More rain, snowfall is expected in the upper part of the country
SAME television – Posted: 26 Nov 2020 | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
Posted: 26 November 2020 | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
The weather in Karachi will become colder and the city will likely experience another 24 to 36 hours of chilly winds, the Pakistan Meteorological Department predicted on Thursday.
Mercury fell on the city after Wednesday’s first winter rain. The temperature in Karachi was 22 degrees Celsius on Thursday afternoon.
The maximum temperature in the city can be between 25 and 27 degrees, according to the Met Office. The current winter was just a few days away.
The city is likely to experience cooler weather in December too, with temperatures dropping a degree or two more than usual.
Most of Punjab was covered in thick fog on Thursday, reducing visibility to 60 to 120 meters. A highway spokesman advised motorists to use fog lights while driving.
Rain and snow continue to fall in the upper part of the country. Several roads were closed due to heavy snowfall in Galiyat over the past three days. The Met Office predicts the snowfall could continue through Thursday night.
It rained in several cities including Okara and Attock on Thursday. The wet spell is expected to last for one more day.
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Trying to drown out the differences, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh invited bete-noire Navjot Singh Sidhu for talks on Wednesday.
Sidhu, who quit the BJP to join Congress ahead of Punjab assembly elections in 2017, has had a difficult relationship with Amarinder, in large part because of the cricket player’s political ambitions turned politician and an independent movement that led to strife.
“Punjab CM Amarinder Singh invites Navjot Singh Sidhu for lunch tomorrow (25 November). He & Sidhu are expected to discuss state & national politics during the lunch meeting, ”Raveen Thukral, media adviser to the Chief Minister of Punjab said on Twitter.
The rift between the two leaders grew after Congress’s lower than expected performance in the Lok Sabha election in Punjab, with Amarinder blaming Sidhu for the loss of Congress candidates in Bhatinda and Gurdaspur to Harsimrat Kaur of Akali Dal and Sunny Deol of the BJP. .
Amarinder also disapproved of Sidhu’s visit to Pakistan to take part in Prime Minister Imran Khan’s inauguration and a much-talked-about hug with Pakistan Army Chief Qamar Bajwa.
Efforts to drown out differences with Sidhu began after former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat was appointed Secretary General of the AICC in charge of Punjab.
Rawat confirmed Sidhu’s presence at a tractor rally led by Rahul Gandhi organized by Congress in October to oppose agricultural sector reform.
However, even in Rahul’s presence, Sidhu has targeted the Amarinder government, asking to ensure that farmers get the minimum support price for their products if the Center fails to do so.
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) is not inclined to commit acts of mistrust against Prime Minister Imran Khan or Chief Minister of Punjab Usman Buzdar.
A senior PDM leader confessed to The News that although Asif Ali Zardari urged for this move, other people in PDM were reluctant to do so because they believed that such a move would not be successful without help from the existing forces. The failure of the motion of no confidence, either in the Center or in Punjab, will weaken the PDM and strengthen the PTI-led coalition government, it is believed.
Even if stances remain neutral in political movements by opposition parties, it is always easy for the sitting government to thwart a motion of no confidence by using its power to prevent the presence of opposition members in parliament.
The News recently reported that the following approach was reportedly carried out on some of the main components of the PDM to consider ways of replacing ‘tabdeeli’, the option of a vote of no confidence was also discussed. It said a motion of no confidence should first be filed against Buzdar and then, after the changes in Punjab, such a move could be initiated against Imran Khan at the Center.
Encouraged by this approach, it said, PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari had proposed a no-confidence option at the last meeting of top PDM leaders. However, that idea was not accepted by most of the other people at PDM. The PPP leadership supported the vote of no confidence in Usman Buzdar. PML-Q is also suggested to support this step. PPP also argues that whatever changes made must be strictly within the limits of the constitution.
Among the PDM parties, Maulana’s JUI-F and Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N opposed this idea and feared that such a move would weaken the PDM and its struggle. This is not only because the likelihood of a trustless measure succeeding without power support is low, but because it is also possible that the move was designed to end up hurting the PDM.
It is believed that most of the PTI coalition partners and even many within the ruling party would only support such a move when they were told to do so. In such a scenario, said the source, the fundamental cause of the PDM to relinquish the establishment from politics would be negated and the objective of forming an opposition alliance would fail.
While the PDM is now more focused on sacking Imran Khan’s government, there is no clear road map of how the opposition alliance will send the PTI government home. While the distrust movement is a constitutional way of overthrowing elected governments through internal changes, it has never worked in the past.
The political parties within the PDM are also well aware of how they failed to overthrow the current Senate Chairman, Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani, despite the fact that the opposition has a comfortable majority to do so.
LAHORE: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE), Punjab, has approved investigations into 37 Punjab politicians, The News has studied. According to a source at ACE, “Several MPAs and MNAs damaged national finances through fraudulent activities in various projects.”
ACE will also investigate the existing MPA and MNA, as some of them have been accused of occupying government land, the source added. “The Anti-Corruption Establishment, Punjab, has approved investigations into the activities of several PML-N leaders, including Rana Sanaullah, Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan, Khwaja Asif, Rana Mubashir, Abid Sher Ali, Malik Mohammad Afzal Hinjra, Malik Mohammad Ajmal Hinjra, Mian Riaz, Ibadullah Khan, Rana Muhammad Azeem, Ashraf Abbas Dogar, Riaz Goraya, Mian Zulfiqar, Sheikh Rohail Asghar, Sohail Shaukat Butt, Ghazali Saleem Butt, etc.
“Over the years, these MNA and PMA allegedly occupied state land worth billions of rupees.” According to the source, ACE Punjab Director General Gohar Nafees, while chairing the meeting, said the department would also investigate the existing MPA and MNA, as some of them had occupied state land.
Speaking with the clerk, ACE Director General Gohar Nafees said, “Cases are registered based on concrete evidence and those involved are arrested.” FIR against former MPA Sardar Mir Badshah Qaisrani, former MPA Ijaz Achlana, Wilayat Bibi, the mother of Javed Latif, has already been registered. In addition, the FIR against Ashraf Abbas and Riaz Goraya, suspected frontman Ahsan Iqbal, has been registered. ACE’s DG said that the Gulistan Cinema which was built on state land had been closed. Khan Plaza has also been sealed. sealed. He added that Khokhar Plaza, which belongs to Afzal Khokhar, has been sealed.
More cases will be registered based on evidence and those involved will be arrested, Punjab Anti-Corruption Directorate General Gohar Nafees. ACE Punjab also arrested Ahsan Raza Khan, who is wanted in two corruption cases. PML-N leaders are accused of building a market on the grounds of a government hospital in Kanganpur as well as building a housing association.
Both the commercial market and housing schemes are illegal and not approved by the Building Control Department, adds ACE DG. Deputy commissioner Kasur has sent references against Ahsan Raza Khan to ACE Punjab. ACE officials said they were carrying out raids to arrest the accused, who had moved to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa after a case was registered against him. The defendant was arrested by the anti-corruption team with the help of geo-fencing.
Circle Officer Attock Saeed Khan, Mattress Circle Officer Azam Minhas and a special police team chase suspects at the Mardan Rashakai Interchange. According to ACE officials, the defendant got out of his car to escape but was arrested by the team.
Earlier on November 10, Punjab Anti-Corruption Agency (ACE) officials arrested PML-N leader and former Sargodha mayor Aslam Naveed, on charges of ‘abuse of power. The day before, the anti-corruption wing in Multan arrested former PML-N and MPA leader Malik Abdul Ghaffar Dogar from his home.
PML-N Punjab spokesperson Azma Bukhari said there was no reality of occupying land or destroying the state treasury. In fact Imran Khan used the FIA, FBR and NAB against the PML-N and couldn’t prove anything. Now, he’s using Punjab’s Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) as a tool and he’s doomed to fail.
According to Azma, Imran used cheap tactics by submitting FIR to women including Kh Asif’s wife and Wilayat Bibi, Javed Latif’s mother. He said PML-N would move the court against the arrests.
ISLAMABAD – Punjab Education Minister Murad Raas on Sunday called for selective closure of schools where coronavirus cases are found instead of closing all schools at once, as the country recorded its highest daily infection in four months.
His opinion comes ahead of a meeting of all provincial education ministers under federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood today (Monday) to discuss the prevailing coronavirus conditions in the country.
Early and extended winter holidays will also be discussed, in line with the recommendations of the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC).
Provincial ministers will gather as Pakistan’s active coronavirus cases hit 26,538 after 2,443 more people tested positive for the virus in a 24-hour period, the biggest increase in cases since July 13. Thirty-two patients died in the same period according to the latest NCOC update. At least 1,569 Covid patients are hospitalized across the country, 196 of whom are on ventilators.
As authorities try to control the spread of the coronavirus, marriages, banquets and Karachi grass owners have rejected NCOC’s new coronavirus standard operating procedure (SOP). In a presser on Saturday, The Karachi Marriage Hall, Lawn, Banquet Owners Association denounced the new COVID-19 SOP as “economically marginalized”.
The association said thousands of employees and other businesses related to marriage and marriage would also be affected due to more restrictions and restrictions. The association chairman said the new SOP “contravenes the Constitution, which gives all citizens the freedom to obtain legal money”.
He explained that the wedding hall owner and his thousands of employees had faced a severe economic crisis when all halls were closed between March 13 and September 15 during the lockdown period.
The association said there are an estimated 800 wedding halls in Karachi alone, adding that the livelihoods of 50,000 people and their families are linked to these halls. “About 70 to 80 percent of our employees work on a daily wage,” he said, adding that the employee’s income depended on the daily wedding ceremony.
