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The Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has constituted a 16 member
"Task Force on Poverty Alleviation and Employment Generation" under the
Chairmanship of Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Federal Minister for Privatisation &
Investment.
The Task Force will review the current status of poverty and unemployment in
the country, assess the impact of public sector development and related
programmes on employment generation and poverty alleviation and the government
policies and programmes for poverty alleviation and employment generation
through private sector development, to suggest improvement and accelaration in
the existing programmes, identify specific new initiatives and recommend
implementation strategy, says a notification issued by the PM Secretariat here
today.
In addition to the 16 members, the Task Force may co-opt any additional member
as and when required. Nine members from public sector include Dr. Nasim Ashraf,
Chairman NCHD, Dr. Ishrat Husain, Governor State Bank of Pakistan, Mr. Javed
Sadiq Malik, Secretary Planning & Development, Mr. Waqar Masood Khsn,
Secretary Economic Affairs Division, Dr. Ashfaq Hasan Khan, Economic Advisor,
Finance Division, Dr. A.R. Kamal, Director PIDE, Dr. Nuzhat Ahmad, Director
Applied Economic Research Centre, Chairman, Planning & Development, Government
of Punjab/ Additional Chief Secretaries, Government of Sindh, NWFP and
Balochistan and Mr. Shaukat Hayat Durrani, Additional Secretary (EA), Prime
Minster's secretariat. While the seven members from the private sector include
Mr. Farid Rehman, Peshawar, Dr. Akmal Hussain Lahore, Dr. Salman Shah Lahore,
Mr. Shahid Kardar Lahore, Dr. Mushtaq Mirani, Hyderabad, Ms. Saadiqa
Salahuddin Karachi and Malik Naeem Khan from Quetta.