Islamabad, (UNI): The rewarding of the top ten ministries for their performance by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has created bitterness within the ranks of the ruling Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf (PTI) after several frontline ministries were not included in the list leading to some federal cabinet members expressing reservations for being overlooked, Dawn reported on Saturday.
Some of the ministries that failed to find a place in the list were foreign affairs, finance, information technology, housing, information and environment.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who is also the vice president of the ruling party, wrote a letter to Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Establishment Arbab Shahzad who had set up the criteria on which the top ten ministries were judged and a subsequent report presented to the PM, expressing serious reservations over placing his ministry at the 11th spot.
Even the two allies of the ruling PTI, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), which held the IT and housing ministries, respectively, expressed their displeasure for being left out of the list despite their “outstanding performance”.
MQM-Pakistan chief Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui who heads the IT ministry said said that such reports and surveys judging the performance of the government should be conducted by the media or the people and not by the government itself.
PML-Q whose lawmaker heads the Housing Ministry, are also said to be unhappy for not being acknowledged by the PM, while claiming that their ministry was doing its best to meet the targets of providing affordable housing facilities to the people, as desired by the prime minister.
Similarly, Environment Ministry people said despite launching the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami programme, the ministry was not considered among the best performers.
