LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister’s Special Assistant for Information and Spokesperson of the provincial government Hassan Khawar said Wednesday that people will see the impression of a deal related to the return of Mian Nawaz Sharif will gradually be linked to his health and politics.
These views were expressed by SACM Punjab Hasaan Khawar during a press conference here at the DGPR on Wednesday. He said that even platelets did not decrease as fast as the narrative of PMLN is declining. Hasaan Khawar said that successive audio leaks related to media show how, in the previous regime, conspiracies against democracy were hatched to willfully doctor ideologies, and to align independent voices to personal likes and dislikes.
Speaking on the Right to Self-Determination Day, Hasaan Khawar said that on behalf of the government and 22 crore Pakistanis, he would like to send a message to our Kashmiri brothers and sisters that our heartfelt prayers, thoughts and best wishes were with Kashmiris. The time has come for the world powers to play their role in giving the Kashmiri people their due in the light of the UN Charter. He further said that due to the restrictions imposed by the corona, valuable time of the youth was wasted and employment opportunities were also reduced. To make up for this shortfall, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has introduced a 2-year one-time relaxation in age limit for Provincial Management Services and other recruitments from grade 1 to 16, from 1st January to 31st December 2022. This specific age relaxation does not apply on recruitments in police force, he said, and that this particular relaxation will be applicable along with other relaxations already announced.
In response to a question about Bilawal Bhutto’s visit to Lahore, Hasaan Khawar said that this visit can be converted into a case study on good governance and better service delivery by briefing him on underground water storage, roads, flyovers, underpasses, performance evaluation mechanism, Covid vaccination and what not. Perhaps under this pretext, the people of Sindh can emerge from the darkness and see the face of improvement under PPP rule.
He prayed for speedy recovery of Dr Yasmeen Rashid and Mian Aslam Iqbal and said that robust testing, social distancing and targeted vaccination were necessary to deal with Omicron variant. Due to effective strategy of Buzdar government, Punjab today is ahead of other provinces with 70 percent partial or complete vaccination. He said that till March 31, the people of Punjab would have access to health cards in all 9 divisions. The issuance of health cards is a revolutionary initiative that will solve other problems in the health sector as well, SACM stated. Responding to a question on PTI foreign funding case, he said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) believed in transparency. After the Election Commission’s investigation, misconceptions about the PTI’s funding model will automatically disappear, and Prime Minister Imran Khan will, as always, emerge victorious.
