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PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain Sunday announced to table 19th Constitutional Amendment in the parliament, saying his party had expressed its dissent on some clauses of the 18th amendment and now it wanted to do away with those all.Addressing a press conference here at his residence, Shujaat asked the coalition government to shift its focus on resolving the serious issues being faced by the masses.The government should not make the mistakes committed in the 18th Amendment rather it should focus on resolving the issues including price hike, inflation and load shedding, he asserted.He said his party had raised its concerns and had also filed their note of dissent on at least four clauses.Elaborating the amendments his party was going to table in the upcoming parliamentary session, Shujaat said though education was a provincial subject, hence, his party had a clear vision vis--vis the curriculum.The curriculum of the educational institutions should remain with the federation and it should reflect national cohesion and the ideology of Pakistan and in accordance with the teachings of Islam. This would ensure that no institution could deviate from the basic ideology of the state and would also safeguard the religious values. On renaming NWFP as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Shujaat said his party was against renaming the province on lingual basis and had raised this issue time and again.He said the third amendment his party wanted to table was about article 63 which had been amended through 18th amendment.
