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Summary PM urges civil servants to demonstrate integrity discipline and impartiality.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday said that government is taking effective steps to remove the sense of deprivation of Balochistan province. He said that besides providing jobs to Baloch youths‚ the government is also working on a programme to provide vocational training to them.He said that youths have a role o play in development of the country.Addressing the award distribution ceremony at the civil servant academy in Lahore‚ he said the civil servants need to foster courage to stand up to the political pressure and take steps to purge the menace of corruption from the civil service which has badly tainted its image.Yusuf Raza Gilani has said the present government has made a paradigm shift in the political landscape by introducing the politics of consensus.The Prime Minister said that PPP-led government has succeeded in transforming the political divide in the country into a culture of harmony and accommodation.He said that our mission to achieve consensus on all issues of national interest will continue despite various factors which are usual in a democratic dispensation.Yusuf Raza Gilani said the federation has been strengthened by the restoration of 1973 constitution back to its true form. He said that the passage of 18th‚ 19th and 20th constitutional amendments have brought back the country to the parliamentary democracy.He said that the provinces have been empowered in the real sense to greater provincial autonomy and with devolution of powers to them. He said that today‚ all provinces enjoy unprecedented freedom in the decision making‚ administrative operations as well as the financial matters.He said that after months of negotiations‚ the 7th NFC Award was adopted which allocated chunks of the economic resources to the provinces.
