Tag: Punjab

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has taken note of the fact that a number of retired officers are using official vehicles without authorisation while a large number of employees i.e. gardeners, drivers and police constables are also serving them. Similarly, the serving officers are using vehicles and services of such employees beyond their entitlement.
Punjab CM has directed that all administrative secretaries, heads of attached departments; autonomous,

LAHORE - A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Tuesday will hear a petition challenging appointment of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab Director General (DG) Rana Zahid Mehmood. On Monday, the LHC chief justice (CJ) directed the petitioner's counsel Azhar Siddique to file a new petition along with Zahid's appointment notification and other necessary documents.
The bench consisting of Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar and Justice Sheikh Ahmed Farooq heard the petition.

LAHORE - The Punjab cabinet, during its meeting on Monday, approved the draft bill of the Walled City of Lahore Act 2011. The meeting, chaired by Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif, also approved the draft bills of the Punjab Food Safety & Standard Authority Act 2011 and the Online Legislation Project for promoting public awareness about the laws of provincial departments. The meeting also decided to enhance the quota of widows, martyrs, orphans and the disabled in the Aashiyana Housing Scheme

LAHORE - The Punjab government will make laws to ensure use of 100 percent iodised salt in the province, Punjab Health Parliamentary Secretary Saeed Elahi said on Monday.
He was addressing a media dissemination workshop at a local hotel. Saeed said that use of iodised salt prevents children and adults from various diseases and mental and physical complications.
The parliamentary secretary said that the Punjab government with collaboration of the Micronutrient Initiative and

LAHORE - Chief Justice of Nepal Ram Prasad Shreshta on Saturday visited the Punjab Judicial Academy and learnt about the training process of judicial officers in Pakistan. Punjab Judicial Academy Director General Justice (r) Tanvir Ahmed Khan briefed the Nepalese CJ and other members of his delegation about the functioning and achievements of the academy. The Lahore High Court (LHC) chief justice and other judges were also present on the occasion.

LAHORE - Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Friday that the real test of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML N) leadership lay ahead as to how it handled a strong and vocal opposition in Punjab.
"It will be interesting to see how the PML-N's 20-20 side matches against the experienced test side of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)," said the minister, using cricket analogy in a lighter tone during her visit to the offices of Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - Taking notice of statements that the Punjab government was functioning under a stay order granted by the Supreme Court, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday said that anyone intending to make such statements must first gather information from the Supreme Court registrar, "instead of maintaining a version which is not supported by the apex court's record."
The CJP said this while heading a five-member bench conducting hearing on a case

LAHORE - Information Minister Firdous Ashig Awan told reporters at Allama Iqbal International Airport on Friday that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would play a positive role as an opposition party in the Punjab Assembly and will point out any wrong steps by the Punjab government, but it would not do anything to harm democracy.
Criticising turncoat politics, which she called "lotacracy", the minister said that real democracy was restored to the country after a long struggle,

LAHORE - Punjab Ombudsman Khalid Mahmood concluded the hearing of an application filed by a complainant Zahid Nasim for the seat of Government Polytechnic Institute Kamalia lecturer on Friday. The Ombudsman observed that experience could not be compartmentalized in the categories of visiting, regular or part time and merit should be followed at any cost. Punjab Ombudsman during the hearing ordered Punjab TEVTA Chairman to appoint the rightful candidate as Lecturer (Math) on

SIALKOT - Punjab Food Minister Abdul Ghafur said the provincial government was striving to ensure the transparent examination system across the province under the supervision of Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif. He said this while talking to the journalists after visiting a matriculation examination center in Daska.
Members provincial assembly (MPAs) Yahiya Gul Nawaz Ghuman, Rana Arif Iqbal Harnah and Jamil Ashraf Baryar, Gujranwala Division Board of Intermediate and

LAHORE - The Punjab government is facing a deficit of Rs 136 billion owing to gross financial indiscipline in the province. "Of the outstanding amount, Rs 51 billion have been converted into a loan, while another Rs 37 billion have been obtained from the State Bank of Pakistan to run the government's affairs," PPP's former Punjab finance minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira said on Thursday while exposing the ill practices of the Punjab government during the last three years.
Talking to

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa said on Wednesday that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would neither destabilise the provincial government nor strive to topple it. While visiting the ailing Arshad Ghurki, brother of Khaild Ghurki, at National Hospital in Defence, the governor said that he would not deviate from the constitutional limits. Arshad Ghurki had a heart attack at the funeral of Khalid Ghurki and was under treatment.
Khosa said that PPP was following

LAHORE - All Pakistan Muslim League Chief Coordinator Shahbaz Hussain said that if the incumbent rulers could not improve their performance they should resign. Opposing the statement of Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif to unite the judiciary and military to tackle challenges, Hussain said that such 'irresponsible' statements were being aired to level ground for judicial martial law.
He said these statements were an open acknowledgment that the government had failed to

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved drafts of 17 amendment bills regarding Punjab Government Rules of Business-2011. He made these approvals in Punjab cabinet's meeting held under his chairmanship at Chief Minister's Secretariat here on Tuesday that would be presented before the provincial assembly for final approval. The chief minister also issued instructions for setting up a cabinet committee for the strict implementation of minimum wages law in the light of

LAHORE - The right-sizing drive of the Punjab government is superficial and counterproductive on and leaves hundreds of trained human resource in uncertainty, senior government officers told Pakistan Today on Monday. The Punjab government has abolished hundreds of senior posts not only in the districts, but in various administrative departments as well as part of its austerity drive. The step was taken to cut expenditure and use the freed up money for the rehabilitation of flood-hit

RAWALPINDI - Punjab Governor Latif Khosa has said that the federation and Punjab did not have any difference of opinion in the Raymond Davis case. Talking to reporters during his visit to Fatima Jinnah Women University, Khosa said he had good working relationship with the Punjab government. He said that the issuance of arrest warrant of Pervez Musharraf and the Raymond Davis case were sub judice matters and it would be better to wait for court decision.

LAHORE - Punjab Food Secretary Irfan Elahi has stated that all arrangements have been finalised to kick start the annual wheat procurement campaign in April. He informed that the provincial government had fixed the wheat procurement target at 3.5 million tonnes. For this purpose, 376 procurement centers are to be established in different parts of the Punjab. These procurement centers could be enhanced according to the requirement, he added.
Elahi said that to facilitate the