Senate panel seeks details of Balochistan package
Move comes after planning ministry officials fail to deliver a briefing on Rs600b package
ISLAMABAD:
The Senate Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Reforms on Monday sought full details of the Rs600 billion development package for Southern Balochistan in its next meeting after the planning ministry officials failed to deliver a detailed briefing.
A meeting of the Senate standing committee was held under the chairmanship of Senator Agha Shahzeb Durrani. The meeting was attended by senior officials of the Ministry of Planning, Water Resources and others.
During the meeting, the planning ministry officials said that there are development projects worth Rs601 billion under the Southern Balochistan Development Package.
Delays in restoring train services irk Senate panel
Directs completion of Harnai-Sibi route in four months, restoration of Quetta-Karachi line as soon as possible
ISLAMABAD:
The Senate Functional Committee on Problems of Less Developed Areas has directed the Ministry of Railways to restore the Sibi-Harnai route in Balochistan in four months and submit a report.
Chairman Senator Usman Khan Kakar recalled that former railways minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed had pledged on this very floor of the house in January 2019 that the services would be restored within three months.
“We will move a privilege motion against the former minister on behalf of the committee for not fulfilling his promise,” Senator Kakar said while presiding over the committee’s session at the Parliament Lodges on Friday.
PML-N will contest Senate elections and stop PTI from obtaining two-thirds majority: Ahsan Iqbal
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Says PTI can do away with 18th Amendment if it obtains two-third majority
Cannot leave the field open for the PTI, says Ahsan Iqbal
ISLAMABAD: PML-N leader and former interior minister Ahsan Iqbal said Wednesday that the party will contest the upcoming Senate elections to deter the PTI from obtaining a two-thirds majority in the parliament.
Speaking to media outside an accountability court, the PML-N stalwart said that his party did not believe in leaving the field open for the PTI . Iqbal said that if the PML-N did not contest elections, then the ruling party will obtain a two-thirds majority and change the face of the Constitution.
Nationalists vow to follow GM Syed’s politics
Several factions of JST honour late visionary on his 117th birthday
Sindhi nationalist leader GM Syed. PHOTO: FILE
HYDERABAD:
Sindhi nationalist leaders have reiterated their vow to continue treading on the path of non-violence as taught by their late iconic nationalist leader GM Syed. The nationalist leaders were speaking at separate public meetings organised on Sunday by several factions of the Jeay Sindh Tehreek, a party founded by Syed, in Sann, a rural town along the Indus Highway in Jamshoro district. The public meetings were held to commemorate the 117th birthday of the late nationalist leader.
Government has no intention to bring any ordinance that hurts feelings of people; Senate told
Islamabad, January 11, 2021 (PPI-OT):The House has started discussion on a motion moved by Opposition Members regarding alarming propensity of the Federal government to usurp and subvert Parliamentary and Provincial rights guaranteed in the constitution by attempting to rule the country by ordinances, especially the current case of attempted illegal land grab of Sindh and Baluchistan’s island resources.
Initiating the debate on the motion, Senator Mir Kabir Muhammad Shahi of National Party said federal government would not be allowed to take over the islands of the two provinces at any cost through a presidential ordinance.