survival the Pakistani public confronted today.
Nawabzada Mansoor Ahmed Khan Chief of Pakistan Democratic Party said, “This is old wine in new bottle. Nothing has changed. All those ministers who had earned bad reputation due to their notorious deeds are back in the saddle.PDP rejects this cabinet which is formed to conceal real issues like corruption, lawlessness, poverty etc.” Former Punjab Governor Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar rejects the formation of new cabinet, which is a tactic to divert the attention of masses from the government’s submission to US dictation, inequality and injustice.I congratulate Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Qamar Zaman Kaira and others who are not part of this cabinet. Khurshid Abbas Gardezi of JUI-F said “On behalf of my party, let me clarify it once for all, we are not going to join this cabinet and we would never like to be part of such a corrupt and US slave government,” To a query, he dispelled the reports that the JUI-F could not stay away from power and it would join the cabinet in the second phase.PML-Q leader Alhaj Sikandar Hayat Bosan former federal Minister for Food & Agriculture said, “Those people who filled their pockets and emptied the national exchequer are back in business. What was the point of this exercise? We want a cabinet that consists of those people who are clean and don’t have a notorious past. These rulers are not sincere with the masses and country. They are saving their Government at the cost of this country. No good is expected of them. I wonder how people like Raja Pervaiz Ashraf who have been degraded and kicked out of the cabinet would face the masses,” he asked. Liaquat Baloch from Jama’at-e-Islami said that the formation of new cabinet was not only a useless exercise but a disappointing step as well. “The so called rightsizing of the cabinet is done to shift the focus of attention from Raymond Davis case,” he believed. Ijaz Chaudhry central Vice President of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf said that the rulers have lost their nerves after public revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. “The ruling elites fear that their black deeds would trigger same kind of revolution in Pakistan.
The way Government is handling Raymond Davis case is highly shameful and it has annoyed the masses to a great deal so the new cabinet is formed to diffuse pressure,” he argued.
said MNAMakhdoom Javed Hashmi,a central leader of PML-N said a lot now depends on how the new cabinet would act to ensure that the governance is improved to steer the country out of a painful economic mess with all macroeconomic indicators suggesting tough times ahead.
Javed Hashmi said the move would produce desirable results only if it was coupled with implementation of other demands of his party. “There are other important things as well. They must also be acted upon,” said Hashmi. PML-N MNA Rana Mehmood-ul-Hassain Chairman of NA's standing committee on shipping and ports said that we did not go into the question of welcoming it. The new cabinet is of course lean but more important is whether it would be clean as well.He also said there wasn’t any significant hope of change if the decision of reducing the cabinet was not supplemented with the eradication of corruption.Majority of political parties has rejected the newly ‘truncated’ cabinet on Friday calling it an “old wine in new bottom.” However, ANP categorically supported the new cabinet while MQM gives a diplomatic response to the issue.
Talking to this correspondent, the senior leaders of mainstream political parties straightway rejected the induction of 22 ministers in the new cabinet saying that this was an exercise conducted to deviate attention from the real issues of survival the Pakistani public confronted today.
Nawabzada Mansoor Ahmed Khan Chief of Pakistan Democratic Party said, “This is old wine in new bottle. Nothing has changed. All those ministers who had earned bad reputation due to their notorious deeds are back in the saddle.PDP rejects this cabinet which is formed to conceal real issues like corruption, lawlessness, poverty etc.” Former Punjab Governor Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar rejects the formation of new cabinet, which is a tactic to divert the attention of masses from the government’s submission to US dictation, inequality and injustice.I congratulate Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Qamar Zaman Kaira and others who are not part of this cabinet. Khurshid Abbas Gardezi of JUI-F said “On behalf of my party, let me clarify it once for all, we are not going to join this cabinet and we would never like to be part of such a corrupt and US slave government,” To a query, he dispelled the reports that the JUI-F could not stay away from power and it would join the cabinet in the second phase.PML-Q leader Alhaj Sikandar Hayat Bosan former federal Minister for Food & Agriculture said, “Those people who filled their pockets and emptied the national exchequer are back in business. What was the point of this exercise? We want a cabinet that consists of those people who are clean and don’t have a notorious past. These rulers are not sincere with the masses and country. They are saving their Government at the cost of this country. No good is expected of them. I wonder how people like Raja Pervaiz Ashraf who have been degraded and kicked out of the cabinet would face the masses,” he asked. Liaquat Baloch from Jama’at-e-Islami said that the formation of new cabinet was not only a useless exercise but a disappointing step as well. “The so called rightsizing of the cabinet is done to shift the focus of attention from Raymond Davis case,” he believed. Ijaz Chaudhry central Vice President of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf said that the rulers have lost their nerves after public revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. “The ruling elites fear that their black deeds would trigger same kind of revolution in Pakistan.
The way Government is handling Raymond Davis case is highly shameful and it has annoyed the masses to a great deal so the new cabinet is formed to diffuse pressure,” he argued.
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