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Prime Minister Abbasi Reconstitutes CCI

August 17, 2017

ISLAMABAD, Aug 17 (INP): Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Thursday reconstituted Council of Common Interests (CCI). A statement issued here from Prime Minister House said that Prime Minister Abbasi had reconstituted CCI. It added that chief ministers of all four provinces, minister for inter-provincial coordination, minister for industries and productions and finance minister would be members of the Council. The council will be chaired by Prime Minister. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister has directed to immediately release funds from Sustainable Development Goals programme for electricity, gas and other schemes in South Punjab. He was talking to a delegation of PML (N) MNAs in Islamabad on Thursday. The Prime Minister said he will personally monitor progress of development schemes in the areas and MNAs from South Punjab can contact him anytime for resolution of public grievances. Those who attended the meeting included Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination Riaz Hussain Pirzada, Minister of State for Industries and Production Arshad Khan Leghari, MNAs Makhdoom Syed Ali Hassan Gilani, Syed Muhammad Asghar, Mr. Tahir Bashir Cheema, Sheikh Fayyaz ud Din, Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar, Mian Imtiaz Ahmad, Ms. Zeb Jaffer, Ms. Maiza Hameed and Mrs. Sabiha Nazir attended the meeting. Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab Ahmed was also present in the meeting. INP/AJ