Pakistan Post likely to get contract for delivery of smart cards
Private courier company to be given one last chance to improve before facing the axe
Nisar gives foreigners two months to surrender forged documents. PHOTO: EXPRESS
LAHORE:
The Excise and Taxation Department Punjab is mulling over an agreement with Pakistan Post for the swift delivery of documents and CNICs to the residences and offices of around four million people annually.
Currently, the department has an agreement in place with a private courier company for the delivery of smart cards and registration documents, informed sources.
The excise department hands out more than four million consignments to the company annually, however, the courier service’s delivery rate is not up to scratch. The underlying reason for the shoddy pace of delivery is due to the measly amount of money the courier company receives for each delivery, sources further said.
‘Kashmiris are facing history’s longest lockdown’
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January 6, 2021
LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Law and Chairman Kashmir Committee Punjab Raja Basharat in a special message on the occasion of Kashmir’s Right to Self-Determination Day said that India’s oppression on the people of Occupied Kashmir had been going on for 72 years.
He said that human rights were being badly violated in India and the lives of minorities, especially Muslims, had been made too hard. Raja Basharat urged the entire international community, including the United Nations that it was their legal and moral responsibility to implement the Security Council’s resolutions on Kashmir. “The Kashmiri people are facing the longest lockdown in history but we want to make it clear to India that the Pakistani nation will continue to protest until the Kashmiri brothers get the right to self-determination,” he said. He also expressed his resolution, that the struggle for independence of Kashmiri
Lahore [Pakistan], January 3 (ANI): The much-touted WiFi project launched by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government in 2017, has been shut down on Saturday by Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government in Pakistan's Punjab province including its capital Lahore after heavy annual losses.
In January 2019, the project was suspended due to non-payment of dues to Pakistan Telecommunication Company.
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LAHORE: The much-touted WiFi project launched by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government in 2017, has been shut down on Saturday by Imran Khan s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government in Pakistan s Punjab province including its capital Lahore after heavy annual losses.
Citing sources, the Express Tribune reported that the project was costing Rs 195 million annually, causing a heavy dent to the provincial exchequer.
The Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) had been providing free internet service at public places for the last several years, while the project was started to provide the facility at over 200 WiFi hotspots in Lahore, Multan and Rawalpindi.
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