Referring to a news report appeared in daily, Business Recorder on February 1, 2011 titled, "Dispute with Etisalat-Cabinet Directs Immediate Steps for Resolution".
A spokesman of the Privatisation Commission Tahir Parwaz while clarifying the news report said that the Sub Committee constituted by the Cabinet for resolving the issues of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) among others the issue of PTCL real estate held its meetings on September 28 and 30, 2010, respectively but some of the members of the Committee could not take part in these meetings due to their various parallel engagements.
Another meeting of the sub committee is being convened shortly while ensuring the availability of all the respective members to amicably settle PTCL land issue and to get the stalled instalments of the remaining proceeds on account of PTCL privatisation.
Mushtaq Ghumman adds: Privatisation Commission does not deny the content of the BR story, which is based on the minutes of the federal cabinet. Prime Minister had given the task to the committee to resolve the dispute between PTCL and M/s Etisalat, which has not yet been accomplished and the Commission did nothing to resolve the dispute in the previous calendar year.