Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Mahreen Anwar Raja on Saturday said that holding Senate election in-time was a great achievement of the PPP-led government.
Talking to Pakistan Television (PTV), she congratulated the nation and all stakeholders, specially the president and the prime minister of Paksitan on victory in the Senate election. She said that in-time election was a result of reconciliation policy of the PPP leadership.
She said that there were some elements in the media that created hype for halting the Senate election, but their designs could not be successful and the Senate elections were held as per the schedule. The general elections would also be held on time, she added.
Mahreen, while rejecting all the allegations of horse trading in the Senate elections, said that PPP believed in free and fair elections, which was the real beauty of democracy. “Today we are on table with India for trade and other core issues just because of the continuation of democracy in the country,” she said.
30 lawbreakers, nine
gamblers arrested: Rawalpindi police on Saturday claimed to have arrested 30 outlaws and nine gamblers from various areas of the city and recovered 701 bottles of liquor, 3320 grams charas, three 30-bor pistols with 11 rounds from them.
According to a police spokesman, 30 lawbreakers were held in different raids. Meanwhile, Gujar Khan police, on a tip-off arrested nine gamblers identified as Safdar, Shehzad, Ashfaq, Abdul Jabbar, Dildar, Munawar, Shahid, Kamran and Tanveer from a gambling den. The police recovered Rs 25,935, eight mobile phones. Separate cases have been registered against all the accused while investigation is underway.
TMA acts against tyre shops to check dengue: The tehsil municipal administration (TMA) on Saturday confiscated two trucks loaded with goods from various city markets in its campaign against encroachments while 21 shopkeepers were also fined. Over 180 tyres from tyre shops were also confiscated as the city district government had strictly warned the shopkeepers that tyres, new and old, should be properly packed and covered which would help reduce the risk of the dengue spread.
The anti-encroachment operation with campaign to check tyre shops was launched on the directives of Administrator Saif Anwar Jappa.
During the operation, TMA fined 21 shopkeepers and confiscated 180 tyres.
