Raja Pervaiz Asharaf, architect of defunct rental power projects, has been given the charge of Minister of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT) in the recent expansion of federal cabinet.
It is an interesting development and must be amazing and shocking for many in IT and Telecom industry in particularly and for masses in general, while most of them believe that it is better to be a ministry without a minister or run by bureaucrats and technocrats rather than Raja Pervaiz as federal minister of IT and Telecom.
The appointment of Pervaiz Ashraf, the main character of the infamous rental power project scam, raised eyebrows of many people as the apex court has already directed the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to take action against him on power rental case.
Pervaiz Ashraf will be the fifth person who assumed the office of Ministry of IT and Telecommunication in less than four year of the present government.
Earlier, Sardar Latif Khosa, the present Governor Punjab, Sardar Assef (now joined PTI), Babar Awan, former law minister were also designated in MoITT. Besides Prime Minister who himself served for long as Minister-In-charge and chaired couple of meetings in nearly three years.
think again Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and Minister of IT and Telecom – kya ye khola tayzad nahee.