PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has decided to form an Ethics Committee to look into public complaints regarding unethical behaviour of PPP members or PPP parliamentarians.
The decision to form the Committee was taken after reports that some unscrupulous elements impersonating them as personnel staff of PPP co-chairman tried to placate government offices with requests to transfer officials, as well as implement or shelve development works. In a statement PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar said that Asif Ali Zardari has not asked any individual for carrying out such mischief.
He advised the public to be on guard against unscrupulous elements impersonating in the name of personal staff of PPP co-chairman Senator Asif Ali Zardari and or trying to influence postings and transfers of officers and individuals, or to initiate development schemes. He said, a number of instances of this nature had come to the notice of Asif Ali Zardari, who has been mortified by these reports.
He said the co-Chairperson will take appropriate legal action against the elements. 'The PPP leader has not authorised any one to make phone calls or write letters of recommendations to public and private offices,' said Babar. Members of the public were requested to report such delinquent individuals to Asif Zardari's office in Islamabad.