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Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Federal Minister for Privatisation & Investment
and chairman of the "Prime Minister's Task Force on Poverty Alleviation and
Employment Generation" will preside over a meeting of PAEG on Wednesday
January 7, 2004 at Islamabad. The Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali
constituted the Task Force. Prior to the finalization of the recommendations
within a month PAEG is involving all the stakeholders for their views,
suggestions and proposals.
The Task Force is in the process of reviewing the current status of poverty
and unemployment in the country, assessing 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 to formulate its recommendations for an implementation
strategy. The Task Force is now preparing a draft presentation for the Prime
Minister for the poverty reduction and employment generation.
The Task Force includes Nine members from public sector 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
Minister's secretariat and seven members from the private sector 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.