Ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said that the much-talked about return to presidential system is not being considered at "party or government" levels, but the Parliament is sovereign to do whatever it decides.
He was replying to questions by newsmen onboard the PM's plane en route to Seoul on Wednesday. He also touched upon, as usual, in his characteristic brief and sometimes cryptic manner, a number of other subjects of political interest.
To a question, he said, "Giving jobs to the people is no crime," so the punishment handed down to ex-speaker Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani does not appear to be proper.
But when asked to comment on the incarceration of Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, Shujaat said he was not aware of the crime for which the opposition leader was convicted.
Shujaat was part of the delegation headed by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, the journey he traversed with an earlier prime minister of Pakistan, Muhammad Khan Junejo, who was dismissed on his return.
When asked are you haunted by that kind of apprehension, he said, "I was with that prime minister. Now, I am with Shaukat Aziz," he replied gingerly.
Meanwhile, Minister of State for Overseas Pakistanis Tariq Azeem told newsmen that the government would try to encourage government-to-government manpower export business.
Presently, most of the manpower export is with the private sector who sent abroad 174,600, while the government agency could send only about a thousand people.
But given the exploitation of overseas workers at the hands of private recruiting agencies the government would like to increase its role in the matter, he added.
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