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Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has directed relevant authorities to establish a regular department for price control within five days.
She said this while chairing a meeting in Lahore.
The Chief Minister emphasized the need for an immediate plan to implement sustainable measures for price control.
She also stressed the importance of monitoring the demand and supply system and said that controlling inflation is her government’s top priority.
Source: Radio Pakistan
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has emphasized the importance of reconciliation among politicians to ensure political stability and strengthen democracy in the country.
Talking to the media in Islamabad today, he said a number of problems being faced by the country would automatically be resolved, once political leaders start respecting one another. He said no institution will respect politicians if they do not respect their fellow peers.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said politics should be done within its constitutional limits and refrain from violent activities like the incidents happened on 9th May last year.
Replying to a question, he said the process of short listing potential names for provincial governors has not yet started.
Source: Radio Pakistan
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has said that public service is our mission.
Addressing a special meeting in Lahore today, she said the government will make all out efforts to provide services and rights to the people at their doorstep.
During the meeting, suggestions and recommendations were reviewed for the preparation of a data bank to provide relief to deserving people in the province.
Source: Radio Pakistan
Senator Ishaq Dar says Chief Minister, Speaker and Deputy Speaker Balochistan Assembly will be elected with the coalition parties’ support on the pattern of the National Assembly.
Talking to media in Islamabad today, he said consultations among all stakeholders have entered in final stage in this connection.
Ishaq Dar also urged the Law Ministry, National Assembly Secretariat and other relevant departments to summon the session of National Assembly till Thursday as per the Constitution.
Source: Radio Pakistan
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has constructed thirty-seven small and medium dams while twenty-four are being built in different rivers and water channels and designs of seven dams completed in the province.
The Directorate of Small Dams of the Irrigation Department’s spokesman told today nineteen dams were constructed in merged districts. He said twenty-four small dams with accumulative water storage capacity of seventy-thousand acre feet were being built in different districts of KP under the Federal government’s PSDP program.
Source: Radio Pakistan
Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan Haji Gulbar Khan called on Governor Gilgit-Baltistan Syed Mehdi Shah today in Islamabad.
They discussed the public issues and developmental activities of the Gilgit Baltistan.
Provincial Finance Minister Engineer Muhammad Ismail and Special Assistant to Chief Minister Youth Affairs and Commerce Zabihullah were also present.
Source: Radio Pakistan
Foreign Secretary Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi has said India’s colonial project continues in full swing in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir in breach of the UN Charter, Security Council resolutions and international law.
Addressing the High-Level Segment of the 55th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, he said political and demographic engineering of the occupied territory is being carried out by the world’s self-professed largest democracy through an outsized military presence and draconian laws.
He said Kashmiri women and children suffer several layers of institutionalized discrimination, abuse and violence.
The Ambassador demanded the High Commissioner’s Office to continue monitoring the situation in IIOJK and produce a third Kashmir report in exercise of its prevention mandate.
Source: Radio Pakistan