NA Speaker wants ‘competitive profitability’ for tobacco farmers
July 20, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser called for close scrutiny of the existing policy framework for the tobacco farmers, urging all the stakeholders to eliminate hurdles to provide competitive profitability to them.
While presiding over a meeting of the National Assembly’s Special Committee on agricultural products on Monday at Parliament House, Asad Qaiser said, “The problems of cotton and tobacco growers would be tackled on priority in the next meetings of the special committee on agricultural products and an all-out effort would be made to ensure that the farmers to receive decent profit for their toil.” Reports said the tobacco farmers from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had written letters to the Speaker of the National Assembly regarding their concerns, requesting him to end their sufferings.
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Another experiment to govern PIMS perishes
July 15, 2021
Islamabad : Envisioned to promote good governance at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), the Board of Governors (BoG) constituted under the now lapsed Medical Teaching Institutes (MTI) Ordinance has become part of history, with no constructive work to its credit during a tenure spanning eight months.
Elated health workers Wednesday observed ‘Salvation Day’ at PIMS, which has reverted to its erstwhile status of being an attached department of the federal government. They celebrated their victory with a prayer and distribution of sweets.
The celebration was arranged by the Federal Grand Health Alliance and its constituent organisations including YDA, YCA, as well as associations of nurses, paramedics, and non-gazette staff, who called off their strike later in the evening after a round of successful negotiations with Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Health Dr. Faisal Sultan. The workers had been p