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LAHORE - Punjab Assembly (PA) Speaker Rana Iqbal, taking notice of non-completion of the water filtration plants scheme, announced on Friday that a committee will be formed to probe into the matter.
He said that members of provincial assembly (MPA) should know about the details related to the scheme and fixed Wednesday, March 30, as the date for holding an open debate on the issue. Pakistan People's Party (PPP) MPA Ashraf Sohna challenged the Punjab law minister for declaring the

ALAHORE - The Aashiyana Housing Scheme is a revolutionary project of the Punjab government for the low-income segments of the province, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Saturday. He was addressing the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Aashiyana Housing Scheme at Atari Saroba, Ferozepur Road. Shahbaz said that the project was an important step towards transforming the country in accordance with the vision of the Quaid-e-Azam and Allama Iqbal.
The CM said that

KARACHI - Al Meezan Mutual Fund Limited (AMMF), one of the country's leading Islamic investment companies, is going to convert into an open ended scheme, it has been learnt. Furthermore, after conversion, the Islamic investment company has also decided to charge the unit holders with a 'back end load' ranging from five to 10 percent depending on the period of redemption.
The decision was taken by the board of directors of AMMF, a public limited company carrying on the business of

PESHAWAR - Reaffirming his government's resolve to ensure the return of peace and an end to militancy and extremism, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti Wednesday said such objectives could be achieved by addressing the economic needs and hardships of the people.
"Amidst threats of terrorism and a plethora of other challenges, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has initiated steps for stimulating economic and development activities," the chief minister remarked

LAHORE - The Lahore Transport Company (LTC) has taken steps to regulate and organize a taxi system in the city, which LTC says will make for a safer, affordable, efficient and environment friendly mode of transport, Pakistan Today learnt on Tuesday.
The plan has only been approved by the LTC's GM Operations and GM Enforcement, so it still has to be approved by the board of directors. The scheme will be open to people interested in investing as Taxi Operators.
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LAHORE - Management of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI), on Friday, announced Amnesty Scheme 2011 for its corporate and associate class, who has discontinued membership after 2005.
According to the LCCI spokesman, all business houses, which were members of LCCI in 2004-05 and could not get their membership renewed, can now get membership renewal up to December 31, 2011. This would require deposit of a single fee i.e. Rs 4,100 for corporate class and Rs 1,600 for

LAHORE - The Aashiyana Housing Scheme will have a special quota for orphans, widows, disabled and families of martyrs, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Monday. He was chairing a meeting of Punjab Land Development Company (PLDC) Board of Directors (BoD) at the CM's Secretariat.
The meeting reviewed in detail pace of progress of the Aashiyana Housing Scheme for low-income people. Shahbaz said that the Punjab government has launched the Aashiyana Housing Scheme for

WAZIRABAD - The construction work on the sewage scheme of Wazirabad city, to be completed with the special grant of the Punjab chief minister, has not so far been started and an inordinate delay has irked the people of the area.
The Public Health and Engineering Department was required to get the project from Nullah Palkhu to Ahmadnagar Road completed in 2009 and the job was assigned to Asad and Company. The sewage pipes of the Public Health Department are still lying in the

ISLAMABABAD - The amnesty schemes launched by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), i.e., the Companies Regularisation Scheme (CRS) and Companies Easy Exit Scheme (CEES) shall close on Friday.
The SECP's Company Registration Offices will remain open till 7 pm, on Friday, December 31, in order to receive the applications and overdue returns under the said schemes.
The companies are earnestly advised to benefit from the schemes within the stipulated

LAHORE - Rejecting media reports on audit observation and irregularities in the Green Tractor Scheme 2008-09, the Punjab Agriculture Department spokesman clarified on Thursday that utmost care was exercised by the department to obviate any chance of omission and negligence in implementation of the Green Tractor Scheme.
The spokesman said that alleged irregularities regarding implementation of the scheme were primarily based on audit commissioned by the auditor general and the

KARACHI: Although unprecedented floods have played havoc with the country's agriculture sector, the federal government is proceeding at a snail's pace with the farmer-friendly measures such as the National Agriculture Insurance Scheme (NAIS).
NAIS, an upgraded version of the now-mandatory Crop Loan Insurance Scheme (CLIS), is meant to devise a risk management mechanism for the farmers to even out agricultural risks and blunt the consequences of natural disasters to make losses,

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif gave a briefing to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif about the low-cost Ashiyana Housing Scheme on Friday. The CM said that the project for providing houses to low-income people had started in Lahore and would be extended throughout Punjab.
He said that 26 sites have been identified for the scheme in various districts of the province. Shahbaz informed Nawaz that the housing project was a welfare scheme of the

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting members criticised the Wikileaks website saying its reports about Muslim countries was a part of a conspiracy to create rifts among Muslim states.
"The leaders of Pakistan are being ridiculed and the people behind WikiLeaks are creating misunderstandings among Muslim states", Pakistan People's Party member National Assembly Mir Amer Ali Khan Magsi said at the meeting of the NA body held on Tuesday.