Gilani forms 5-member committee to work with PML-N Posted by naila , Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 11:33 AM, in Labels: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday formed a five-member committee to liaison with political leaders and to bring them together for proposing solutions to national issues.

The committee comprises of Law Minister Babar Awan, Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Water and Power Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Syed Naveed Qamar and Senator Raza Rabbani.

The committee is expected to work with a similar committee formed by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for resolving national issues.

Prime Minister Gilani called PML-N’s senior leader Ishaq Dar to give assurance that the government’s five-member committee would soon meet the PML-N body and begin functioning.

The PML-N committee comprises of Senator Ishaq Dar, Sardar Mehtab, Pervez Rashid and Abdul Qadir Baloch.

The formation of the committee comes after Gilani accepted the PML-N’s ten point national agenda earlier this month. The PML-N had demanded that the federal government implement a ten-point charter by February. The government now has 42 days to implement the charter.