March 14; PILDAT delivered a One-Day Course on Public Policy and Political Parties for the leadership of Pakistan Peoples Party.

With Syed Naveed Qamar, MNA and PPPP Parliamentary Leader in the National Assembly of Pakistan, in the chair, experts included Mr. Saeed Ahmed Qureshi, 
Chairman, Social Policy Development Centre who presented a Civil Servant’s perspective of Policy Formulation & Political Parties, Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar, who delivered a presentation on International Case Studies on Policy Development in Political Parties in his capacity of a former British MP and Senator Sherry Rehman, Senior Leader of PPP. An Overview of the course was presented by Mr. Ahmed Bilal Mehboob, President, PILDAT.

Representatives from the Peoples Party joining the course included (alphabetical order by first name): Mr. Aurangzaib Kakar, Member PPP Balochistan Council, Ms. Malaika Raza, Member PPP, Mr. Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, PPP Punjab Information Secretary, Ms. Nafisa Shah, MNA, Ms. Natasha Daultana, PPP South Punjab Secretary General, Mr. Saleem Haider, Member PPP, Former Minister, Mr. Samad Khan, Member PPP Balochistan Council, Senator Sehar Kamran, Mr. Shahjahan Sarfraz Raja, Member PPP and Mr. Zummrad Khan, Member PPP.

This course was delivered by PILDAT under the project ‘Capacity Building of Political Parties to deliberate, analyse and formulate public policies’, which is supported by the Australian Government.