LAHORE:The opposition PML-N on Monday submitted a requisition with the Punjab Assembly secretariat to convene a session of the provincial house for discussing the ongoing price hike. Samiullah Khan, Khalil Tahir Sindhu, Khwaja Imran Nazir, Pir Ashraf Rasool, Mian Abdur Rauf and Saadia Taimur submitted the requisition on the direction of opposition leader Hamza Shehbaz Sharif. The opposition MPAs said that they would hold accountable the PTI government both inside and outside the house for…
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MULTAN: Estranged leader of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Jahangir Tareen has for the first time publicly admitted that he had played a key role in the formation of the party’s government in Punjab by using his aircraft to approach the independents who had won in different constituencies of the province. Mr Tareen made the confession while addressing a gathering at Kahror Pacca tehsil of Lodhran district on Monday in which he took the government…
LAHORE: “The government lacks the capacity and vision to put the economy on track as bad governance, unemployment and inflation have bought endless miseries to the life of people,” says Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) emir Sirajul Haq. Talking to workers after leading funeral prayers of the Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan at Mansoora, he said the PTI government failed to fix these problems. The JI chief also paid tribute to the late hero for his national services. A…
Lahore-Punjab Governor Ch Sarwar said on Sunday that demand of the political opponents for holding early elections was not valid in any case. In a media statement issued here from Governor House, the governor said: “The government will complete its constitutional term. The role of Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan in making Pakistan a nuclear power will always be remembered. He was truly a hero of the Pakistani nation.” The governor maintained: “Since the PTI has…
LAHORE : Owners of flour mills in the provincial capital have increased the price of whole wheat flour by Rs2 per kg as official release of grains has yet to be started. With latest revision in rates, whole wheat would now cost Rs82 per kg to consumers. According to chakki owners, the price of wheat in the open market reached at Rs2,600 per 40kg against official price of Rs1,950. Chakki owners were of the view…
ISLAMABAD: The provinces of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) as well as the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) might face severe flour shortage the next week as the Flour Mills Association (FMA) has announced observing strike in Punjab from Tuesday, Oct 12, if their demands were not accepted immediately. According to a press release issued on Saturday, the mills’ owners said the government was not listening to their demands, and they had no other option but to…
LAHORE: The Punjab government has for the first time issued warning notices to six administrative secretaries and appreciation letters to six others over released funds’ utilisation in the first quarter of the current financial year. The review was carried out on Oct 4. The chief minister’s displeasure has been conveyed to the administrative secretaries of the Environment Protection Department; the Human Rights & Minorities Affairs Department; the Mines and Minerals Department; the Auqaf & Religious…
LAHORE: The Punjab government has barred college teachers from using social media platforms and speaking to the conventional media. The Directorate of Public Instructions (DPI) Colleges, Punjab has issued directions on the use of the social media by government servants to all public sector divisional director colleges and principals. A notification includes directions to ban the college teachers from using social and conventional media and said it was against the rules of service. It further…
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Wednesday took strict notice of high prices of wheat flour prevailing in Sindh and Balochistan and urged the chief secretaries to start daily release of wheat for stabilising its prices. The federal government is constantly criticising the provincial governments, especially Sindh, for not matching the price fixed by Punjab, which is releasing wheat to flour mills at Rs1,950 per 40 kg. As a result, wheat flour is costlier in…
Panic gripped people in south Punjab as the Punjab government has decided closure of three key departments Finance, Home and Planning, The News has learnt. The proposed closure of departments will be finalised in the next Punjab cabinet meeting, a PTI elected representative disclosed. Political pundits in south Punjab feared that the closure of departments would pave the way for winding up the South Punjab Administrative Secretariat (SPAS) in the coming days. The decision would…
Mission Punjab: op-ed by Khalid Bhatti in The News, Sep 12, 2021 (The writer is a freelance journalist).
The PPP has launched its third campaign to retake lost ground in Punjab. Unfortunately, the first two campaigns failed to bring the desired results. The PPP hasn’t been able to regain the electoral support it lost since the 2013 general elections. The crisis is much more serious and severe in central and northern Punjab compared to southern Punjab. The party was hoping to make a comeback in the 2018 general elections but the disastrous results…