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LAHORE - The Punjab chief minister has accorded approval to the recommendations of the committee constituted for review and rationalization of various provincial departments.
The Public Policy and Change Management Wing, S & GAD, Tourism and Resort Development, Sports Department, IPC Wing and IT departments have been abolished. According to the details, the Public Policy and Change Management Wing, S & GAD has been entrusted to the Regulations Wing/O & M, S & GAD while Tourism

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

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday said his government had written a letter to the federal government seeking a judicial inquiry into the Governor Salmaan Taseer's assassination. He said he hoped that the federal government would approach Islamabad High Court for formation of a commission.
He was talking to reporters after visiting an under-construction forensic lab near Thokar Niaz Beg. He said the family of Salman Taseer would be provided complete security.

ISLAMABAD - Opting to adopt a wait-and-see policy, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has decided not to quit the Punjab government, leaving it to the PML-N to decide if it wants to keep the coalition going or not. The PML-N had said it would oust the PPP from the Punjab government if Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani did not respond positively to its interim reforms agenda.
The decision not to quit the Punjab government was taken after consultations with President Asif Zardari. A

ISLAMABAD - At least 2,690 incidents of violence against women were reported in 36 districts of Punjab from January to June 2010 and Lahore took the lead with 458 such cases, said data available with Pakistan Today.
The data added that other ten districts of the Punjab where intensity of violence remained high were Faisalabad with 393 cases, Sargodha with 161, Sheikhupura 157, Rawalpindi 139, Okara 134, Kasur 116, Sialkot 114, Sahiwal 88, Gujranwala 87, Jhang 76 and Multan 71

LAHORE - PPP's consultations for the appointment of the new governor for Punjab are underway and President Asif Ali Zardari has held meetings with prospective candidates, however, sources said the name would likely be finalised by January 10 (tomorrow).
After the assassination of Salman Taseer, the race is on fro the crucial slot and several PPP leaders are vying to be appointed, but party insiders said Zardari's Saturday's meetings at Bilawal House Karachi with party leaders and

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari is set to appoint close aide Latif Khosa to succeed slain Salmaan Taseer as the Punjab governor, officials said, another step in resolving a week-long political crisis. President Asif Ali Zardari is expected to name Khosa, a former attorney general, on Saturday from Karachi.
"Khosa is most likely to be appointed as the Punjab governor," a senior government official said. Other top officials confirmed the appointment was expected. Khosa told

LAHORE - A meeting of representatives of trade unions organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has deplored the lack of regard for labour rights and international conventions while adopting new labour laws, following the transfer of the subject to the provinces under the 18th Amendment.
The labour representatives took exception to the provision of the 18th Amendment that abolished the system of labour legislation at the national level, a provision they have

LAHORE - Cold and dry weather along with fog is expected to continue in most areas of Punjab, the Met Office said on Friday. Dense and moderate fog is expected to continue from early night to mid-day in most areas of Punjab. According to motorway and Allama Iqbal International Airport officials, air and road traffic was not disturbed due to the weather. Dense fog was witnessed in plains of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and upper areas of Sindh while lowest temperature in Lahore was

LAHORE - The cash-stripped Punjab government, already facing an overdraft of more than Rs 22 billion, is passing on its financial brunt to contractors, even the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), engaged in the Lahore Road Rehabilitation Programme (LRRP) Phase II since 2008, Pakistan Today has learnt. CM's Secretariat sources told Pakistan Today that with advent of 2011, the Punjab government assured all contractors including the FWO to improve their payments system for development

ISLAMABAD - As the government on Thursday accepted one of the 12 demands of Nawaz Sharif by reverting the petrol prices, the PML-N has forwarded another demand - the appointment of a non-controversial person as the Punjab governor - for the party's continued cooperation with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. A source in the PML-N told Pakistan Today that the demand regarding appointment of an 'impartial governor' had been conveyed to the prime minister.
"Gilani has also been

LAHORE - The trials to select the Punjab Ju-Jitsu team will be held at 3 pm at the Allama Iqbal Medical Complex on January 8.
The selected players will take part in the 8th National Ju-Jitsu Championship. Shamshad Ali Kham, President Punjab Ju-Jitsu Association will supervise the trials, which will feature players from all the affiliated units.

LAHORE - Leaders of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) foresaw a political controversy behind the assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer and called it a "political murder", as the deceased was laid to rest at the Cavalry Grounds graveyard on Wednesday.
Leading the enraged onslaught, PPP Punjab Senior Minister Raja Riaz said the Punjab governor was killed for political reasons and his murder highlighted the failure of the provincial government. He said it was surprising

KARACHI - Over 2,000 security personnel deployed with VVIPs of Sindh have been sent back to their head offices, while the personal details of more than 1,000 personnel of law enforcement agencies will be sent to intelligence agencies for vetting, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to the data of the Home Department, important personalities of Sindh enjoy the security of more than 8,000 police personnel and 4,000 personnel of other intelligence agencies. The assassination of

KARACHI - Condemning the brutal assassination of Governor Punjab Salmaan Taseer, the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) and the Pakistan Peace Coalition (PPC) on Wednesday termed the incident a wake-up call for the society to the alarming threat of religious fanaticism which is gnawing away at the roots of the country.
PILER and the PPC said that Taseer's murder by his own security guard to avenge his bold stand on blasphemy laws is not a single-day

ISLAMABAD - Interior Affairs Minister Rehman Malik has said that the Punjab Police was responsible to provide security to Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer and it (police) would be questioned about the security lapse.
Talking to reporters, Rehman said that Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, who joined the security squad (of the governor) from Rawalpindi, has been arrested on basis of his confession that he killed Salmaan Taseer because he had declared the blasphemy law a 'black law.'