PM reshuffled cabinet in the public interest: Firdous Awan

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Information and Broadcasting, Firdous Ashiq Awan, has said that for the ‘first time’ ‘any prime minister’ had reshuffled the cabinet in public interest.

Speaking in the ARY News programme Aitraaz Hai hosted by Adil Abbasi on Friday, Awan said changes were always for good, and one should always embrace them happily.

‘Some decisions need to be taken in the wider interest of the nation and the public and the prime minister is ready to take any step for the welfare of people’, she said.

Reflecting on what lies ahead in her new role, she said that Fawad Chaudhry tried to run the ministry as it needed to despite ‘difficult situation’. “I will work with the media on partnership-basis”, she added.

She underlined that position of a managing director of Pakistan Television held immense importance in the government’s information team. “There had been a void of teamwork in the past; solo flights are never good for the institution,” she remarked.

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Calling Asad Umar ‘an asset’ of the party, she said that the former finance minister was still part of PTI, but that the country was in need of an economic expert who could form partnerships with global financial institutions, but said that

Ms Awan said any government member could be retained on a position only if they performed. She castigated that Punjab was thrown into bankruptcy in the past due to massive corruption.

She opined that only that individual who has been a part of the national security strategy could work best in the Interior Ministry. “National Action Plan is directly linked to the Interior Ministry, and it is the prerogative of the prime minister to keep any ministerial portfolio with him”, she said.