Zardari collects PPP legislators resignations
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari — who is also the co-chairman of the ruling Pakistan People’s party (PPP) — has collected resignations from all the PPP parliamentarians in the centre and the provinces as a sign of ‘loyalty certificate’, political source said.
It has been a practice of the PPP leadership to get prior resignations from the members of the National Assembly, Senate and the provincial Assemblies as an oath of the PPP members that the party chief can use it at his/her will.
The previous resignations were however, addressed to Benazir Bhutto, the PPP chief and two-time Prime Minister who was assassinated in 2007. Mr Zardai was subsequently elected as the co-chairman with his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari elevated as the chairman of the ruling party. Recently, Mr Zardari directed all the PPP MPs to send him their resignations so that he can use it anytime he wants to.
“The resignations have never been used and probably will never be used. It is just a sign of trust in the leadership,” a PPP leader told this newspaper.
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Saudi to mine uranium for nuke plants?
Dubai : Saudi Arabia may mine and enrich uranium to fuel power plants if it embarks on a civilian nuclear energy programme, a newspaper report citing a draft nuclear strategy for the Kingdom has said.
According to the report, Saudi Arabia would want to play a role in as many of the stages of generating nuclear power as possible eventually. “Enrichment could happen there and the same with mining uranium. But outsourcing will happen initially,” David Cox, president for energy at the UK branch of Finnish management consultancy Poyry was quoted by Arab News as saying. Saudi Arabia instructed Poyry to evaluate the economic and technical feasibility of its involvement in all stages of the nuclear power generation cycle. “They want to be involved in as many aspects as possible and our study is to evaluate what part of it is possible at a reasonable economic cost,” Mr Cox said. —PTI
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