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Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Federal Minister for Privatisation & Investment
will chair the second meeting of the "Prime Minister's Task Force on Poverty
Alleviation and Employment Generation" constituted by the Prime Minister Mir
Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Monday December 22, 2003 at Board of Investment
Conference Hall. The first meeting of PM Task Force on PAEG was held on
December 10, 2003. The Task Force will submit its recommendations to the
President and the Prime Minister in the given time.
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 acceleration in
the existing programmes, identify specific new initiatives and recommend
implementation strategy.
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.