Rifts mar PTI’s allotment of Senate tickets
PM takes notice, says candidates will be selected on merit
Prime Minister Imran Khan addresses a ceremony in Islamabad. PHOTO: SCREENGRAB
ISLAMABAD:
The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf faced criticism from party cadres over awarding of Senate tickets due to which it failed to finalise the list of candidates despite Monday being the last day for the submission of nomination papers with the ECP.
Taking notice of the matter, Prime Minister Imran Khan convened an emergency meeting of the parliamentary committee on Monday.
During the meeting, Premier Imran hinted at a change in tickets and said they “will be given on merit”.
KARACHI: In a thinly veiled criticism directed at the Pakistan Peoples Party government in Sindh for ‘intentionally neglecting’ municipal bodies in the country’s commercial capital, senior figures of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf said on Sunday that the federal government was working beyond its constitutional responsibility since it understood the importance of Karachi in national development.
The criticism came from federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar, Sindh Governor Imran Ismail and Maritime Affairs Minister Ali Zaidi at a programme held to hand over recently imported fire tenders to the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and other organisations.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr Umar said it was highly regrettable that the municipal corporation of a city like Karachi, which contributed more than 40 per cent taxes to the exchequer and over 90pc taxes to Sindh, did not have fire tenders and not even money to arrange diesel to run the fire tenders.
The PTI has already announced the list of its 20 candidates from the four provinces and Islamabad. INP/File
ISLAMABAD: Despite an extension in the period for submission of nomination papers for coming Senate polls by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and official announcement of the names of all its candidates by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), no one from the party had filed papers from Sindh by Sunday, revealed ECP data.
With the filing of nomination papers by 22 more candidates on Sunday, the total number of candidates filing the papers reached 100. Monday (today) is the last day for the filing of nomination papers.
KMC receives 24 fire tenders
Former mayor lauds Centre’s move, but rues lack of drivers, funds to operate new fire trucks
KARACHI:
The much touted about fire equipment procured by the federal government was handed over to the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation and other bodies at a ceremony held at the Sindh Governor House on Sunday.
Addressing the event, former Karachi mayor Wasim Akhtar lauded the Centre s move and chided the Pakistan Peoples Party-led provincial government.
It is good news for Karachi that an effort has been made to improve the service of KMC s fire department, said Akhtar. It was the responsibility of the Sindh government but it did not pay attention to his request in this regard, added the former mayor, while thanking the federal government for taking the initiative.