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Link: Pakistan: PPP to discuss privatisation of PTCL

The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Monday announced to move parliament to investigate the alleged “scandalous privatisation” of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) by the former government. “We are going to submit an adjournment motion in the National Assembly against the PTCL’s privatisation. We will demand a special parliamentary committee to probe the country’s biggest financial scam, the registration of an FIR against former premier Shaukat Aziz and former minister Awais Leghari and their arrest,” People’s Labour Bureau (PLB) chief Chaudhry Manzoor Ahmed told a news conference. He said Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had announced to regularise all contractual employees, adding that the telecom company rejected Information Technology Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira directives to regularise its contractual employees in line with the premier’s directives.