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| Zardari to be elected president unopposed: minister | |
| 2008-08-24 | |
| Sindh Revenue Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said on Saturday that a dictator was forced to resign through democratic means and the country was heading towards the fulfilment of the dream of slain PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto. Talking to newsmen at the Hyderabad Press Club, the minister said it was Benazir Bhutto who had forced Pervez Musharraf to doff his uniform. Resolutions against Musharraf were passed in the four provincial assemblies, he said. He added that the Sindh Assembly was the first to ask PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari to become the president of the country and the Central Executive Committee also nominated him for the slot of the president. The minister said the PPP co-chairman was carrying forward the reconciliation approach and the vision of Benazir Bhutto Shaheed. Zardari entered into dialogue with forces inside and outside parliament, he said. Murad hoped that Zardari would be elected unopposed as the president and this would be the beginning of a new democratic era.
He said his department was working for amending the Land Revenue Act, adding that there was a conflict with the DHA, KPT and Port Qasim on some land issues. He said the revenue record was being computerised. The minister said a survey of Goths was underway in Karachi, therefore, no new scheme would be launched and no scheme would be demolished till the completion of the survey. He said that he had cancelled all the land allotments made by violating the rules and regulations during the tenure of the previous government. The minister said 70,000 applications had been received by his department against 450 jobs. He added that 58,000 unemployed people would be provided jobs in various departments of the Sindh government. He said he would look into the issue of residential plots for the journalists of Hyderabad. | |
| Posted by:Fred |