Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said that the government is in constant touch with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) high command and Benazir Bhutto has admitted that she is busy in finalising a deal with the government.
He was talking to journalists at Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) after handing over of document for Haveli Sujhan Singh to be used as city campus of the university here on Wednesday.
Rashid asked the PML (N) leaders Shahbaz Sharif, Ishaq Dar and Chaudhary Nisar Ali not to miss the train and join hands with government. If they lost this opportunity they would end their political career, he observed.
He said that Benazir Bhutto would never forget former prime minister Nawaz Sharif for filing corruption cases against her which forced her to leave the country. Present government has not filed any case against her or her spouse, all the cases were filed during Nawaz government, recalled Rashid who was a minister in Nawaz government.
To a question about role of PML (N) after PPP finalises the deal with the government, he said that PML (N) has no role in Pakistan politics. Benazir would not spare them and their sympathies with religious parties were also haunting the PPP, he added.
"The opposition is divided. They are united just for the lust of power; once elections were held, they would beat each other mercilessly", he maintained.
Earlier, addressing the ceremony, Rashid said that the university should now start work on building city campus in Haveli Sujhan Singh and start classes there. He assured the Vice Chancellor of the varsity Dr Najma Najam that Rs 50 million announced by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz for renovation of the Haveli would be transferred after Eidul Fitr.
The minister admitted the procedural bottlenecks in registration of property and blamed bureaucracy for causing hurdles in development of the country. He said that he had hardships during the process of transfer of the Haveli to the university but the kind help of the Punjab chief minister made the matters easy, he said.
The minister said that his only desire was to make the Rawalpindi a seat of knowledge and for the purpose he established a university for women and dozens of girls colleges and schools in the city. Rawalpindi has no industry or agriculture so that we have to move forward in this field and make education identity of this city, he said.
The minister assured that he would hand over Lal Haveli and Haveli Bagh Sardaran to varsity, but it will take some time. He said that he is ready to write a will of the handing over Lal Haveli to the university and use his efforts to evacuate other 19 portions of the Lal Haveli. He said that Haveli Bagh Sardaran is in possession of Punjab Police and soon he will take up the issue with Punjab Chief Minister.
In her welcome address, FJWU Vice Chancellor Dr Najma Najam said that varsity would start school of architecture and jewellery designing in the city campus and if other Havelis were also handed over masters level classes in tourism would also be launched. She said that Rawalpindi has a rich cultural and traditional heritage, which must be preserved and passed to the next generations.
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