BAHAWALPUR City News

‘Govt striving hard to revitalise agri sector’

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BAHAWALPUR: Punjab Agriculture Minister Dr Farrukh Javed has said that the Punjab government is striving hard to revitalise agriculture sector to extend socio-economic relief to millions of peasants in the province.

He said this while talking to peasants and farmers during an inspection of cotton fields at Musafir Khana Mauza Sui-Wahar and Mauza Hoot-Wala here on Sunday. The minister talked with the peasants and farmers about the provision of various facilities by the government regarding supplying of electricity for agri tube-wells and fertilisers at concessionary rates. He also issued directions to the officials of the Agriculture Department to resolve various issues of peasants. The minister said that the country’s sustainable food security was linked to prosperity of peasants. He said that the Punjab CM had earmarked millions of rupees in the current budget to extend economic relief to the peasants. Earlier, EDO Agriculture Ch Tanveer briefed the minister about various ongoing development programmes started by the Agriculture Department in the district.

PROTEST AGAINST POLICE: Hundreds of residents of Malikpur, Khan Bela, Tranda M Pannah, Janpur and surrounding areas staged a demonstration against Tranda M Pannah and Khan Bela check-post policemen for allegedly torturing and injuring a local hotel and tea-stall workers for demanding bill from them.

The protesters blocked traffic on KLP National Highway in protest for many hours. The protesters also staged a sit-in against the police and demanded action against the cops.

 

Those think PPP has finished live in fool’s paradise: Gilani

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BAHAWALPUR: Former prime minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani and Punjab former governor Makhdoom Ahmad Mehmood have said that those, who say that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has finished, live in fool’s paradise.

They were addressing the PPP workers convention here on Sunday. They said that the PPP was the biggest political party of the country. Gilani said: “The PPP is like our family and its workers are our family members.” He said that the workers conventions were being organised to know the sentiments of the workers and it would help the party leadership in its reorganisation. The former prime minister said that the PPP during its regime made the farmers prosperous and empowered the women. He said that the PPP launched the Benazir Income Support Programme for the poor and elderly women of the country. He said that the BISP was appreciated across the world. Whenever the PPP formed its government, it gave important and big portfolios to the south Punjab people, he added.

Makhdoom Ahmad Mehmood said that the PPP was the only party which represented the masses in country while the PML-N and the PTI represented elite class. He said that the PPP had given dignity to its workers, particularly in south Punjab. He said that the PPP workers would work together to regain the past glory of the party. The former governor claimed that the PPP had given respect to him and the south Punjab workers and that was the reason that he was still with the party despite many pressures and temptations.

The former governor said that the Takhat-e-Lahore was usurping rights of the people of the south Punjab. He said that hospitals of the south Punjab were in pathetic conditions. The convention was also addressed by PPP former MNA and district president Malik Amir Yar Warran, Abdul Qadir Shaheen, Sajjad Abbasi, Muhammad Hussain Azad, Safdar Shahbaz, Muhammad Saleem Bhatti, Sadiq Ali Noshad, PPP Coordination Committee for south Punjab members Mehmood Hayat Toochi Khan, Shaukat Basra, Mian Nawazish Ali Pirzada and Malik Habib Bhutta.

Later, former prime minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani and Punjab former governor Makhdoom Ahmad Mehmood chaired the workers convention of the People’s Youth Organisation (PYO) south Punjab.