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| 15 September 2004 | Wednesday | 29 Rajab 1425 |
Durrani rules out PA resolution on uniform
PESHAWAR, Sept 14: Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has said that the government has no plan to present a resolution in the NWFP Assembly on the issue of the president's uniform.
Talking to newsmen at a function of Dastarbandi at Darul Uloom-i-Sarhad here on Tuesday, Mr Durrani said that the provincial assemblies should avoid resolutions on the issue of Present Gen Pervez Muharraf's uniform.
The provincial assemblies should followthe17th Amendment, which had already cleared the ambiguity on the issue of present's uniform and that was why the MMA had decided not to raise the issue here, he said.
Without mentioning the Punjab Assembly, which on Monday passed a resolution asking President Musharraf not to shed uniform even after December, the chief minister said that the provincial government should respect the constitution and avoid raising any issue which could create ambiguity.
"This is the issue of the centre and the National Assembly is the best forum to decide it," he suggested. Commenting on the recent statement of Federal Minister for Water and Power Ameer Maqam in which he had denied having any knowledge about the increase in the net hydel profit of the NWFP, the chief minister said that the province's net hydel profit had been increased from Rs6 billion to Rs8 billion and the recently inducted minister had no information about it.
"We have extended an invitation to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to come to Peshawar and hold talks on the issue of net hydel profit," Mr Durrani said. The former prime minister, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, had announced an increase of Rs2 billion per year in the hydel profit in the presence of Mr Shaukat Aziz, who was finance minister at that time, he said.
But it was a promise and before giving it the shape of a document Mr Jamali resigned, he added. "But Mr Aziz knows the promises made by the former premier, which not only include the increase in the net hydel profit, but also Rs5 billion subvention grant and establishing 10 small dams in the Frontier," he said.
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