Wednesday, 14th April, 2021
Islamabad: 14th April 2021 while chairing the review meeting on the progress of Alamabad welfare project Swabi, Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser appreciated the coordination among all concerned departments especially he appreciated the achievement of Deputy commissioner Swabi for transferring the Land to Alamabad project. He also remarked that this state of the art project would bring positive changes in the life of needy and destitute. He also informed the stakeholders of the project to expedite the progress as he intended to invite Imran Khan Prime Minister of Pakistan on this project after Eid if Corono situation got relaxed.
Daily Times
April 11, 2021
We live in an unfair world. Nothing seems fair or equitable right from the time we are born. The great English writer Charles Dickens summed up this sentiment well in one of his novels. “In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small .” Dickens would also say: “The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.” In saying so, he was telescoping what physicians and public health practitioners would be saying a century and a half after his death. In one of his most famous speeches the legendary human rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. remarked, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” A couple of years before his
In this file photo, Prime Minister Imran Khan distributes food packets at the launch of ‘Koi Bhuka Na Soye’ initiative in Islamabad. White Star/File
ISLAMABAD: On the instructions of Prime Minister Imran Khan, the government has expanded its mobile free-food programme and launched it in three more cities to help the poor, especially the labour class, get two square meals and ensure nobody goes to sleep hungry.
According to the plan, the concept of truck kitchens ‘Ehsaas Koi Bhooka Na Soye’ (EKBNS) will start operations in Lahore, Faisalabad and Peshawar before the advent of Ramazan. EKBNS mobile trucks carrying cooked food will visit localities of labourers and hospitals to distribute free meals.
Chief Minister Mahmood Khan chaired the meeting of the provincial cabinet. DawnNewsTV/File
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet has decided to provide a subsidy of Rs20.8 billion on wheat to ensure the supply of flour to the people at rates lower than the market’s during the holy month of Ramazan.
The cabinet, which met here on Monday with Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in the chair, also approved the outsourcing of the regional blood transfusion centres to ensure safe transfusion, said an official statement.
The outsourcing of centres will be implemented by the Healthcare Foundation and the banks will be run under the public private partnership law to improve its operations and resolve the problems of blood required by the patients.
Minister occupies PAC slot against parliamentary norm - Newspaper dawn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dawn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.