Tag: Punjab

ISLAMABAD - The federal government on Wednesday appointed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Punjab Director Zafar Qureshi as the managing director of the Police Foundation. The Establishment Division has issued a notification in this regard.
Qureshi was heading the FIA team which is probing the NICL scam. A few days ago, Qureshi had requested FIA seniors to separate him from the inquiry committee, as the Chaudhrys of Gujrat had raised questions on his impartiality, however, he

LAHORE - The Punjab government is deliberating on shifting blasphemy convict Aasia Bibi to the Multan jail, as a measure to arrange better security for her, sources told Pakistan Today. The matter was taken up in a high profile meeting at the Punjab Assembly Secretariat on Wednesday. The meeting chaired by Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah was also attended by the IGP, prisons IG, home secretary and other senior officials.
The meeting was convened considering sensitivity of the

LAHORE - The Punjab government on Tuesday transferred a number of officers. Fakharuz Zaman Ali Cheema, deputy secretary, Information, Culture & Youth Affairs Department has been transferred and posted as general manager finance & administration, Technical Education & Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA), on deputation basis against a vacant post. Gulzar Ahmad, district officer (Revenue), Nankana Sahib, has been transferred and posted as senior administration officer in office of the

LAHORE - In Punjab assembly's 22nd session Punjab Education Minister Mian Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman came under fire from opposition as well as government members on Monday for provincial government's new educational policy. Addressing the house the minister said that the government would review its policy relating to the rationalisation of the schools.
He said that the government had adopted rationalisation policy to run all small schools, which did not have proper staff or

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Secretary (CS) Nasir Mehmood Khosa on Monday directed the provincial health and finance secretaries to deliberate on demands of young doctors. A delegation of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) called on Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif a few days ago and presented their demands including a special pay package for doctors, pay protection and increasing slots for doctors on house job. The CM had constituted a committee consisting of all stakeholders to

LAHORE - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has convened a meeting of the Council of Common Interest (CCI) on Tuesday to discuss the issue of gas supply to the industrial sector in Punjab.
Gilani made the decision after he discussed the gas supply issue with Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif at the Prime Minister's House on Sunday. Sources said both leaders discussed the current political situation, as well as matters pertaining to security and economic challenges faced by the

LAHORE - Punjab will get a fifty percent share from the amount earned by Pakistan Railways property sale in the province. This was decided in the meeting of a special committee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Pakistan railways (PR) held on Saturday at PR headquarters.
The committee directed all the provinces to clear off railways outstanding payments within 30 days. Railway authorities were directed to get the railway land vacated from illegal possession. The committee

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leaders have declared the Punjab governor Sardar Latif Khosa's announcement of meeting with Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif, a beginning of new era of political reconciliation in Punjab.
They said that PPP wanted to avoid politics of confrontation so that government could concentrate on the resolution of masses problems. Former Minister for Information and Central leaders of PPP Khalid Ahmed Khan Kharal has said the PPP

KARACHI - Sindh Food Minister Nadir Magsi has urged the Federal government to either discontinue the supply of wheat flour (Atta) from Punjab to Sindh, province or allow the Sindh government to export its wheat abroad. The Sindh government has around 900,000 metric tones wheat in its warehouses, Magsi said at the Sindh Assembly (SA) session on Thursday, arguing that this needed to be sold at the earliest for fear of the food supplies frittering away "Sindh is unable to sell its wheat

LAHORE - Punjab College of Commerce and Punjab University Teaching Department have qualified for the final of the PU Inter-collegiate Badminton Championship that will be played today at the newly-constructed Gymnasium Hall of the university.
In the first semi-final, Punjab College of Commerce defeated Punjab University Law College 3-0. In singles Faizan beat Aaun Ali, Mohammad Shan beat Zafar and Faizan and Irfan beat Aaun and Zafar in the doubles.
In the second

LAHORE - Another six matches were played on day two of the Khayaban-e-Amin Media Cup Cricket Tournament on Thursday. ATV, CNBC, APP, Waqt News and ARY won their matches to move to the second round.
The second day of the tournament started with an exhibition match between Punjab Assembly XI and Sponsors XI. Parliamentarians made 73 runs Allah Rakha 33 and Imran 23 were the prominent batsmen. Khayaban-e-Amin, in reply could manage 68 runs. The Parliamentarians in their second

LAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), the main opposition party in the Punjab Assembly (PA), criticised the Punjab government for increasing inflation in the province saying that it has become a fashion to blame former regimes for justifying poor governance and mismanagement. Opposition members of the provincial assembly (MPA) asked the treasury benches what they had done for the masses since the last years except for blaming the previous government for all "ills" adding

LAHORE - Punjab Seed Council has approved for general cultivation eighteen new varieties of various crops including one wheat variety ARRI-10, one sugarcane variety CPF-246 and one paddy variety Basmati-515.
The approval of these varieties was accorded in 40th meeting of Punjab Seed Council held at Agriculture House chaired by Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh, Minister for Agriculture, Punjab. Mr. Ameer Khatak Additional Secretary Agriculture Punjab, Muzafar Mahmood Managing Director

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday appointed Latif Khosa governor of Punjab on the advice of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, indicating that the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) was not ready to leave the field open for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in the province by appointing a neutral person.
While Khosa's name had appeared in the media a couple of days ago, the president had held back the final decision for more consultations in view of the

LAHORE - The Punjab Police faces difficulties in investigation, screening equipments and locating suspects, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told the Punjab Assembly (PA) on Tuesday. Sanaullah admitted that police did not have facility of phone locator, as this equipment is only being used by intelligence agencies. The law minister said that the Punjab government had demanded the federal government to provide locators nothing has been done in this regard.
Question mover

ISLAMABAD - Perturbed by the consistent gas shortage in Punjab, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has convened a meeting of gas utility companies tomorrow (Wednesday) to ask them about their load management plans.
Sources at the Petroleum Ministry said the managing directors of Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) and Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) would brief the PM on the issue of gas shortage in Punjab and would give recommendations to counter them.
The sources

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party's Senior Minister Raja Riaz has said that PPP will not initiate any step that can destabilise the coalition government in the province. While talking to the journalists along with visiting ministers from Khyber Pakhtunkhwah here on Monday, at the slain governor's grave, Punjab Senior Minister said that his party would take every action in national interest and he added that PPP's leadership had ordered to stop any act that could destabilise the Punjab