PM Shehbaz, Asif Zardari agree to get the country out from troubled economic condition through mutual cooperation
LAHORE, May 21 (SABAH): President of Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians and former president Asif Ali Zardari called on Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif in Lahore on Saturday.
During the meeting, they discussed the prevailing political and economic situation in the country.
Paying tribute to the steps taken by the present government for the welfare of the people, the coalition parties also expressed full confidence in the government.
Both the leaders agreed to get the country out from the troubled economic condition through mutual cooperation.
The meeting was attended by senior government ministers Dr. Miftah Ismail Ahmed Memon, Rana Sanaullah Khan, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Chaudhry Azam Nazir Tarar Advocate and PPP leaders Senator Saleem Mandviwala, Chaudhry Zaka Ashraf and Rukhsana Bangash.
Meanwhile Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday suggested to the authorities concerned to utilize the latest firefighting techniques and arrangements to overcome fire eruption incidents.
Chairing a virtual meeting over the recent incident of forest fire in Shirani district of Balochistan, he stressed that all the latest tools and techniques should be employed to handle such situations in future.
He referred to the use of the latest fire suppression tactics used in the United States and Australia, including spraying of wildfire retardants through helicopters.
The prime minister also directed the authorities concerned to take immediate steps for the compensation of those families who had lost their near ones in the incident.
He assured the provincial government of the Federal Government’s full support to share the grief of the bereaved families and assist them financially, including bearing of educational and medical expenditures of the siblings of these families.
The prime minister said precious lives were lost in the unfortunate incident and observed that immediate and emergency steps were required to cope with the catastrophe.
The prime minister also directed that monitoring teams should be deployed in the affected area and keep close coordination with other related authorities till the issue was resolved.
He also sought a future mechanism to overcome such incidents and tasked the National Disaster Management Authority chairman to submit a plan within next two weeks after consultation with other relevant authorities.