Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said the federal government and its institutions would fully support Balochistan government in its endeavours to improve law and order situation in the province. The Prime Minister extended the assurance to Chief Minister of Balochistan Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani, provincial ministers and newly elected senators, who called on him at Prime Minister House on Friday.
The Prime Minister congratulated the newly elected Senators and said members of the Senate have a special role in the federation by virtue of permanence of Senate and equality of representation from each federating unit. The Prime Minister said redressal of the grievances of the people of Balochistan was his top priority and he had already asked the Governor and Chief Minister of Balochistan to get in touch with the estranged Baloch leaders and bring them to the negotiating table, assuring that their deprivations would be taken care of to their satisfaction.
The Prime Minister said 2,500 Baloch youth had been given jobs and while 2,500 were in the process of recruitment in various government departments. The senators congratulated the Prime Minister for his outstanding leadership role for steering democracy out of the crisis situation. The Senate elections and emergence of coalition partners with overwhelming majority in the Senate had certainly scuttled the designs against democracy and the country, they maintained.
They extended their heartiest congratulations to the Prime Minister on the election of Syed Ali Musa Gilani with an impressive victory in the recently held by elections. On the request of senators, the Prime Minister said he had directed the Ministry of Finance, Economic Affairs Division and Deputy Chairman Planning Commission to resolve the issue of subsidy on tubewells in the province.
The Prime Minister said he had already spoken to Federal Minister for Food Security and Research Israrullah Zehri, who was fairly acquainted with solar technology, with cost effective propositions, to introduce this futuristic solution in the remote areas of Balochistan.