Here is what you need to know to start your day today, Wednesday, September 15, 2021: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will embark on a two-day official visit to Tajikistan today. The petrol price hit a record high on September 14 when the federal government increased the prices of petroleum products by up to Rs5.92. In a rare move, the government has hiked the price of petrol beyond what was recommended by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority. The temperature in Karachi is expected to hit 40 degrees Celsius today. According to the Met Office, a new monsoon system will enter Sindh on September 17. NAB Lahore to hear references today against Shehbaz Sharif family and .
ISLAMABAD: Unelected members of Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar’s team are wrong to underestimate him and take him too lightly as he has proven that he is armed with the requisite authority.
July 28, 2021
LAHORE:Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has said that the PTI’s victory in AJK elections was a message for the opponents as the outcome had shown that the PTI was the most popular party in the country. The hollow slogans of giving respect to vote had met a natural death, he added.
These views were expressed by him during a meeting with Provincial Minister for Forest Muhammad Sibtain Khan at CM office on Tuesday. The CM and the minister extended felicitations to PM Imran Khan over PTI’s success in AJK elections. Sibtain Khan said the PTI’s success was the victory of norms of transparency and honesty. The people preferred trustworthy leadership while the past rulers had become a symbol of disgrace, he added.
July 26, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The climate change ministry would help the Punjab government to establish a wide-spread, new, man-made big forest in line with the directions of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
An official of the ministry informed this correspondent that Prime Minister Imran Khan chaired an online meeting on July 12 in which he directed Punjab Minister for Forests and Wildlife Sibtain Khan to make preparations to establish a new artificial forest on the pattern of Changa Manga, planted by the British foresters in 1866.
The meeting was also attended by Punjab chief minister Usman Buzdar and other senior officials. He said the prime minister wanted the provincial government to establish new forest as part of the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami project aimed at increasing forest cover in the country.
July 25, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The climate change ministry would help the Punjab government to establish a wide-spread, new, man-made big forest in line with the directions of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
An official of the ministry informed this correspondent that Prime Minister Imran Khan chaired an online meeting on July 12 in which he directed Punjab Minister for Forests and Wildlife Sibtain Khan to make preparations to establish a new artificial forest on the pattern of Changa Manga, planted by the British foresters in 1866. The meeting was also attended by Punjab chief minister Usman Buzdar and other senior officials.
He said the prime minister wanted the provincial government to establish new forest as part of the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami project aimed at increasing forest cover in the country. The new forest would be first of its kind after independence but it will also need lots of resources, commitment and concerted efforts to translate the idea into reality. This project is li