Federal Science and Technology Minister Mir Changez Khan Jamali on Thursday announced to regularise 278 contract and daily wages employees of the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR).
He was speaking as a chief guest at a seminar on ‘Challenges and threats to pharmaceutical industry of Pakistan in the 21st century’ at the PCSIR Lahore complex.
He also visited an exhibition of pharmaceutical companies at the PCSIR offices.
Talking to the council employees, he said the PPP was acting on the policy of reconciliation under the leadership of President Asif Ali Zardari.
He said the PPP had always provided employment to people and that since the PPP-led government had came to power, about 30,000 employees had been regularised.
He said the remaining will also be regularised soon.
He also mentioned that the salaries and other allowances of the newly regularised employees will be allocated in the upcoming budget.
Jamali said the resistance of Punjab’s rulers will pave the way for the dictatorship in country.
He said the country’s real issues were the loadshedding and unemployment and that there was an urgent need to redress them and control the rising gap between the rich and the poor. Jamali said industrialisation at global level demands efficiency and the appropriate utilisation of resources.
Talking about the contaminated medicines administered to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) patients, he said many precious lives were wasted due to the medicines.
He said medicines were a necessity of life and that there was a need for the development of new medicines and related research.
He said in developing countries like Pakistan, technical advancement could not be achieved through expensive imported technologies.
Jamali said industrialisation was the key to high GDP growth and employment generation.
He also stressed upon close links between research and industrial organisations and added that the Ministry of Science and Technology had established a commercialisation cell in Islamabad for this purpose.
PCSIR Chairman Dr Shaukat Pervez and Lahore Office Managing Director Dr Shehzad Alam were also present at the occasion.
