All contractual (daily wages) employees of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) would be regularised. This was stated by Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar while addressing the newly elected officer-bearers of the Union of Civil Aviation Authorities Employees (UCAE), CBA, at Benazir Bhutto International Airport, Rawalpindi, according to Muhammad Imran, a spokesman of UCAE, on phone to local newsmen on Saturday.
He said that the Minister had said that Pakistan People's Party was making efforts for the development and betterment of the nation and to uplift the life standard of lowest class, including labourers.
On this occasion, Minister for Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis Khurshid Ahmed Shah, State Minister for Interior Taslim Ahmed Qureshi, State Minister for Communication Imtiaz Safdar Waraich, MPA NWFP Faiza Dauood, DG CAA Junaid Amin, President Pakistan People Labour Bureau Manzoor Ahmed, Dr Mehreen Bhutto, newly elected CBA UCAE Chairman Sanaullah Zia along with other members and a large number of PPP Jiyalas were also present.
According to him, Mukhtar said that sacrifices of PPP would never be forgotten and Benzir's mission to facilitate the poor class would be completed.
"PPP will give all basic rights to the people" the minister said. The problems of UCAE would be solved after consultations with its office-bearers, he added.
Coming hard on media, the Minister said that President Asif Ali had taken those 200 people with him to Saudi Arabia for performing Umra on his own expenditure who stayed with him during hard times while media was presenting negative picture of this tour and media should avoid such practice, he added.
Minister Khurshid Shah said that facilitating the labourers could strengthen a country or organisation. He said that Benazir was committed for bringing a positive change in the lives of poor class and PPP-led government would do whatever it takes to provide relief to working class.
He said that PPP founder Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had made Pakistan's defence invincible by making it a nuclear power.
He said that though the country was facing serious economic crises, the nation with its talent and strong will, would come out of these crises. Earlier, Ahmed Mukhtar administered oath to newly elected office-bearers of UCAE (CBA).