Punjab Governor Omar Sarfraz Cheema mentioned on Thursday that he had determined to ship a reference in opposition to Lahore Excessive Court docket’s (LHC) Justice Jawad Hassan to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) for what he known as an “unlawful determination” of directing the Nationwide Meeting speaker to manage oath to Chief Minister-elect Hamza Shehbaz.
The SJC is a specialised discussion board created beneath Article 209 of the Structure particularly for figuring out complaints of misconduct obtained in opposition to judges.
Addressing a press convention in Lahore, Cheema mentioned he had determined to take authorized motion in opposition to the choose after consultations with professionals over the past two days.
Final month, Justice Hassan had issued a nine-page verdict after Hamza approached the excessive court docket for the third time, ending a days-long impasse over the chief minister’s workplace in Punjab.
Subsequently, Hamza, who was elected as Punjab chief minister on April 16, was administered the oath by NA Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on April 30.
In his press convention immediately, Cheema termed the LHC choose’s verdict “unlawful”, saying that in response to the honeycomb precept, no establishment might “intervene” within the working of one other establishment.
There was no provision within the Structure that acknowledged that anybody moreover the president or the governor might challenge a notification relating to the brand new chief minister, he added.
The governor additionally shared that he had requested conferences with the president and the military chief to debate the state of affairs within the province.
He additionally suggested Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to make his son, Hamza, conscious of the way to contest the election for the chief minister in a constitutional approach, stressing that he would administer the oath himself if Hamza did that.
Earlier within the day, Cheema claimed that if Chief of Military Employees Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa offered him with one subedar and 4 jawans, he would arrest just lately sworn-in Chief Minister Hamza, who he termed “unlawful, unconstitutional and counterfeit”, and throw him in jail.
In a collection of early morning tweets, he mentioned that the province, which was dealing with a constitutional and authorized disaster, had been “taken hostage by pressure” and termed the political events’ silence “very regarding”.
If everybody had accepted the Hamza Shehbaz “components” for turning into the chief minister in Punjab, the opposite provinces ought to begin worrying for themselves, he added.
In a follow-up tweet, he mentioned that if those that had “torn up the Structure and the legislation by pressure” have been protected, then anybody might take over a constitutional workplace in the identical approach sooner or later.
Cheema mentioned he had all the time demanded a “impartial umpire” in his 26-year-long political profession. He elaborated {that a} “impartial umpire” maintained the identical guidelines for each side, in any other case, he couldn’t be known as “impartial” and the sport wouldn’t be honest.
“I’ve clarified in my assertion what sort of intervention I count on and what’s wanted. I’d have appealed to the general public if I wasn’t the governor.
“Political events have all the time demanded the [army’s] 111 Brigade up to now. I’ve requested to not less than present me with 4 jawans and one subedar,” he tweeted.
The disaster in Punjab had begun when Governor Cheema on April 17, a day after the election of the chief minister in a stormy session of the Punjab Meeting that descended into downright violence, refused to manage oath to Chief Minister-elect Hamza, stating the meeting secretary’s report, LHC’s directions and information introduced to him raised objections on the validity of the election.
Within the election, scores of PTI MPAs have been injured, in addition to meeting Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi — one of many two candidates for the chief ministership.
Hamza had bagged 197 votes, together with 26 from PTI dissidents, whereas Elahi didn’t get any because the PTI and PML-Q lawmakers felt they weren’t allowed to vote.
Subsequently, Hamza had approached the Lahore Excessive Court docket on April 21, which instructed President Dr Arif Alvi to nominate a consultant to manage the oath within the absence of the governor.
Nevertheless, after a delay by the president in following the court docket’s directive, Hamza had approached the court docket once more on April 25. This time, he had requested the LHC to instruct Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani to manage oath to him. In his ruling, LHC Chief Justice Ameer Bhatti had directed Governor Cheema to finish Hamza’s oath-taking course of by April 28.
When the president and governor nonetheless did not observe the court docket’s directions, Hamza sought the LHC’s intervention for a 3rd time on April 29.
On the court docket’s instructions, Nationwide Meeting Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf lastly administered the oath to Hamza the following day.
Nevertheless, hours earlier than Hamza’s oath-taking ceremony, Cheema had rejected earlier chief minister Usman Buzdar’s resignation and restored his cupboard, which even convened for a gathering.
Whereas the oath-taking ceremony was underway, Governor Cheema had urged the chief justice to take discover of the “ghunda gardi” (thuggery) on the Governor Home. He had additionally mentioned the “drama of a faux chief minister’s oath” was being carried out in an “unconstitutional” method.
The governor had additionally termed the notification for Hamza’s assumption of the CM workplace “faux”.
“Because the governor, I’m not permitting the notification for the appointment of any unconstitutional and faux chief minister. The way in which they forcibly and deceitfully put up a drama of the oath-taking, they’ve now tried to organize a faux notification for it,” he tweeted on the time.
In a press convention a day later, Cheema had known as Buzdar’s resignation as an actual “fitna” (mischief) behind the constitutional disaster in Punjab.
He had described the resultant oath-taking ceremony “after taking Governor Home hostage” as illegal and unconstitutional. He mentioned the prime minister’s son Hamza used the Punjab police and forms as his “ghunda pressure” and finally had CM Buzdar denotified and Hamza notified as chief minister with out sending his recommendation to take action.
In the meantime, the formation of the brand new provincial cupboard has been delayed until Cheema’s elimination.
The PML-N had already introduced handing over the Punjab governor’s workplace to its ally PPP that nominated Makhdoom Ahmad Mahtemper, its south Punjab president, for the slot.
In addition to Pak Military, FIA and IB officers will monitor issues from PMUs, act in opposition to folks concerned in corruption and energy theft
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has determined handy over the supervision of loss-making Discos to Pakistan Military to curb electrical energy thief and losses apart from enhance restoration of electrical energy payments.
In response to officers aware of the event, a serving brigadier and his supporting employees comprising officers from the Federal Investigation Company (FIA) and Intelligence Bureau (IB) will oversee issues on the Efficiency Monitoring Items (PMUs) to be established in in all of the loss-making Discos.
The monitoring group could have the mandate to determine corrupt components throughout the Discos in addition to folks abetting and stealing electrical energy. These officers may even have the authority to take motion in opposition to the perpetrators.
“We’ve got carved out a plan which is but to be authorized by larger authorities. Nonetheless, the highest functionaries of Energy Division have made up their minds to start out implementation of the plan from HESCO (Hyderabad Electrical Provide Firm) as a pilot mission,” the secretary energy confirmed.
“This can assist determine unscrupulous components throughout the Disco and other people hand in glove with theft of electrical energy and inflicting billions of rupee losses to the nationwide exchequer,” he added.
In response to the info for the monetary 12 months 2020-21, the restoration of electrical energy payments in HESCO was at 73.7%, in SPECO 64.6%, in QESCO at 34.66% and TESCO at 25.29%.
The caretaker vitality minister, on September 6, introduced a crackdown plan on electrical energy thieves mentioning that the system yearly braves the colossal loss on account of electrical energy theft and failure to pay payments amounting to Rs589 billion.
As of September 6 this 12 months, the overall loss within the Discos the place restoration is comparatively higher — in Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Multan and Islamabad — amounted to 79 billion items, which is the same as a lack of Rs100 billion out of billing of Rs3,044 bn, estimated at 3%. Equally, the Discos in Peshawar, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Quetta, Azad Jammu and Kashmir had losses as excessive as 60%.
Nonetheless, within the loss-making firms resembling HESCO, SEPCO, QESCO and TESCO, the required outcomes will not be being attained which is why it has been determined that Efficiency Monitoring Items are to be headed by a serving brigadier with supporting employees from FIA and IB.
ISLAMABAD: The official commerce physique of the retail sector within the nation has opposed the closure of markets and retailers in view of controlling the rising smog, as the federal government is attempting to manage mitigate air air pollution by decreasing industrial exercise.
Addressing a ceremony on Thursday Chairman CAP Tariq Mehboob noticed that heavy transport, burning of waste and crop residue and non-compliant factories contribute to smog probably the most, not the retail sector.
“No different nation or area is shutting down markets to manage air air pollution. As is the case in China and our neighboring nations, the main focus should be on controlling motion of huge automobiles which use low high quality gas and emit black smoke; cracking down on burning of waste and stopping factories which might be polluting by burning wooden, tyres, and many others. because of the absence of pure fuel,” he identified.
Talking to media, Tariq Mehboob stated, “For the reason that previous one 12 months, the retail timings are already restricted to 10 PM as per the orders of the Court docket. For the previous few weeks, extra restrictions have been utilized together with late opening and full day closures that are leading to big losses to retail companies and allied sectors, employment and tax technology.”
For the reason that Covid-19 pandemic, shutting down retail has turn into the norm each time any disaster emerges and it solely has a superficial influence on the issue. Retailers have skilled over 30 extended bouts of restrictions on working timings and days over the previous 4 years, with compliant retailers being the worst affected each time.
Much less distinguished markets seldom observe any restrictions imposed by authorities resulting from restricted enforcement capability, as per CAP.
“Not too long ago, ad-hoc modifications to notifications have resulted in confusion and abrupt disruptions for our companies and workers. Furthermore, eating places and different service sectors have been allowed to stay open whereas retailers should shut, so motion of small automobiles nonetheless continues throughout closed interval.
We can’t help the closure of any industrial exercise as a result of it doesn’t addressing the basis causes of smog. Shutting down just one sector repeatedly won’t create the specified leads to smog discount or electrical energy saving,” acknowledged Asad Shafi, Vice Chairman CAP.
On this challenge, Tariq Mehboob defined that, “implementation of full retail shutdown in 6 main divisions of Punjab on final Sunday has resulted in a rare lack of Rs. 10 billion for retail companies, the home provide chain and tax revenues.
That is along with losses already incurred over the previous few weeks throughout associated restrictions. November and December is the height season for retail and companies have allotted their funding a number of months prematurely. Whereas nearly all the pieces else stays open, the organized retail sector has repeatedly turn into the sufferer to abrupt selections and knee-jerk reactions from the authorities. Our business is structured to run 7 days per week and after we are restricted in timings or off-days, we take successful as most of our prices proceed for the closed interval. Furthermore, our suppliers and distributors additionally endure as a result of demand of their services and products are affected, resulting in a domino impact. Such counter-productive selections are creating an pointless drag on revitalizing the financial system and boosting employment.”
The federal government ought to take us into confidence at each stage and applied balanced options that don’t damage the financial system. Whereas we wholeheartedly abide by the choice of the Punjab Authorities, we want to suggest an alternate method which will successfully contribute to smog discount with out adversely affecting home commerce.”
“For instance, the federal government is closing retail on weekends that are the best sale days and hypothetically solely decreasing smog for 10-12 hours of retail timing for 2 days.
If retail closure is seen as a vital measure, our suggestion is to contemplate adjusting the day by day retail working hours to start at 1 or 2 pm, permitting for a day by day saving of 4-5 hours within the morning which might be extra sustainable. This modification goals to strike a steadiness between mitigating smog influence and persevering with financial actions, and, consequently, employment and taxation revenues.
Moreover, manufacturers have thousands and thousands of followers on their social media and authorities can collaborate with them to coach and talk to common public for such initiatives on how you can scale back air air pollution and keep away from its dangerous results.
PESHAWAR: The Anti-Terrorism Division (CTD) on Thursday launched a report on the fear incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2023.
In line with the CTD report, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) witnessed as many as 563 terror incidents this yr. Out of 563 incidents, police had been focused 243 occasions.
In line with the report, the very best 132 incidents of terrorism had been reported in Dera Ismail Khan, 103 incidents in Khyber and 89 terror incidents had been reported in Peshawar?
The report additional revealed that 86 occasions terrorists attacked North Waziristan and 50 occasions South Waziristan? The report additional stated that as many as 837 terrorists had been taken into custody.
The best variety of arrested outlaws was from Peshawar 245.
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