Wrong answers expose minister
Local Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Another Punjab minister was exposed on Monday after he failed to satisfy the legislators and relied merely on the textual answers sent to him by the officials of his department.
Ehsanuddin Qureshi, Minister for Auqaf, elected on a PML-N ticket from Multan, was unable to satisfy the questioners with his answers regarding various issues. Finally, Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Muhammad Iqbal came to the rescue of the minister and shifted the entire responsibility towards bureaucracy. He gave the ruling that action be taken against the official who had misguided the House by sending wrong answers of the queries raised by legislators.
During the question-answer session, which was reserved for the Auqaf Department, Sajida Mir, a PPP legislator, asked Ehsanuddin Qureshi to inform the House about the number of members, appointed by the Punjab government for the affairs’ committee of the Data Darbar. The minister said the said committee comprised 15 members, headed by Senator Ishaq Dar. Sajida Mir insisted that the minister should tell the legislators the names of the committee members. Responding to this, the minister took the names of the committee members which interestingly showed a figure of 24 which also included the names of Ishaq Dar, Sohail Zia Butt, Bilal Yasin, Pir Syed Nazim Hussain Shah and Haji Azizur Rehman Chan.
Ms Sajida, once again, insisted that if the number of the committee members was 24, why the minister initially stated that there were only 15 members. At this, the minister said that when the question was put by the legislator, the committee comprised of 15 members but now its number had reached 24.
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on Feb 10 2010. Filed under