KARACHI: Federal Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan on Tuesday
defended President Asif Ali Zardari’s selections for civil awards.
She
said that opposition’s criticism about civil awards was unjustified,
adding all awards were awarded on merit. On Monday, Opposition leader
in National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan lashed out at President
Zardari for awarding civil awards to Rehman Malik and Babar Awan.
Addressing
a press conference in Karachi, Ms. Awan said that establishment of new
provinces on administrative basis was the need of hour.
“Time
is gone when there was one province for a population of around 110 or
120 million people,” she explained. “Our government is trying to
resolve all problems through talks,” she said.
Awan said that
public would reject those politicians, who were dreaming of coming into
power by hiding behind an institution. “Our political rivals tried to
do politicking instead of uniting the nation on the Independence Day,”
she remarked.
Speaking on this occasion, Sindh’s Information
Minister Sharjil Memon said that Nawaz Sharif would perform badly in
the next general elections.
PPP, he claimed, have implemented
80 percent clauses of the charter of democracy (CoD), leaving no room
for Nawaz for doing politicking. Online
