Pakistan Muslim League-N has welcomed Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's 'Yes' to implement the 10-point economic agenda of Nawaz Sharif presented last week.
Talking to Business Recorder on Sunday PML-N spokesman Siddiqul Farooque said: "The Prime Minister has taken a very good step by telephoning PML-N quaid to convey a positive response to his ten points programme for political and economic stability of the country".
He said: "This is a very positive political development, and PML-N and PPP coalition government in the country's biggest province has survived. There is now no need for us to say goodbye to PPP, and oust its provincial ministers from the Punjab cabinet." He said that Nawaz might receive a written reply from the Prime Minister soon for devising a mechanism for monitoring and implementating Nawaz's ten-point national programme. He said that Nawaz Sharif had appreciated Prime Minister's political acumen and maturity as PML-N's 72-hour deadline to the government to give a categorical "yes " or "no" was to expire at 6 pm on Monday.
He said that a three-member committee, to be headed by Senator Ishaq Dar, would contact the government for taking practical steps to implement the 10-point programme in 45 days.
It may be added that in his ten-point economic programme Nawaz had demanded withdrawal of increase in petroleum prices, mechanism to control electricity and gas prices and loadshedding, effective measures to control corruption, including ouster of corrupt ministers and corrupt officers from government departments, measures to provide relief to masses by checking the price hike, implementation on decisions of the Supreme Court, including its verdict against the NRO, 30 percent reduction in government's development expenses, reconstitution of the Election Commission, recovery of loans which were written off on political basis, ensuring security of the country, strengthening the standing committees of two houses of parliament, transparent probe into scams of the Punjab Bank, Insurance Corporation, Steel Mills and other mega scandals.