Zardari asks Sindh cabinet members to get their act together

PPP leader tells CM to ensure all members show up at work and do public service

Pakistan Peoples Party leader and former president Asif Ali Zardari is reported to have expressed his resentment over Sindh cabinet members who do not sit in their offices, saying that the cabinet members are chosen representatives of the province and they should come to work to discharge their duties and do public service.

He was speaking to Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, who called on him at the Bilawal House on Wednesday.

The meeting between the two top politicians of the ruling party in Sindh took into consideration the administrative and political situation prevailing in the province. 

According to sources privy to the meeting, Shah briefed Zardari about the performance of his cabinet.

Zardari, who is the president of the Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians, said that the public had to make their decisions to choose their leadership in the general elections due next year, so the elected public representatives were required to do public service in the best of manner.

He asked the chief minister to ensure all members of the cabinet were fully active.

Shah, who took over as the provincial chief executive from Syed Qaim Ali Shah last year because his party wanted to prepare for the general elections, was said to have informed the former president that he had exhorted the cabinet members to be punctual. 

He further said that development projects were being completed in the province on a fast-track basis. He said he had been trying his best to complete development projects within the stipulated time, and to achieve the objective he had been supervising all ongoing development projects in the province. 

He expressed the resolve that all ongoing mega development projects in the province would be completed till 2018.

Shah said that the other day he had discussed with the Chinese consul General the projects being constructed in the province as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.   

Later, Zardari left the city for Islamabad, where he is expected to stay for some days to hold meetings with politicians and to chair an all parties’ conference convened by the PPP on March 4 on the issue of continuity of military courts.