Tag: Punjab

LAHORE - Punjabi Language Movement (PLM) staged a protest outside the Lahore Press Club on Sunday, and demanded that Punjabi language should not be discriminated and students should be given basic education in Punjabi.
Speaking on the occasion, PLM Convener Chaudhry Nazeer Kahut said, "Punjab wants its mother tongue back. The 150-year old undeclared and unofficial ban on basic education in Punjab should be abolished and systematic cleansing of the language must be stopped. We

LAHORE - The PML-N government in Punjab has decided to induct as many as four ministers in the provincial cabinet from the Unification Bloc after seeing off the PPP from the provincial cabinet. Unification Bloc sources claimed on Saturday that the induction was likely to be made on February 24.
They said the PML-N leadership had agreed on conferring four ministries to the bloc against the demand of six portfolios in the provincial cabinet. They said all was set to bring the bloc

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 - The Punjab government has started the process of abolishing top revenue posts in districts and tehsils across the province, Pakistan Today has learnt. According to details, there are a total of 36 executive district officers (EDO) revenue and DO (R) posts in all districts, while nearly 140 deputy district officers (DDO) (R) are working across all tehsils of Punjab.
The provincial government has already initiated the "downsizing" drive and slashed various posts in grades

LAHORE - Some close encounters were witnessed in the Raaziq Punjab Cup Polo Tournament 2011, with State Life, Askari Insurance and Guard Group/Diamond Paints staging victories here at the Lahore Polo Club ground on Thursday. Malcom Bowrick hit four goals while Ahmed Ali Tiwana bagged two as State Life edged Fernando Quinto Bourdieu-led Ciro's Pomodoro/Al Khan 6-5.
Shah Shamyl Alam and Fernando shared two goals while Iftikhar Ali Khan Simba scored one for Pomodoro. Master Paints,

LAHORE - A decision was taken on Monday to enforce strict measures to check 'obscene' dances, dual meaning sentences and vulgarity in commercial dramas and stage shows and owners of theatres and cinemas would be held responsible for violation of this code of conduct.
This decision was taken in a meeting chaired by Punjab Culture Minister Dr Tanvirul Islam Rana. The Punjab home special secretary informed the meeting that an amended draft of the Drama Act 2010 has been finalised

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khan Khosa has assured MQM of its constitutional right regarding its plan to hold a procession on April 10 at Minar-e-Pakistan. The governor said he was hopeful that no objection would be raised from any quarter about MQM's plan to hold a gathering at Minar e Pakistan.
Khosa was taking to media after meeting with a delegation of senior leadership of MQM including Dr Farooq Sattar, Babar Ghouri, Raza Haroon and others.

LAHORE - The Punjab government has written to the Inter-Provincial Coordination Committee (IPCC) of the federal government to take up measures to revive the old system of magistracy in Punjab, Pakistan Today has learnt. In the letter, the provincial government has requested the centre to take up the matter and "make relevant amendments" in the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) to revive the old system of magistracy in the province.
The federal government abolished the magistracy

LAHORE - The Pakistan Olympics Association on Saturday allocated the 32nd National Games to Punjab and the 4th Inter-Provincial Games to Balochistan. Both the events were allocated on rotation basis. The National Games will most probably be held after 2012 Ramazan and the Inter-provincial Games will be staged by the end of the current year. Special emphasis was laid on anti-doping policy and the federations were asked to make room for mandatory dope test while holding events.
The

LAHORE - The face-off between Defense Housing Authority (DHA) and Punjab government on the jurisdiction issue is likely to end as Punjab government is heading to hush up the brawl on the directions of PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif.
Sources privy to developments said that Punjab government and DHA had locked horns when the latter declared various lands in its controlled areas, through a notification published in the 2011 gazette of Pakistan and in return Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif termed

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

LAHORE: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) while welcoming the new small federal cabinet expressed the hope that the government under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani would take all possible steps for the welfare of poor people and save precious national exchequer.
They termed PPP Co-Chairman President Asif Ali Zardari's move to downsize the cabinet as a wise decision and said it would have positive impacts on the economy.
PPP Punjab President Imtiaz

FAISALABAD - Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has revealed that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has allocated Rs 14.50 billion for various health projects in the province. He was speaking at Circuit House Faisalabad after a briefing on the progress of the proposed second medical college in Faisalabad.
Punjab Medical College Principal Professor Dr Riaz Hussain Dubb briefed the audience that included Divisional Commissioner Tahir Hussain, District Coordination Officer (DCO) Nasim

LAHORE - Seven "dear ones" of the Punjab government given re-employment after retirement resigned on Wednesday to avoid any legal action. The resignations came in response to a Supreme Court ruling in January against the re-employment of retired officers. Moreover, the S&GAD had also sought details of all such employees in various government departments across Punjab.
Some of the officers offered re-employment contracts and who resigned on Wednesday are prosecution secretary Rana

SAHIWAL - Disasters leave many stories behind and some of these stories become examples of sacrifice while some show the cruelty and inhumanity of the society. Similarly, the recent floods in the country have given birth to different stories. Punjab Lok-Rahas has picked up a few stories from Rajanpur and enacted them in a 40-minute one-act play named Mahno Kahani.
The play was performed in the lawns of Sahiwal Elementary College for Teachers on Tuesday while around 500 students

LAHORE - Punjab Agriculture Minister Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh has directed all Executive District Officers (EDO) to ensure availability of urea fertiliser in the market at government fixed rates. He warned that action would be taken against officers who fail to ensure fertilisers availability at fixed prices.
Aulakh issued these directives, while chairing a meeting of the Executive District Officers (EDOs) of Cotton Zone, here on Monday. The agriculture minister said that increase

LAHORE - Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) ministers would be ousted from the Punjab cabinet if federal government did not act upon Nawaz Sharif's 10-point agenda. Reiterating the PML-N's stance on Monday after visiting the Punjab Governor's House, he said that the party was working on a public welfare agenda and no delaying tactics would be tolerated in this regard.
Commenting on the deadline given by PPP Senior Minister Raja