Altaf invites suggestions on putting country back on track

By our correspondent

KARACHI: Muttahida Chief Altaf Hussain has advised the Coordination Committee to prepare a working paper to resolve the problems of the people and has advised intellectuals and technocrats to submit their suggestions at Nine-Zero.

He tendered this advice while addressing the coordination committee members at Nine-Zero vide a telephonic address here the other day. He said Muttahida was the third biggest political party of the country and firmly believed in democracy and it was its duty to present a workable and practicable paper to the nation.

The suggestions to Muttahida should be as under: How the devolution of power should take place; how loans should be repaid; what steps should be taken to increase the income of the country; devising a viable taxation system for the country; programme to develop industrial and agriculture growth; ending unemployment; provincial autonomy; programme for Muttahida in the local administration; promoting cultural pluralism; how relations can be strengthened between the Army and civilian government; code of conduct for the political parties; constitutional reforms; protecting the rights of women; Kashmir issue; relations with neighbouring countries; MQM policy on the nuclear issue; and other miscellaneous issues. Altaf has asked the committee to prepare, as soon as possible, the working papers on the above issues. The fax number that the suggestions are to be submitted at is 6329955.