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This photo shows PTI candidate Chaudhry Ahsan Saleem Baryar. Screenshot courtesy: PTI Twitter
SIALKOT: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) clinched the PP-38, Sialkot IV, seat by defeating the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in what turned out to be a major upset here on Wednesday.
PTI candidate Chaudhry Ahsan Saleem Baryar got 60,588 votes whereas PML-N ‘s Chaudhry Tariq Akhtar was polled 53,571 votes, according to unofficial results announced on Wednesday night. With the latest victory, the PTI has now two provincial assembly seats in Sialkot district out of the 11 Punjab Assembly seats.
There was a palpable sense of jubilation in the PTI and Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Information Firdous Ashiq Awan, while speaking at the outhouse of the winning candidate, said a new face in politics had defeated the experienced politician in the bypoll.
KASUR: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday registered two first information reports (FIRs) against as many suspects, including a son of PTI MNA, for allegedly stealing gas and electricity to the tone of millions of rupees at their industrial unit in Pattoki.
According to an FIR registered under section 462 C of PPC read with section 5(2)47 PCA, a team raided a lime and plaster of paris manufacturing unit at Kot Sardar Kahn Singh on Sara-i-Mughal Road in Pattoki tehsil of Kasur. The team found the industrial unit was using gas through direct supply.
The unit, according to FIR, was run by Sardar Ayaz Ahmed Khan, son of PTI MNA Sardar Talib Nakai and nephew of provincial minister Sardar Asif Nakai, and a local Nasir Mahmood.
No new tax imposed as KMC approves budget of Rs26 billion
June 30, 2021
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has approved a budget of Rs25,982.414 million for the next financial year with a surplus of Rs11.947 million, as the expenditures are
estimated at Rs25,970.467 million.
Karachi Administrator Laeeq Ahmed on Tuesday approved the budget using the powers of the city council under the notification of the Sindh government. No new tax has been imposed. The administrator said that for the next financial year, priority was given to those development schemes which were in the interest of the public. “Non-development schemes are kept to a minimum; new and ongoing projects of roads, gardens, playgrounds and sports complexes have been added to improve the infrastructure of Karachi.”