Punjab Assembly Speaker Rana Iqbal has sought report from the Punjab government for allowing ‘blue-eyed’ retired bureaucrats illegal occupation of GOR-I residences and luxurious official vehicles. The Punjab Assembly also passed resolutions regarding construction of boundary walls around graveyards and asked banks to provide loan up to 50 percent for agriculture.
Questions about excise department were on the agenda of PA Khalil Tahir Sindhu. Shaukat Basra once again came hard on provincial government for allowing retired bureaucrats residences in GOR-I. Following a point of order against Shaukar Basra, Rana Iqbal assured him that they would probe the issue and its report would be furnished to the house within two days. Another PPP member Col (R) Naveed moved the attention of the speaker towards a former MPA who had recently joined PML-N and was heading Qabza Group in Bahawalpur. He claimed that the Cholistan Development Authority had sent a report to the Chief Minister Secretariat against Qabza Group Mafia involved in occupying official land in Cholistan, but no action had been initiated against the powerful politician. He appealed to the CM to take stern action against such mafias. The assembly also took up a number of call attention notices and adjournment motions.
PML-N Zia Ullah Shah tabled resolution regarding construction of boundary walls around graveyards. He said that the incidents of shroud theft, black magic and other wrong practices in the graveyard premises demanded concrete measures by the government. PML-Q unification bloc member Sheikh Alla ud Din moved resolution stressing the federal government to allow banks for providing loan up to 50 percent for agriculture sector was also passed.
Later, talking to media outside PA, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sana Ullah Khan said that the PPP MPAs should keep in mind the case of Babar Awan while casting their votes in the Senate elections. He said that a person accused of corruption and contempt of court should avoid contesting the polls. He also said that cases against Babar Awan are pending in the courts and he could be disqualified.
