ISLAMABAD, April 9: The future paradigm of governments will be based on healthy and harmonious partnership between public and private sectors, the labour minister, Owais Ahmad Ghani, said here on Tuesday.

Speaking at a launching ceremony of a book entitled “Limiting the Unlimited”, the minister said the private sector would even be encouraged to participate in governance.

He expressed the need of private and public partnership, saying though the private sector was very dynamic in terms of profit generation, but, their vision was not that broad as that of the public sector. However, he admitted that this broad vision on the part of the public sector also lacked proper implementation.

The book has been authored by Dr Sabur Ghayur and mainly comprised his published articles in different newspapers.

Though the minister admitted that Dr Ghayur has covered all aspects of the ailments afflicting the people of Pakistan due to bad governance and lack of ability to control law and order situation, he failed to contribute much on the population planning which was the centre point of the present government’s policies.

He also quoted a Hadith to establish that family planning was neither unIslamic nor was condemned in Islam.

Unless the population growth rate was not checked, every development or stride in any sector would be overtaken by this, he feared, adding that this was the challenge the government was facing to change the mindset of the people.

“We should understand that we have a very limited land, limited water resources on which we quarrel all the time, but never bother to check this growth,” he said.

He also asked for abolishing two-tier education system in the country which had created apartheid, and said there must be a unified system otherwise “we were bound to face problems in future”.

Dr Sabur Ghayur stressed on coalition of citizens against corruption and misgovernance, adding that the civil society should supplement the governments through research works on different subjects.

He also suggested mandatory training for future parliamentarians, which should include visits to rural and urban slums during rainy seasons.

He also asked for honorary advisers so that the cabinet could be shown the real picture.

He also deplored that 80 developing countries had badly suffered due to the policies of international financial institutions.

The launching was also addressed by Dr Fakir Hussain, the secretary of the Pakistan Law Commission, the former labour secretary, Zafarullah Khan, financial advisor to the government, Dr Ashfaq Hasan Khan and the director-general of All Pakistan Federation of Labour, Zahoor Awan.