KARACHI: PPP slams ‘reforms’

Published December 10, 2002

KARACHI, Dec 9: The Pakistan People’s Party has termed the Model University Ordinance and other reforms in health and education sectors an attempt to widen class polarization in society.

The PPP parliamentary leader in Sindh Assembly, Nisar Khuhro, talking to a delegation of representatives of KUTS, SPLA and the PMA, said that power to introduce any reforms rested with the parliament and the country should not be run on an ad hoc basis.—PPI

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