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Arrests, tear gas as govt workers march in capital for pay raise
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ISLAMABAD: A cloud of mist blanketed Islamabad’s Constitution Avenue on Wednesday, but it was not the winter fog it was tear gas that police fired on protesting public sector employees, scores of whom were marching on Parliament demanding a pay raise.
The protest on Constitution Avenue, attended by lady health workers and other employees of the federal government, began a day after talks broke down between the government negotiators and the public sector ksemployees who, according to interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, were to blame for the failure of the negotiations.
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February 10, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party Tuesday announced challenging the presidential ordinance about open ballot for Senate elections in the high court and becoming party to the ongoing hearing in the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
The decision was taken in a telephonic conversation between PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and party’s Secretary General Nayyar Hussain Bukhari on Tuesday. Nayyar Bukhari said the presidential ordinance was based on mala fide intentions and the PPP would use all constitutional and legal options against it. Bilawal, while addressing a press conference in Karachi on Monday had said the PTI government was attempting to make the Senate election controversial like the 2018 general elections, adding that the Sindh government would challenge the presidential ordinance on the open ballot in the court. It was also decided that whenever the government would lay the presidential ordinance in either house of the Parliament, the opp
Govt recovered Rs 210 bln, illegal properties from 36 politicians: Shahzad Akbar
January 31, 2021
Prime Minister s Adviser on Accountability Shahzad Akbar says the government has recovered 210 billion rupees and retrieved 8,085 acres of illegally occupied state land from 36 politicians belonging to the opposition parties.
Talking to media in Islamabad on Sunday, he said these recoveries have been made in just two and half years in Punjab only and the retrieved land is now being utilized for public welfare.
Giving detail of the retrieved properties, Shahzad Akbar said 1,150 kanals of land worth over 4.57 million rupees was recovered from PML-N leader Muhammad Afzal Khokhar and brothers. He said millions of rupees in terms of penal rent have also been recovered from the land grabbers. He said PML-N leaders Mudasar Qayum Nahra, Khurram Dastgir Khan, Daniyal Aziz, Javed Latif, Mir Badshah Qaisrani, Abid Sher Ali and PPP leader Nayyar Bukhari are amongst those from whom illegally occu
Govt made recoveries worth Rs210bn from Punjab in 2.5 years: Shahzad Akbar
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Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Adviser to Prime Minister Imran Khan on Accountability and Interior Shahzad Akbar addressing a press conference, in Islamabad, on January 31, 2021. PID
Shahzad Akbar claims Rs210 billion recovered from Punjab in two-and-a-half years Rs24bn worth of recoveries were made from 36 PML-N members, from whom 8,085 acres of land was taken back, Akbar adds
Says former prime minister Nawaz Sharif promoted Changa Manga politics and politics of money during PML-N s tenure
Adviser to Prime Minister Imran Khan on Accountability Shahzad Akbar on Sunday claimed that the government has made recoveries worth Rs210 billion from Punjab over the course of the past two-and-a-half years.