September 01, 2008	Monday	Sha'aban 29, 1429

KARACHI, Aug 31: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that the Pakistan People’s Party was transforming the bureaucracy into a people-friendly wing of governance.

Speaking at a function organised at the PIA Township to hand over confirmation letters to first of the 4,600 PIA daily wage workers, Mr Shah said that transformation of the bureaucracy would help turn the state into a model democratic society for which Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto laid down their lives and offered great sacrifices. He said that ZAB and BB wanted to see Pakistan as a developed country and its people a prosperous nation. Congratulating the PIA workers on the confirmation of their jobs after nearly 18 years, he said the PPP was determined to solve the problems being faced by peasants, workers and the downtrodden.

He observed that after dismissal of Benazir Bhutto’s government a few years back, the bureaucracy had developed a habit of obliging only influential figures and upper class people while the common man remained neglected. Now the PPP had undertaken to make the bureaucracy change its habits and pay full attention to the neglected segments of the society, he added.

The chief minister also announced that all old goths would be regularised soon.