Legal dispute over allotment of housing units to workers
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May 23, 2021
PESHAWAR: A legal dispute has arisen over the allotment of houses and flats of the Workers Welfare Fund on the basis of ownership.
The PTI government has initiated the allotment of housing units by formulating a policy without amending the 1971 Workers Welfare Fund Ordinance.
The Supreme Court had struck down the PPP government decision in 2006 and again issued a restraining order on an application against allotment of housing units on an ownership basis in 2017. Prime Minister Imran Khan has recently inaugurated two projects of the Fund in Islamabad and Peshawar.
Peshawar
January 28, 2021
BESHAM: The Shangla National Jirga on Wednesday threatened to launch a protest movement if the government did not provide electricity to the Shangla district from Karora Hydropower project forthwith.
Speaking at the jirga, Nawaz Mahmood Khan and Sadidur Rahman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Muhammad Rishad and Intikhab Alam Khan of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Azam Khan and Mutawakil Khan of the Awami National Party, Zaidullah Khan of the Pakistan People’s Party, Dr Sajjad Khan and Shah Saud advocate of Qaumi Watan Party, Immad Ahmad and Muhammad Tayyab Khan of Jamiat Ulma-e-Islam, Muhamamd Naeem Khan, Nisar Ahmad, Sarfaraz Khan and others said that Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organization (Pedo) was applying delaying tactics to provide electricity to Shangla from the Karora Hydropower project.