A non-partisan 'Council of Parliamentarians' (COP) has been formed to help the government solve the political, economic, water, energy and other chronic problems confronting the nation, and to mobilise public opinion to work for unity, progress, prosperity and integrity of Pakistan, being above party politics.
The COP convenor, Qaisar Ahmad Sheikh, a former MNA and president of Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, told Business Recorder that the first meeting of the 30-member COP was presided over by veteran parliamentarian Mansoor Hayat Tamman, of Chakwal.
He said the COP members include former National Assembly Speaker Ameer Hussain (Sialkot), Nasrullah Darashik (Rajanpur), Mushtaq Ahmad Cheema (Faisalabad), Amir Hussain (Chiniot), Anayat Ali Shah (Chiniot), Mehr Abdul Rashid (Faisalabad), Mohammad Asif, Farooq Amjad, Kamil Omar, and Abdul Waheed (Lahore), Tahir Rashid (Multan), Ammanullah Khan Shahani (Bhakkar), Zaffarullah Khan (Bhakkar), Javed Iqbal Cheema (Sargodha), Adnan Aurangzeb (Swat), Munir Ahmad Orakzai, (FATA), Shuja Mohammad Khan , Ghulam Mohammad Tiwana (Khoshab), Amanullah Sial (Jhang), Shafaat (Narowal), Anwarul Haque Ramey (Sahiwal), Haroon Ehsan Paracha, Aslam Khacheela (Sargoda), Abdul Manan (Faisalabad), and Mohammad Yusuf (Mansehra).
Qaisar said that former federal minister Zubeda Jalal, from Balochistan, and Sindh politician Ghaus Bakhsh Mehr are also members of the COP, but they could not attend the meeting.
He said that the COP would work only as a concerned patriotic think-thank to help the government, and the nation, to solve the daunting problems being faced by the common man. He said that time has come "that we all work above party politics and affiliations and help the government to get the country out of the woods and put it back on road to progress".
He said the COP is not a pressure group to get any benefit but a helping hand for the government. He said that national consensus is needed to solve the dangerous water and energy crises that have crippled the national industrial and agriculture sectors.
"We will help the government with patriotic zeal with all our intellectual and material resources so that our future generations can live in peace with dignity," he added.
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