NewsPCID Meets with MILF Chairman

The Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy (PCID) met with Chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) last Saturday, May 25, to discuss the economic situation in Muslim Mindanao. The Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB), signed last October 15, 2012, between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the MILF, and the subsequent Transition Commission created to draft the Basic Law to replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao has provided an opportunity for economists, academics and other concerned citizens to advocate and advance policies on economic reform for inclusion in what would become the Bangsamoro Basic Law.

PCID was represented by its President, Ms. Amina Rasul-Bernardo, Secretary Prof. Moner Bajunaid and Convenor Urooj Malik. Also present in the meeting was Foundation for Economic Freedom’s Dr. Vicente Paqueo, a former World Bank Senior Economist.