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Minister announces health cards for lawyers, journalists; Rs6m loan facility on card to construct 10-marla houses
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Monday said that the introduction of electoral reforms were imperative to ensure free, fair, and transparent elections in the country.
“We want to hold elections on which no one could raise a finger and the electoral reforms will guarantee fair elections,” he expressed these views while talking to a delegation of District Bar Rawalpindi, Lahore High Court Bar Rawalpindi, Punjab Bar Council, and High Court Bar Multan.
The minister said that the government was well aware of the lawyers’ problems and it was the top priority of the government to solve the problems of the lawyer community. He said that his family was being known in the areas for doing politics or for adopting the lawyer profession.
DBA Jhelum s office bearers call on Information Minister
May 20, 2021
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has said Resolving the problems of the lawyer community is the top priority of the government.
Talking to the Office bearers of District Bar Jhelum, he said Lawyers are defenders of democracy, human rights and the constitution.
The matter to include lawyers in the Naya Pakistan Housing Scheme was also discussed in the meeting.
Earlier talking to a delegation of Film Producers Association in Islamabad Information Minister said development and revival of the film industry on modern lines is foremost priority of the government.
Urge government to waive duty on steel imports to stabilise prices
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KARACHI:
In the wake of increasing prices of steel bars, builders and developers have demanded a waiver from regulatory duty and additional regulatory duty on the import of steel to stabilise prices.
Prices of steel bars were around Rs117,000 per ton in November 2020, which have now surged to Rs142,000.
The price surge has put a massive burden on the construction sector, which started picking up pace following the government’s initiatives to offset the impact of Covid-19 on the economy and employment in the country.
Association of Builders and Developers of Pakistan (ABAD) Chairman Fayyaz Ilyas rejected the recent price hike for iron bars and lamented that the construction industry and the Naya Pakistan Housing Scheme would suffer due to the increasing prices.
KARACHI: The Association of Builders and Developers of Pakistan (ABAD) on Tuesday said that the Rs5,000 per tonne increase in steel bar prices will hit the construction industry and Naya Pakistan Housing Scheme (NPHS).
In a statement, ABAD chairman Fayyaz Ilyas urged the government to abolish regulatory duty (RD) and additional regulatory duty (ARD) on import of steel bars to curb prices.
He said the construction industry had been ignored for the last seven decades, but Prime Minister Imran Khan has, for the first time, announced a special package for this key industry crucial for reviving the national economy.
Some NGOs with dozens of individuals had moved the SHC stating that their houses near the Gujjar and Orangi nullahs were leased by the KMC and other departments and now they were being demolished in alleged pursuance of the Supreme Court’s orders. Fahim Siddiqi/White Star/File
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court extended on Tuesday its earlier restraining order against the demolition of leased properties around Gujjar and Orangi nullahs till June 1.
The two-judge SHC bench headed by Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi ruled that the authorities concerned be allowed to obtain appropriate orders from the Supreme Court, after a provincial law officer and counsel for the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) said that they were not aware of any order of the SC regarding cancellation of leases of the properties in question.