PPP body to discuss Bilawal’s four demands on Tuesday

ISLAMABAD: The five-member implementation committee of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) will hold its meeting on Tuesday in Islamabad to deliberate on progress on four demands to the government by the party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and will chalk out future strategy.

The implementation committee headed by former prime minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani will meet the political leadership of other opposition parties to get their support for the implementation of demands. The purpose of forming the committee was to devise a strategy to compel the government to accept the four demands.

The committee will make recommendations that will be presented in the central executive committee meeting of the PPP scheduled to be held on December 27 in Larkana to formulated strategy to launch protest campaign against the government.

According to the PPP, the committee will suggest ways and means to the government for implementing the four demands and would report back to the party chairman over progress in this direction.

Bilawal’s four demands are to re-constitute a parliamentary committee on national security, to pass Panama Bill drafted by the PPP, to implement the resolution regarding CPEC and to immediately appoint a foreign minister.

According to a senior leader of the PPP, the committee would definitely see the options available to the party in case their demands were not met by December 27 and would also prepare a plan to launch agitation against the government. Besides Yousuf Raza Gilani, the committee include Sherry Rehman, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Farhatullah Babar and Senator Sardar Fateh Muhammad Hassni.