Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo Friday said the PPP-led coalition government was carrying forward the policy of national reconciliation and taking onboard the PML-Q was part of the same policy. Winding up a debate on the president’s address to joint sitting of parliament, the minister also invited other political parties to join hands with the government to overcome all the problems facing the country.
He said the president had referred to the challenges being faced by the country and invited all political forces to collectively respond to them. Wattoo said Asif Ali Zardari was the first president who handed down his powers to parliament and “it is the PPP-led government which abolished the concurrent list and devolved power to the provinces”. He said due to economic reforms introduced by the government, exports and foreign exchange reserves had reached a record level.
