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Thursday, April 21, 2011
PML-N quits 18th Amend Implementation Commission
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has decided to bid farewell to the 18th Amendment Implementation Commission, a private news channel reported on Wednesday. According to sources privy to the PML-N, the decision came in the backdrop of government’s much criticised resolve to devolve the Higher Education Commission (HEC). “Also, the PML-N has reservations over the government’s decision to transfer assets to the provinces,” sources elaborated. Sources said that PML-N’s senior leader and the Commission’s Deputy Chairman, Ishaq Dar, wrote a five-page letter to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to apprise the latter about his party’s resolve and tendered his resignation from the post of commission’s deputy chairman. Ishaq Dar, the deputy chairman of the 18th Amendment implementation commission announced his resignation from the commission claiming the government was not implementing decisions of the commission in letter and spirit. The implementation commission, led by PPP’s Senator Raza Rabbani, oversaw the devolution of federal departments and ministries to the provinces, including the HEC, Social Welfare and Special Education, Education, Livestock and Dairy Development, Culture and Tourism ministries. daily times monitor.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk