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| December 3, 2005 | Saturday | Shawwal 30, 1426 |
Balochistan opposition boycotts meeting
QUETTA, Dec 2: The leader of opposition in the Balochistan Assembly has said that opposition parties in the assembly did not attend a meeting recently convened by the provincial government because their conditions for participation had been rejected.
Kachkol Ali said in a statement that the government had invited the opposition parties to a meeting on November 28 but it refused to include the items suggested by them in the agenda.
He said that the government’s agenda pertained to the province’s financial problems, curtailment of government expenditure, withdrawal of subsidiary on electricity for tubewells and efforts to increase government revenue.
The Balochistan National Movement leader said that in their reply to the invitation, the opposition parties expressed willingness to attend the meeting if the following points were included in the agenda:
Reduction in the size of the provincial cabinet, Levies merger with police, exclusion of tubewell power issue from the agenda, leaving opposition MPAs’ constituencies out of the Public Sector Development Programme, Balochistan’s arrears to be paid by the federation and unlawful arrests of political activists by intelligence agencies.
He said that delay in the announcement of the National Finance Commission award was adding to financial problems of Balochistan and accused the provincial government doing nothing to pressurize the federal government to finalize the award.
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