RECORDER REPORT

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Raza Rabbani has said that Pakistan Mus-lim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government’s privatisation policy is to fulfill the conditions of International Monitory Fund (IMF).

“The privatisation of the institutions in second federal legislative list could not be undertaken without the approval of the Council of Common Interest (CCI). If the government does so, it would violate the Constitution,” Rabbani told a news conference on Tuesday.

He said that letters had been written to the provincial governments about the privatisation policy and the names of institutions to be privatised had been issued in the second federal legislative list.

While referring to the clause 7 of CCI, he said that if any province did not agree to privatise an institution, the matter could be transferred to the parliament. He said that the provincial assemblies could pass a resolution against such privatisation. Rabbani said that the PML-N government had not made it clear whether it would privatise 26 percent or 51 percent shares of PIA. He assured the workers of the institutions that the PPP would raise the issue at every forum.