LAHORE: Special Assistant to Chief Minister Punjab Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Tuesday said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leadership wanted to make a deal for protecting their personal agendas but the people of Pakistan had rejected them as they spit poison against national interests while sitting abroad.
Addressing a press conference along with Punjab Minister for Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Khalid Mehmood here at PDMA head office, she said the rift between Maryam Nawaz and Shehbaz Sharif had been surfaced during party ticket distribution process for Azad Jammu and Kashmir elections, she maintained.
She said, if the PML-N leadership wanted to make a deal, they first have to come back to the country and face the cases pending in courts, only then the people of country would accept them.
She said that Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM)’s agenda to push the country into darkness had been failed as people did not allow them to spoil country’s progress and prosperity.
Earlier, talking about the PDMA’s performance, Dr Firdous said that PDMA’s team had effectively responded to national emergencies including flood, COVID-19 and locust by maintaining proper crisis management strategy and supply chain, adding that practical steps were being taken to develop it as per standards of international emergency respond organizations so that it could provide a sense of relief to people during emergencies.
Regarding Supreme Court’s decision on Local Government, Dr Firdous said the government would fully implement the Supreme Court’s verdict as a summary to comply with SC’s decision has been sent to the CM Punjab.
Addressing on the occasion, PDMA Punjab Minister Khalid Mehmood said the authority had played a significant role to cope with emergencies like COVID-19 and locust, adding that comprehensive steps were being taken to bring improvement in the functions of PDMA under which the volunteers were trained by the PDMA at district level.
