Islamabad: January 28, 2012. (PCP) Convener World Minorities Alliance J Salik has urged Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to honor his government’s commitment to allot residential plots to the residents of Kachi Aabadis and homeless tenants. Addressing a convention of over 300 dwellers of Kachi Aabadis and homeless tenants, J Salik regretted that despite Prime Minister’s announcement on March 30, 2008, that 5 marla and 80 square yard plots would be allotted to them in rural and urban areas, no action had been taken by the government in this regard. J Salik adopted a unique way of registering his protest against Prime Minister’s failure to fulfill his commitment by placing on the presiding chair a placard inscribed with the slogan ‘Was Prime Minister’s promise false?’ He claimed that government’s failure to honor its commitment had disappointed over 50 million residents of Kachi Aabadis and homeless tenants. J Salik said shelter is a basic right of every citizen under the Constitution of Pakistan as well as the United Nations Charter of Human Rights. He urged the government to honor its commitments in this regard. Protesting against creation of 8 new federal ministries including the Interfaith Ministry J Salik regretted that there was no representation of minorities in the federal cabinet. He said PPP Senator Raza Rabbani had termed creation of new ministries unconstitutional under the 18th Amendment, but the government had paid no heed to his objection. He asked Senator Raza Rabbani to either assert his position or resign from his Senate seat and Chairmanship of the Defense Committee of the Parliament. Besides Kachi Aabadi dwellers and homeless tenants, the convention was attended by a large number of representatives of labor unions, journalists, human rights activists and intellectuals.