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PML-Q tables resolution against CM’s task forces

Staff Report

LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid has submitted a resolution in the Punjab Assembly Secretariat against the chief minister’s task forces. Challenging their constitutional status, the resolution says the task forces are hampering the expansion of the provincial cabinet and are a burden on the national exchequer, sources told Daily Times on Tuesday.

According to the sources, the resolution was tabled by the PML-Q’s Seemal Kamran, Amna Ulfat and the deputy opposition leader Yar Muhammad Hiraj.

Talking to reporters, MPA Seemal Kamran confirmed that they had tabled the resolution and proposed the Punjab government disband the task forces at the earliest.

Seemal said Punjab was facing a serious economic crisis but the government was neglecting it. She said the provincial government had appointed several ministers, advisers, along with chairmen of standing committees and task forces and was wasting a lot of money on their salaries and other expenditures.

To a question, she said all 70 chairmen and other members of the task forces received around Rs 25,000 each and had been provided 1,300CC vehicles along with various public office facilities, including drivers and other staff.

Seemal also questioned the constitutional status of the task forces and their chairmen. “Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has established these task forces in a large number just to accommodate his blue-eyed party workers, which is a misuse of the authority and the provincial exchequer,” she claimed.

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