In March, the House passed private members bills and made them law for establishing three private universities and in June presented similar bills for establishing two more. APP/File
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly seems to have made it a regular practice of introducing private member bills for establishing private universities, bypassing the rules and regulations and the Higher Education Department procedure.
In March, the House passed private members bills and made them law for establishing three private universities and in June presented similar bills for establishing two more. However, the latter were put on hold on the intervention of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
In March, the House passed private members bills and made them law for establishing three private universities and in June presented similar bills for establishing two more. APP/File
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly seems to have made it a regular practice of introducing private member bills for establishing private universities, bypassing the rules and regulations and the Higher Education Department procedure.
In March, the House passed private members bills and made them law for establishing three private universities and in June presented similar bills for establishing two more. However, the latter were put on hold on the intervention of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
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Parvez Elahi directs all assembly members, staff to wear masks, use hand sanitizers during budget session
June 9, 2021
LAHORE: A meeting chaired by Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Parvez Elahi took important decisions regarding the budget session starting from June 14, soon after Secretary Muhammad Khan Bhatti briefed about all arrangements during the budget session.
Addressing the meeting, Speaker Parvez Elahi said that the minister himself would give the answer to any minister’s departmental cut motion; full implementation of Corona SOPs should be ensured during the budget session.
He directed all members of the assembly and staff to wear masks and use hand sanitizers. He said that the vaccination for assembly members and staff would continue in the old building. He also said that foolproof security arrangements should be ensured during the budget session.
In this file photo, Jahangir Tareen speaks to the media in Lahore alongside Punjab lawmakers. DawnNewsTV/File
LAHORE: The Jahangir Khan Tareen group has gained strength and its aggressive narrative to seek ‘justice’ for the estranged Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader has brought the party’s federal as well as Punjab governments to their knees as both have invited the group for negotiations.
The Tareen group, which has swelled to over three dozen members from both the National and Punjab assemblies, posed a clear threat to the PTI governments in the province as well as at the Centre after it announced parliamentary leaders for both houses. The group had also threatened to boycott the budget sessions jeopardising the overall legitimacy of both the PTI governments.
LAHORE: An accountability court on Thursday adjourned for further arguments a reference of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for the closure of the last inquiry into a case of “illegal” appointments against the Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Parvez Elahi.
Earlier, a NAB prosecutor told the court that many of the nominated suspects in the reference, including the beneficiaries of the illegal appointments, either died or retired from service. He said the available evidence was not enough to establish the charge of misuse of authority to make the appointments against Mr Elahi.
Duty Judge Sajjad Ahmad Sheikh adjourned the hearing till May 18 and directed the prosecutor to come up with more arguments.