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QUETTA, June 17: The provincial governor has summoned the budget session of Balochistan on Friday, it was officially announced here on Wednesday.
Provincial Finance Minister Syed Ehsan Shah will present the budget at 4pm on Friday in the Balochistan assembly.
Sources said that after positive indications from Islamabad, a better budget was expected from the Balochistan government.
The federal government has agreed to provide Rs9 billion as demanded by the provincial government for making its budget.
However, sources in the finance department said that despite getting the said amount, Balochistan would still face a shortfall of Rs1 billion.
They said Islamabad had assured the provincial government to provide resources for bridging this shortfall in next fiscal year.
The Balochistan government had also demanded that the province should be given its share from the federal divisible pool in the next National Finance Commission award according to its constitutional quota.
Arms seized: Police seized illegal arms and ammunition on Monday from different parts of Qila Abdullah and Panjgur areas of Balochistan and arrested three persons.
Sources said Pishin police headed by DPO Abdul Ali Tareen had raided a house on a tip-off in Qila Abdullah and seized 33 rockets, 52 hand grenades and several thousand rounds of different automatic weapons. However, no gunrunner could be arrested.
In another raid conducted by police in Panjgur, three persons were arrested for gunrunning. The police seized one kalashnikov, 8 pistols, a China made rifle, hundreds of rounds and a motorbike from them.
DEATH AWARDED: The special court for suppression of terrorism here awarded the death penalty to two persons in a murder case.
The judge Mohammad Shaukat Rakshani awarded Abdul Qahar the death sentence in two cases.
The other person sentenced to death was Ziauddin. The two were accused of killing Rabuka Bibi, 14, her brothers, Ruallah, 11, and Samiullah, 3, on January 31. The accused had raped the girl before killing her.
The court ordered that Qahar would under go 10 years imprisonment in the rape case and a fine of Rs200,000 would be paid to the victims’ family as compensation.
BHC: A division bench of the Balochistan High Court on Thursday dismissed an application of a woman who had been sent to Darul Aman by a judicial magistrate.
The applicant, Sher Bano, who had a dispute with her husband, had submitted that she should be released or shifted to Larkana or Hyderabad.
The bench comprising Chief Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Akhtar Zaman Malghani rejected the application when she refused to go with her father.
