Gilani launches ‘PM in Dialogue with Nation’
Asim Yasin
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will launch a new initiative ‘Prime Minister in Dialogue with the Nation’ from tomorrow (Monday) that will have four interactive sessions with eminent personalities from a cross-section of the society including writers, poets, intellectuals, artists, actors, educationists, social workers and media persons with focus on social issues.
“The discourse which will be first of its kind by any political leader in Pakistan will lead to a meaningful exchange of ideas and views among different segments of society,” said Cabinet Secretary Nargis Sethi, while talking to The News.
The recommendations emanating from this unique dialogue will be incorporated by the premier in his speech on August 14, 2011 and these will ultimately become part of an overall policy to address the menace of terrorism, militancy and extremism as only this can translate Quaid-e-Azam’s dream into reality of making Pakistan a truly modern and progressive state among the comity of nations.
Nargis Sethi pioneered the novel idea of ‘Prime Minister in Dialogue with the Nation’ that was endorsed by Prime Minister Gilani and the proposal that would be emerged from the interactions will be incorporated in the prime minister’s speech on Independence Day.
Prime Minister Gilani in the dialogue will encourage free discussion on all issues confronted by the society and also strengthen present government’s policy of consensus and reconciliation amongst all the stakeholders.
In the first round, the prime minister will hold the interaction with the eminent writers, poets and intellectuals of the country.
In the second round, Prime Minister Gilani will hold the interactions with artists, actors, singers, painters, sculptures and performers. In the third round of interactions, he will interact with the vice chancellors of universities and educationists. While in the fourth session of the interaction, he will interact with the eminent social workers and those media person who write on the social issues.
Source: The News
Date:7/24/2011
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