February 3, 2021
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Prime Minister Imran Khan has said those fleeing abroad do not have courage to tender resignations from the assemblies.
Presiding over the federal cabinet meeting here on Tuesday, he said he was ready to resign as premier ‘tomorrow’ if the looters, Nawaz Sharif, Asif Ali Zardari and Fazlur Rehman return the looted national wealth.
However, in a tit-for-tat reply, Pakistan Muslim League-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz told the premier to be patient and he would come to know soon what resignations mean.
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz, when asked about Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement about tendering resignation during a press briefing on the decisions made at the cabinet meeting, he parried the question, though asked twice.
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The writer is a freelance journalist.
Imran Khan’s rhetorical speeches before coming into power made people believe that he was a messiah for the hapless of this country. The gullible thought that the Kaptaan would rid them of poverty and illiteracy, and put an end to cronyism and profit mongering. They thought the champion of change would make Pakistan prosperous and ensure nobody dies hungry.
But unfortunately this all seems to be a mirage now. The PTI government is bent on reneging on all its promises. It seems to have no clue about how to run state affairs. Despite the repeated shuffling in the federal cabinet and the bureaucracies in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Islamabad, it has yet to translate its tall claims into actions. Corruption, mismanagement and cronyism are some of the elements that define this government. Its detractors blame the government for destroying state-run entities to justify their privatization instead of coming up with a plan to revitalize them, and
Swati talks of outsourcing some Pakistan Railways wings
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Newly appointed Railways Minister Azam Swati said on Saturday that the government could not run the Pakistan Railways in its entirety.
“I am admitting being the minister that we can’t run the entire railway,” Swati said at a press conference in Lahore. “We will have to outsource some of its tiers, some parts.”
If a few PR wings were not outsourced, then the department would have to be shut down like the Pakistan Steel Mills, according to the minister.