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KARACHI: Sindh Governor Imran Ismail on Thursday rejected Police Reforms Act after raising a number of objection over its amendments, ARY News reported. According to sources, the Sindh governor stated in his objection to the provincial government, “It cannot be called a bill due to the series of amendments [in laws]. The provincial government has eliminated 80 Section out of 190 in the Reforms’ Act.” The governor suggested the provincial government to prefer formulating a new bill instead of amending the older regulations. Governor Ismail stated, “The amended bill has almost ended all authorities of Inspector General (IG) Sindh Police as the role of police chief will remain like a postman.” It emerged that the amended bill will confine IG to post or transfer any of the police officers and the provincial government would be fully authorised to remove the police chief. Read More: Police reforms committee comprise well-known experts: CJP “I’ve asked Sindh government to forward bill...

ISLAMABAD: President Dr. Arif Alvi here on Thursday directed the ministry of information to broaden its mandate to counter anti-state propaganda and project a soft image of the country on cyber space. Presiding over a high-level meeting on social media, President Alvi said that social media was the harbinger of social change and had easy and vast outreach among the masses. During the meeting, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan apprised the president that every effort was being made to effectively use this platform to promote the progressive and democratic image of Pakistan across the world. Read More: President Alvi calls for promoting Pakistan’s soft image She said, “like print and electronic media, social media advertisement is also under consideration in the new advertisement policy.” The Secretary Information Mr. Shafqat Jalil apprised the president regarding the structural contours of social media setup in the ministry....

Prime Minister Imran Khan in a message to the nation today, Thursday addressed the dire taxation issue being faced by the country where only 1%  people out of a population of 220 million are tax filers, ARY News reported. Out of 22 crore people in Pakistan, only 1% pay their taxes. This is why we still lag behind in terms of education, health and infrastructure than most other nations. Get your assets declared by 30th June 2019 and contribute to the growth & prosperity of Pakistan. pic.twitter.com/5ZxDn3YG2g — PTI (@PTIofficial) May 30, 2019 Prime Minister Pakistan in a recorded video message addressing the nation says, “I am here to discuss a very critical matter with the people of Pakistan, only 1% of the population is filing taxes and bearing the weight of the other 99%.” “If you do not pay your taxes then we can’t help rebuild the country, we can’t work on hospitals, schools and basic infrastructure due to lack of tax collection,” said the PM. Read More:  Chin...

LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Health Dr. Yasmin Rashid here on Thursday announced that the provincial government would establish a state-of-the-art center in Punjab Institute of Mental Health (PIMH) for dementia patients.   Presiding over a high-level meeting at Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education Department, Dr. Yasmin directed to constitute a special committee for providing proper care to the patients of dementia. According to a statement issued by the Punjab Directorate General Public Relations, the minister said, “Dementia patients will be properly registered in all the public sector hospitals of the Punjab.” She said that vacant posts of neurologists and psychologists in the public sector hospitals would soon be filled. Read More: Air pollution linked to higher risk of dementia: study “Memory clinics will also be established in the Punjab for provision of better healthcare facilities to the dementia patients,” the minister said and added that special committ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan arrived in Medina for a three-day visit on Thursday to attend the 14th Summit of Origination of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which will be held in Makkah on May 31, ARY News reported. Khan  will pay his respects on the Roza-e-Rasool (Peace Be Upon Him) and offer Nawafil on the sacred place of worship after which he will depart for Jeddah to attend the Islamic Summit meeting. The summit will be presided upon by the Saudi King Shah Salman bin Abdul Aziz. Read More:  Shah Mehmood Qureshi calls on OIC secretary general The summit is being held under the banner of ‘together for the future’ aims to unite Muslim countries on one platform to better tackle the difficulties and challenges they are facing. Prior to the Prime Minister’s visit, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mehmood Qureshi who had arrived earlier to Saudi Arabia and participated in the ministerial meetings of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) where he met various For...

LAHORE: Restraining the private schools from charging two months fee for summer vacations, Punjab Minister for School Education Murad Raas here on Thursday said that no school was allowed to charge more than one month fee for the vacation in the province. Murad Raas asked the parents to lodge their complaints about school fee to the concerned CEO of the education department. He directed the CEOs to take strict and swift action over the complaints. The minister further said that summer vacation did not mean to increase financial burden on the parents. Read More: No school to be allowed to charge fee for summer break: Sindh minister Earlier on April 9, Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah had said that in compliance with the apex court’s verdict, no school would be allowed to charge fee for summer break. Talking to journalists, Syed Sardar Ali Shah had warned of strict action against the schools, who forced students and parents to buy stationary from the academy. He had ...

A high level duo lead by Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan presiding over proceedings addressing a press conference today, Thursday announced that 313 Pakistani products will be declared ‘duty-free’ by China, ARY News reported. A press conference conducted by Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan and Advisor to Prime Minister on commerce Abdul Razak Dawood in a press briefing expressed happiness on the successful arrival of stranded Pakistani prisoners in Malaysia. 315 prisoners of Pakistani descent were freed from Malaysian prison after completion of their jail terms. Taking over proceedings Dawood expanded on trade and business related matters of the State, saying: There has been a lot of talk about our export’s suffering and people question related to our export figures quite often, I would like to clear the air on our exports.” “We must take a look at the global trade, global trade has suffered a 3 percent decline due to the U...