SIALKOT/LAHORE: Chief Secretary Jawwad Rafique Malik stood up to the `uncivilised’ behaviour of Special Assistant to Chief Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan when she humiliated a woman assistant commissioner in public during her visit to a Ramazan Bazaar in Sialkot on Sunday.
As Dr Awan’s video clip went viral on the social and electronic media, the chief secretary issued a statement and said that he had conveyed his reservations about the Sialkot incident to Chief Minister Usman Buzdar.
The clip shows the special assistant scolding AC Sonia Sadaf at a stall for ‘poor quality of fruit’.
“It is your duty to check every commodity in the bazaar since you are paid for that.”
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Special Assistant to Chief Minister Punjab Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Sunday reprimanded Assistant Commissioner Sialkot Sonia Sadaf for failing to control the sale of substandard items in Ramadan bazaars.
During her visit to the Ramdan bazaars, Dr Awan scolded and shouted at the Assistant Commissioner Sonia Sadaf in presence of the public and other officials. Firdous Ashiq Awan took stern notice of the sale of substandard goods and told AC Sialkot that it was her duty to check the quality of the goods.
During her visit, she said that Ramadan bazaars have been set up by the government, it cannot be given in the hands of such thugs adding that the government is responsible here.
SIALKOT: Special Assistant to Chief Minister Punjab for Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan admonished Assistant Commissioner Sialkot Sonia Sadaf after seeing rotten fruit at a Ramazan bazaar on.
Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan defends tirade against AC Sialkot Sonia Sadaf
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Monday May 03, 2021
Special Assistant to the Punjab Chief Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan holds a press conference on Monday. Photo: Geo News screengrab
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LAHORE: Special Assistant to the Chief Minister Punjab Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan is holding a press conference, and offering her clarification on the controversy involving Assistant Commissioner Sialkot Sonia Sadaf.
Firdous apology for Sonia Sadaf: I didn’t use right words
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Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan has admitted that the words she used to tell off Assistant Commissioner Sonia Sadaf in Sialkot over price gouging in a Ramazan subsidy bazaar were not right. If the spirit of the holy month is of self-reflection and forgiveness, then nothing exemplified it more perhaps than Firdous Apa s live apology on national television Monday afternoon.