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PA brings electric buses under tax ambit
CM passes the buck for slow development pace to Centre
Sindh Assembly Session. PHOTO: NNI
KARACHI:
The Sindh Assembly passed a law on Friday legalising the use of electric buses in the province.
One such bus has already been operational on Karachi’s roads.
Moving the motor vehicle taxation amendment bill, Sindh Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla, who also happens to be the excise and taxation minister, said that after the passage of the law, electric buses could be registered for taxation in the province.
“Sindh is the first province which has launched this [electric buses] project and is going to register the buses,” said Chawla. The provincial transport department had earlier, on March 30, 2020, inaugurated a project for electric buses under the public-private partnership model.
Contentions over budget persist in PA
Opposition questions irrigation, education and Covid expenditures in current fiscal year
Sindh Assembly Session. PHOTO: NNI
KARACHI:
Contentions between the opposition and treasury benches on budget expenditures for the current fiscal year continued on Thursday as the Sindh Assembly prepared to wind up debate on the issue today (Friday).
For the opposition lawmakers, the budget has been merely a jugglery of figures. But the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party lawmakers insist that it was an exemplary budget under which record development took place in almost all sectors of government.
The former continued to grill provincial ministers on the performance of their respective departments. The education and irrigation departments and the Covid-19 expenditures came under scrutiny in the house.
All eyes on NA-249 as recount begins
Neither PPP nor PML-N willing to accept other’s victory
Sindh Assembly Session. PHOTO: NNI
KARACHI:
The Election Commission of Pakistan is to begin recounting the votes for the hotly contested seat of the National Assembly seat from Karachi’s NA-249 constituency seat today (Thursday) but no matter which way the decision swings, the recently held by-poll is likely to remain controversial. Neither the Pakistan Peoples Party nor the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, which ostensibly bagged the highest and second highest number of votes, respectively, are willing to accept the other’s mandate on the seat.