Political parties reject new cabinet as 'old medicine with new label'

Expressing disappointment over the formation of new federal cabinet by the PPP-led government, opposition parties termed it as 'mere cosmetic change." It is nothing more than old medicine with new label which would not heal the nation's wounds, said MNA Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, a central leader of PML-N.
He said a lot now depends on how the new cabinet would act to ensure that the governance was improved to steer the country out of a painful economic mess with all macroeconomic indicators suggesting tough times ahead.
Javed Hashmi said the move would produce desirable results only if it was coupled with implementation of other demands of his party. "There are other important things as well. They must also be acted upon," said Hashmi.
PML-N MNA Rana Mehmood-ul-Hassain Chairman of NA's standing committee on shipping and ports said that we did not go into the question of welcoming it. The new cabinet is of course lean but more important is whether it would be clean as well.He also said there wasn't any significant hope of change if the decision of reducing the cabinet was not supplemented with the eradication of corruption.Majority of political parties has rejected the newly 'truncated' cabinet on Friday calling it an "old wine in new bottom." However, ANP categorically supported the new cabinet while MQM gives a diplomatic response to the issue.
Talking to this correspondent, the senior leaders of mainstream political parties straightway rejected the induction of 22 ministers in the new cabinet saying that this was an exercise conducted to deviate attention from the real issues of survival the Pakistani public confronted today.
Nawabzada Mansoor Ahmed Khan Chief of Pakistan Democratic Party said, "This is old wine in new bottle. Nothing has changed. All those ministers who had earned bad reputation due to their notorious deeds are back in the saddle.