Islamabad: According to the details, while patrolling near Swabi, the Motorway Police saw a vehicle parked on the side of the road. So on searching the vehicle, 35 packets of opium and 7 packets of hashish were recovered from the vehicle. The drugs and the vehicle were handed over to Anti-Narcotics Force Peshawar for further legal action.
Daily Archives: July 31, 2022
CM KP announces relief package for flood affected people
Peshawar:Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has announced relief package for the flood affected people of Balochistan province and directed the relevant authorities to ensure provision of announced package to flood hit people within the next 24 hours. As per special directives of the chief minister, 32 trucks of relief package from the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will be dispatched to flood hit people of Balochistan. The relief package includes, 1000 number of tents,1000 mattresses, 1000 hygiene kits, 1000 blankets, 1000 quilts, 1000 tarpaulin sheets, 1000 mosquito nets and 20 number of dewatering pumps. Similarly, essential medicines and one thousand food packages are also part of the relief package.
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan expressing his sympathy with the people of Balochistan said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and its people stood by the flood hit people in this testing time and would extend all possible support to them. He further said that, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government shared the grief of affected people and purpose of relief package was to provide them immediate relief in this difficult situation. “Serving vulnerable humanity without discrimination is our manifesto and vision of Chairman PTI Imran khan”, he remarked.
Authorites visit Mardan during heavy rainfall
Peshawar:Member of Provincial Assembly Zahir Shah Toru and Chief Executive Officer WSSCM Engineer Amir Khan Mohmand visited different areas of Mardan city during heavy rainfall. They also reviewed the ongoing sanitation activities there.
MPA Zahir Shah Toru said PTI Provincial government is providing all possible facilities to the citizens in the available resources. He also directed the concerned authorities to remove the obstruction from drains.
All Government Departments have been put on high alert in different areas and relief operations are continued in full swing. Toru added,
Rescue, PDMA, WSSCs and other departments are on high alert and ready to deal with any emergency.
Toru Said under Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cities Improvement Project, the sanitation problem of Mardan city will be completely resolved.
WSSCM Chief Executive Officer Engineer Ameer Khan Mohmand said that they are trying to provide all possible facilities to the citizens of Mardan.
On a daily basis, 180 tons of waste is collected from the city and disposed off safely.
He said that during heavy rainfall our workers worked day and night to provide clean environment to the citizens of Mardan.
Roof collapse, 1 women, 2 children died
MARDAN: A woman and two children died while three others got injured.
A buffalo died in a roof collapse incident while two houses were fully damaged while 13 houses partially damaged due to heavy rain continued on the second day in Mardan district, a senior female officer said.
Aasma Arif, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Relief and Human rights said that the roof of the room of the house of Mohammad Arif collapsed at Chakaro Pul Muslimabad.
As a result Wife of Mohammad Asif, Arif six years old and Ans 2 years old died while Haris 10 years old, Mohammad Zahir 60 years old and Waris 10 years old got injured.
Rescue 1122 shifted the injured to Mardan Medical Complex (MMC).
Function of the wedding ceremony continued when the roof collapsed.
She added that the heavy rain which continued on the second day badly damaged different parts of the district.
She added that according to the initial reports, the boundary walls of 9 houses were partially damaged while 8 rooms of 7 separate houses collapsed. She added that buffalo of Umar Rahman also died in room collapse incidents. She added that the roof of a house collapsed at Chandar Par Gujjar Garhi however no casualty occurred in the incident. She added that crops on more than 24 kanal lands were damaged at tehsil Takhatbhai. She added that the district administration, WSSCM, TMA, rescue 1122 continued rescue efforts in the district. She added that the heavy rain water entered the houses and shops in different parts of the district. She added that the water was released from the different affected areas through water pumps.
Mayor Mardan Himayatullah Mayar also visited the affected areas and examined the rescue efforts. It may be noted that the heavy rain after interval started in the night of Friday and continued till 2 pm Saturday. The heavy rain water inundated houses and shops and fields in Mardan, Takhatbhai, Rustam, Katlang and Garhi Kapura tehsil. The heavy rain water flooded the roads and streets. Due to the heavy and long duration rain all small and large water channels were flooded in the district. The heavy rain also damaged crops in different parts of the district. District administration officials, rescue 1122, TMA took part in the rescue efforts in the district.
PML-N moves LHC against ‘unconstitutional’ election of PA Speaker
LAHORE: Malik Saiful Malook Khokhar, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate for Friday’s Punjab Assembly speaker election, approached the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday claiming that the election was held in an ‘illegal and unconstitutional manner’.
In his petition, filed alongside PML-N MPA Mian Abdul Rauf, Khokhar contended that the contest on the speaker’s slot was a ‘sheer violation’ of Article 226 which said that: “all elections under the Constitution, other than those of the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister, shall be by secret ballot”.
The petitioners maintained that the balloting had not been secret and that “the ballot papers and counterfoils were serial numbered in such a manner that the choice exercised by each MPA could be identified by comparing the serial number on the ballot paper and the serial number and signatures of MPAs on the counterfoils of the ballot papers. As a result, the secrecy of the ballot could easily be breached”.
The PML-N members indicated the matter verbally and through a written application to the respondent panel of chairmen Waseem Khan Badozai and the assembly secretary, both of whom refused to take any action.
According to the petition, rather than addressing their grievances, security was called in ‘to brutalize the petitioners and their supporters’.
The PML-N implored that facts and circumstances led to a “blatant unconstitutional subversion of the election process” for the speaker of the provincial assembly.
“Against the aforementioned arbitrary, unreasonable, unconstitutional, without jurisdiction, Impugned order/inaction of the respondents, the petitioners have no alternate or efficacious remedy except to invoke the constitutional jurisdiction of this court,” the petition stated.
They further requested that the court declare the “impugned” election illegal and proclaim the contest to be void.
The PML-N, in its petition, further prayed that the respondent and newly elected Speaker of the Punjab Assembly Sibtain Khan be restrained from exercising powers and performing functions of the speaker till the final decision of the petition.
Earlier on Friday, Sibtain Khan won 185 votes from the lawmakers from the PTI, the PML-Q and other allies. His rival PML-N’s Saiful Malook Khokhar obtained 175 votes – three short of the opposition’s total strength of 178 in the provincial legislature. He undertook the oath on Saturday in the provincial capital.
Imran Khan, his foreign funding ‘biggest threat’ to country: Marriyum
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb says the PTI Cheif Imran Khan and the foreign funding received by his party are the biggest threat to Pakistan.
In a press release, she said Imran Khan has received funding from the United States, and he has no right to talk on the national security.
The Information Minister said instead of discussing the economy, Imran Khan should answer as to why he used the donations for running his party affairs.
She said while being in power, Imran Khan appeased his foreign funders by destabilising the country and selling the Kashmir cause.
Political rivalry pushing country into the Stone Age
ISLAMABAD: Former President of Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) Dr. Shahid Rasheed Butt on Saturday said the statements of economic managers are not having a positive impact on the jittery market otherwise the value of the rupee would not have continued to decline.
IMF has no intention to release the tranche for the next twenty-five days, which will increase uncertainty while further affecting the economy, he said.
Shahid Rasheed Butt said that General Bajwa’s efforts to get an IMF loan without further delay to save the country are laudable.
He said that the country is going bankrupt but taxes are not being collected as per the potential and there is no initiative to impose a tax on agricultural income.
Non-developmental expenditure is being increased rather than reduced and there is zero progress towards putting the economy back on track.
He said that the finance minister repeatedly claimed that the value of the rupee will improve soon, which the market is ignoring.
Likewise, the public and the business community are not ready to trust the flowery statements of other economic managers and the acting governor of the State Bank.
Govt deliberates over replacing Ashtar Ausaf AG with Irfan Qadir
ISLAMABAD: Government has started consultations to change Ashtar Ausaf Attorney General (AG) of Pakistan and on the other hand offer for the post of AG has been extended to Irfan Qadir.
Sources have told Online government has started deliberating over changing Ashtar Ausaf AG and resignation will be obtained from him on the pretext of illness.
On the other side government has contacted aggression prone Irfan Qadir and extended him offer to become AG. However Irfan Qadir has agreed on accepting this offer conditionally. He said he has to deal with certain important works and later he will be ready to discharge this obligation.
Sources revealed federal government wants to appoint Irfan Qadir to take up certain matters with superior judiciary in aggressive manner.
It may be mentioned that Irfan Qadir had contested Punjab assembly deputy speaker case in connection with election of chief minister Punjab and he had taken tough stance before the court bench. He had declared court’s decision one sided and against the law and constitution.
Govt breaks all inflation records: Asad Umer
ISLAMABAD: Asad Umer, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf leader, wrote on twitter that incumbent government has broken all the inflation records.
On Saturday, he criticized the government and said that incompetence and disinterest of the current government is main cause of economy downfall.
Inflation reached all time high level in one week, he wrote, inflation shot up 37 percent on items of basic needs.
He said inflation reached highest level but incompetent ruler remained heedless.
Aftab Sherpao QWP chief calls on PM
ISLAMABAD: Qaumi Watan Party head (senior deputy president of PDM) Aftab Sherpao on Saturday called on Prime Minister Shahbaz Shareef to discuss country’s political and economic situation.
Both leaders considered strategy to control inflation in Khyber PK.
Aftab Sherpao demanded of PM to declare flood affected areas calamity stricken.
PM and Ally leader agreed to strategize control on inflation and electricity load shedding.