LAHORE: Women to contest for Nazim's posts on PML ticket
By Our Reporter
LAHORE, Aug 24: The Pakistan Muslim League will award tickets to women for contesting the elections for Nazims and Naib Nazims in the next district government polls.
This was said by Punjab PML Secretary-General and Provincial Communications and Works Minister Chaudhry Zaheeruddin Khan while talking to a delegation of women, led by Provincial Population Welfare Minister Nasim Lodhi at the Muslim League House here on Tuesday.
He said the women would be awarded PML tickets on the basis of their services for the party. He said women comprised half of the population of the country and the political parties ignoring them could not play any effective role in society. The present government had acknowledged the importance of women by giving them 33 per cent seats in the local bodies and the legislature.
COLLEGE: The Punjab chief minister will lay the foundation stone of the first degree college for special education in Gulberg here on Sept 1. At a meeting held here on Tuesday, district Nazim Mian Amer said the college was being established as a pilot project in the Gung Mahal, the school for the education of deaf and dumb children.
He said the college would have co-education for the deaf, dumb, blind and disabled children. Special Education Minister Qudsia Lodhi said the government had allocated Rs2.1 million for the establishment of the college.
