FAISALABAD-Provincial Minister for Cooperative Mehr Muhammad Aslam Bharwana has said that reforms are being introduced in the cooperative department.
He was addressing a farewell party of retired officers here on Saturday while Secretary Cooperative Punjab Ch Ahmed Raza Sarwar, Deputy Registrar Cooperative Ashfaq Shahid and others were also present.
He said over 100 tractors had been distributed among small farmers on subsidized rates in the province.
Pindi Bhattian-Four persons including two children have died in traffic mishap on Motorway M2 near Sukheki.
According to Rescue sources a speedy car on its way from Lahore to Jhooria village hit a truck from rear near Sukheke at Motorway-2 leaving four persons dead and three injured.
According to the motorway police, the resident of Bhalwar, Khushi Muhammad along with his family was returning from Lahore to his village.
On the way near Sukhekhi’s rest area their car crashed into the truck, as a result all the four members of the family including Khushi Muhammad, Aqib, Asma, and Aqsa Bashir died on spot.
In the incident three others got injured and are stated to be in critical condition. They were shifted to the district hospital of Pindi Bhattian.
Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar directed the district management to provide the best medical facilities, to the injured persons. He has also condoled with bereaved family over the death of 4 persons.
District admin serves notices to owners of 50 cattle pens
MULTAN- The district administration Saturday issued notices to owners of 50 cattle pens to shift their animals outside urban area otherwise stringent action would be taken against them.
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Toba Tek Singh-A teenager died when he got trapped in a spinning mills machine here at Nawan Lahore on Saturday.
The deceased, 13 years old Rehman was at work at Friends Textile Spinning Mills when his body got trapped in a machine, resulting in serious injuries to him.
He was rushed to Nawan Lahore rural health centre where he succumbed to his wounds after a few hours.
When contacted, Labour Welfare Department (LWD) Assistant Director (AD) Chaudry Muhammad Shahbaz claimed that as per initial inquiry into the incident, it had been found out that deceased was not a worker at the mills and his father Ghulam Mustafa was a worker instead.
He added that mills management had claimed that deceased had come to the mills to supply meal to his father, but he mistakenly got trapped in the spinning machine and died.
LWD AD further told that he had ordered an inquiry into the incident, and he will take action against the mills management in case it was proved that their negligence led to the incident or it was found out that the child was a labourer at the mills.
MULTAN-Horticulture department of Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) was assigned the task to plant 100,000 shady trees in couple of month here across the district
An official of the department informed that jurisdiction of horticulture was divided into four zones with each zone to plant about 12,500 trees every month to accomplish the target being fixed until March 31.
Few old trees would be replaced with newly ones, he told APP here on Saturday.
He said, Director General (DG) PHA Muhammad Afzal Nasir had issued directives to horticulture branch which already started plantation in different nooks and corners of the city.
No tree would remain below six feet high, he said and adding that they would try to keep trees’ size bigger to ensure their long existence besides provision of water to be ensured at green belts. Meanwhile, DG PHA paid visit to different parks and nurseries the other day. He said they would complete task of nurturing 100,000 sapling across the district as per direction of supreme judiciary.
FAISALABAD-Police have arrested 14 person over one-wheeling, over speeding and road blocking in the city during last 24 hours.
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FAISALABAD-Punjab Highways Patrolling Police Faisalabad region have set target of planting 100,000 saplings during a two weeks plantation campaign starting from February 15.
The plantation drive is being started on the directions of Additional Inspector General Punjab Highways Patrolling Police Capt (R) Zafar Iqbal Awan.
SSP Patrolling police Faisalabad region Farooq Ahmed Hundal said here Saturday that saplings will be planted in Jhang, Toba Tek Singh, Chiniot and Faisalabad districts.
He said that total number of highways patrolling police posts in the region are 50 and every police post will plant minimum 2000 saplings during the campaign.
He said that officers of all ranks would ensure their participation in the drive to make the drive successful and to achieve set target.
ATTOCK-Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Central Punjab President Qamar Zaman Kaira has said that days of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government are numbered owing to its anti-people policies.
He was addressing a Labour Convention at Jallo near Burhan on Saturday. The convention was arranged by the local chapter of Peoples Labour Bureau (PLB).
He said that Pakistan was facing constitutional and administrative crises due to ‘incompetent’ rulers who had failed on all fronts. “The PTI government has failed to deliver as prices of wheat flour, sugar and other essential items have increased manifold and gone beyond the reach of the common man,” Kaira said, and held members of the federal cabinet responsible for the sugar and flour crises in the country.
He wondered as to why rates of sugar were on the rise when sugar mills were not operational contrary to the usual start of crushing season by November-end each year.
On the other hand, he said that sugarcane growers were not being paid their dues by the millers. He criticised the government for increasing the gas and electricity tariffs. Kaira said that one million people were rendered jobless during the last one year due to the policies of the government that was supposed to bring “change”.
“It is feared that another 12 million people will be unemployed this year,” he expressed apprehension.
The PPP leader said that the economic crisis would lead the country to catastrophic consequences. He said that due to the high cost of food in this agricultural country, poor people were suffering the most.
“PTI leadership can no longer deceive its allies who already seem annoyed because of the unfulfilled promises of the incumbent government,” he said, and questioned why the government was importing wheat when new crop was arriving soon.
He said that PPP would soon launch countrywide drive against inflation in which public meetings would also be arranged to mobilize masses against the present government.
Divisional President PPP and former state minister from Rawalpindi Sardar Salim Haider Khan, District President PPP Attock Sardar Asher Hayat Khan, ticket holder from NA 55 Sardar Zulfiqar Hayat Khan, President PLB Punjab Syed Nazar Hussain Shah, President People’s Unity Ramzan Leghari, President PYO Punjab Zohaib Butt and ticket holder from PP-1 Sardar Irfan Akhori also spoke on the occasion.
The announcement comes after Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main political rival Benjamin ‘Benny’ Gantz. The Palestinian authorities have repeatedly objected to the plan, as its details were trickling out, and mass protests are expected in the Palestinian territories as Israel tightens security measures.
US President Donald Trump has unveiled his long-anticipated Middle East plan – effectively his administration’s vision for the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Trump said that under his plan Jerusalem will remain Israel’s ‘undivided’ capital.
Israel’s West Bank settlements would be recognised by the United States.
However, Israel would freeze the construction of new settlements on Palestinian territories for four years while Palestinian statehood is negotiated. Trump said that the US will open an embassy to Palestine in East Jerusalem.
The US president said that his Palestine-Israel map would “more than double” the Palestinian territory.
“I want this deal to be a great deal for the Palestinians, it has to be. Today’s agreement is a historic opportunity for the Palestinians to finally achieve an independent state of their own,” Trump said. “These maps will more than double Palestinian territory and provide a Palestinian capital in Eastern Jerusalem where America will proudly open its embassy.”
He added that the US and Israel would create a committee to implement the proposed peace plan.
“My vision presents a win-win opportunity for both sides, a realistic two-state solution that resolves the risk of Palestinian statehood to Israel’s security,” Trump said during a press conference.
On Monday, Donald Trump held separate meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz. Neither of the two managed to achieve a decisive victory in general elections in April or September last year, and a third vote is scheduled for March to break the impasse.
Benny Gantz, the leader of the centre-right Blue and White alliance, praised Trump’s plan following Monday’s meeting in Washington and promised to put it into practice if he wins the March election. Netanyahu has not commented publicly on it yet.
There has been some speculation in the media that Trump wants Netanyahu and Gantz to work together toward implementing the plan.
No Palestinians at the table
Trump had not met with any Palestinian representatives prior to the announcement; Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had reportedly turned down several offers to discuss the proposal.
Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza have called for mass protests against the peace plan, prompting the Israeli military to reinforce troops in the Jordan Valley.
President Abbas reportedly greenlighted a “Day of Rage” over the Trump plan on Wednesday, paving the way for violent clashes between protesters and Israeli forces. He is currently holding an emergency meeting of the executive bodies of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Fatah party.
Palestinians have also floated the possibility of quitting the Oslo accords, which created the Palestinian Authority and regulate its relations with the state of Israel.
The Oslo accords, signed in the 1990s, officially created the Palestinian Authority as a structure tasked with exercising self-governance over the territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
A long path behind
Trump was adamant that Palestinians would be forced to accept his plan in the end. “We have the support of the prime minister, we have the support of the other parties, and we think we will ultimately have the support of the Palestinians, but we’re going to see,” he said on Monday.
Trump has largely outsourced the creation of the plan to his adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner. The initial idea was to publish it after the April 2019 election in Israel, but the uncertainty hanging over the Knesset over the past year has delayed the announcement.
Jared Kushner unveiled the economic portion of the plan this past summer at a conference in Bahrain, but failed to shore up support from Palestinians and faced widespread condemnation instead.
Israelis and Palestinians have been embroiled in a conflict ever since the State of Israel came into existence. Previous American administrations, in line with the United Nations’s approach, had long favoured an arrangement that envisaged an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with its capital in East Jerusalem.
The Trump administration reversed that policy and made a series of decidedly pro-Israel moves in the past three years. Those included moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and recognising the Golan Heights (which it annexed illegally from Syria) and Israeli settlements in the West Bank (illegal under international law) as parts of Israel.