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LAHORE - The drone attack on a jirga of tribal elders in North Waziristan is a direct attack on the country's sovereignty, said PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and senior leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi. In a press statement issued on Friday, the PML-Q leaders declared drone attacks a serious violation of human rights unacceptable to Pakistan. Both demanded the government take concrete measures to stop future attacks.

LAHORE - Health Parliamentary Secretary Dr Saeed Elahi said the Punjab Institute of Mental Health (PIMH) would be upgraded up to international standards by providing latest equipment and adding new buildings. He said that recommendations would be sent to the Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif for early construction of the auditorium, gymnasium and women's rehabilitation centre at PIMH. He expressed these views while addressing the concluding ceremony of Annual Sports Day of PIMH

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Punjab President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi had called a provincial parliamentary party meeting on Friday to show off the party's strength in the assembly, party sources told Pakistan Today on Wednesday. The sources said that the meeting was not only aimed at sending a message to opponents about the fate of the dissident Unification Bloc, but also to devise a strategy for the upcoming provincial assembly session. The sources said that the

LAHORE - The Punjab chief minister's (CM) wrong policies have deprived thousands of students from appearing in the Matriculation examinations, former Punjab CM Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said on Monday. The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader said that the "revolutionary education policies" of the CM have put the future of thousands of students at stake. He said that the authorities concerned had made the students suffer on the issue of roll number slips while the CM was busy in

LAHORE - Punjab's physically challenged children are being deprived of facilities they were granted during the previous government, former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi said on Saturday. The Punjab government has denied zakat to orphans since 2008 and now has refused to help support the disabled which was condemnable, said Elahi, senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q.
He said that these decisions come in contempt of the Punjab governments trumpeting of the

LAHORE - Punjab Parliamentary Secretary for Health Dr Saeed Elahi has said that Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif is a great admirer of the services of young doctors and all out measures are being taken for the solution of their problems. During the last 16 years, first time the present government regularized the services of more than four thousand medical officers and two thousand consultants, he said.
These views were expressed by him while addressing a reception

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday issued summons for Moonis Elahi, son of former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi, in the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam case. FIA Additional Director General (ADG) Zafar Qureshi said the FIA had issued summons to Moonis to appear before the FIA investigation team to explain his involvement in the NICL scam.
"The FIA team has called him for investigation but if he does not appear before the

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was informed on Monday that an accused who embezzled Rs 5 billion in the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam had told investigators that he had given Rs 220 million to Moonis Elahi, son of former Punjab chief minister Pervez Elahi, from the plundered money.
A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was hearing a suo motu case against alleged corruption of

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif should have given a 12-point agenda to his younger brother, as the Punjab CM was promoting horse-trading in the province, former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said on Sunday.
Addressing a press conference at his residence, Elahi said that the Punjab government was directionless while corruption and bad governance were also prevailing in Punjab. He said that the Punjab government has lost Rs 7 billion

KARACHI - MQM chief Altaf Hussain telephoned PML-Q leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi and AML chief Sheikh Rashid on Sunday and informed them about the reasons which compelled the MQM to the treasury benches.
During the conversation, Hussain assured the two leaders that despite the MQM's recent move, his party would continue fighting for the rights of the people.
"The MQM will keep raising voice against the government's anti-public decisions despite being part of federal

LAHORE - Nurses of the Children Hospital blocked the Mall today asking for a special allowance and monthly stipend.
Punjab Health Parliamentary Secretary Dr Saeed Elahi said the government is resolving nurses' problems on priority basis and for the first time, present government has regularized services of 7,500 nurses working on contract basis and has recruited 2,000 nurses recently. Dr Elahi, in a statement, termed the protest by Children Hospital's nurses as unjustified and

LAHORE - Health Parliamentary Secretary Dr Saeed Elahi said though electricity generators have been provided to hospitals on the instructions of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif but hospitals should be exempted from gas load shedding as Punjab can not produce gas.
In a press statement, he said that electricity and gas crisis has not only damaged the national economy but has affected thousands of patients under treatment in various hospitals. He said a discriminatory attitude

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) Senior Central Leader Moonis Elahi said that the people of Punjab are the biggest victims of the 'target killings wave' which has now engulfed the whole country.
Referring to the statement made by the Sindh Home Minister on Monday and the recent report of the Human Watch Pakistan which cites the murders of 12 educators of Punjabi origin living in Baluchistan, Moonis Elahi expressed serious concern and dismay at the unfortunate rise in

LAHORE: After teachers and students, farmers would be the next target of the Punjab government, former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said on Saturday.
He made these remarks while chairing a meeting of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Nankana chapter office bearers at the PML House. Elahi said that while people were dying of hunger, Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif was ruthlessly using the government machinery to silence the voices of the oppressed.
The PML-Q

LAHORE: Former Punjab chief minister and PML-Q leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that it was "almost impossible" to work with PML-N leaders Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif.
Talking to reporters after offering condolences to the family of late Haji Maqsood Butt on Saturday, Elahi said the government was at the verge of financial collapse owing to faulty governance in Punjab.
He said if the PPP parted ways with the PML-N, Shahbaz would be back in Jati Ummrah. Elahi said price

LAHORE: PML-Q shall resist the Reformed General Sales tax (RGST) in the Punjab Assembly, with a showdown to be expected in both the provincial and the National Assembly, Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, former Punjab chief minister and senior Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid leader declared.
Punjab Assembly Parliamentary Committee meeting held on Friday at his residence. Elahi said that the "donkey pump" chief minister was duping the poor public once again on the RGST matter. He promised to

ISLAMABAD: PML-Q leader Pervaiz Elahi lacks personal charisma of other major political leaders, but his political instincts and organisational skills more than compensate for the deficiency, former US ambassador Anne W Patterson was quoted by WikiLeaks as saying.
"The Pakistan Muslim League has unofficially selected former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi as its candidate for prime ministership following 2008 national election. Elahi lacks the personal charisma of other major