Sindh Minister for Excise and Taxation Mukesh Kumar Chawla said that quota of seats for minorities in national and provincial assemblies were not increased during the regimes of dictators, but, under the auspices of the present democratic set up of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and its allies. Chawla was addressing a delegation representing the minorities of Pakistan at his camp office on Sunday. He said that the present government had decreed an increase in the quota of legislative seats for minorities through a constitutional bill. He said the approved bill had increased the number of minority seats in Sindh Assembly from 10 to 14. The minister also flaunted increasing of minority seats in Punjab to 12 from the previous nine, reserving 10 seats for KPK; an addition of two from the previous eight and increasing of minority seats in Balochistan from three to four. Chawla said, “This measure of Pakistan People’s Party has brought a wave of joy among minorities”. Mukesh Kumar Chawla predicted that opponents of PPP would be thoroughly defeated in the upcoming general elections. “People of Pakistan were with Pakistan People’s Party”, he added. He condemned the terrorists attack at Peshawar Airport and shortly after a salvo of insults against his political opponents, remarked that “for peace and prosperity all political parties would have to work together to foil the nefarious motives of anti state elements”.
