Addressing a top-level meeting at the Jamaat's headquarter, Mansoora, Liaqat Baloch said the government was deliberately delaying a subject that had already been settled. He is leading the party in the absence of Sirajul Haq who is on a visit abroad.
On the same occasion, the chief of the Jamaat in Punjab complained that the provincial government was refusing to honour its commitments to sugarcane growers, forcing them to start agitation. Liaqat Baloch went on to accuse the federal government of dragging its feet on the reforms despite demands from opposition parties and from MNAs and senators representing FATA.
Until the implementation of the Sartaj Aziz report, he continued, the Jamaat will continue its own efforts for reforms in FATA. Without giving a date, he said the Jamaat would hold soon a consultative meeting at the national level seeking implementation of the proposed reforms.
The Jamaat's Punjab chief, Mian Maqsood Ahmed, also said that although the Punjab government had fixed the procurement price of sugarcane at Rs 180 per maund, the sugar mills were paying no more than Rs 140 per maund.
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