PM orders action to address AJK, GB grievances
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif directed the authorities concerned on Wednesday to address the administrative, financial and development issues confronting the governments of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit- Baltistan.
According to the Prime Minister’s Office, Shehbaz Sharif asked Qamar Zaman Kaira, Adviser on Kashmir affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan, to get in touch with the two governments and try to address their grievances “in coordination with the Planning Commission and the finance ministry”.
Mr Kaira briefed the prime minister during a meeting about administrative, financial and development matters pertaining to Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan.
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, the Minister for Economic Affairs, also attended the meeting.
Text books
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif directed the Punjab Text Book Board to address the issue of non-availability of curriculum material at the earliest.
Mr Sharif asked Education Minister Rana Tanveer Hussain to take urgent action over the delay in publication of textbooks.
The prime minister asked Rana Tanveer to ensure that such a situation did not arise in the future.
PM greets President Xi
Shehbaz Sharif sent a message of felicitation to Chinese President Xi Jinping on his birthday.
“Happy birthday to H.E. President Xi Jinping,” the prime minister said in a tweet.
He said relations between Pakistan and China had seen immense growth under the dynamic leadership of President Xi.
“As an Iron Brother China, under your dynamic leadership, has emerged as all-weather strategic cooperative partner of Pakistan,” he said.
“We deeply appreciate President Xi’s resolve to build a Pakistan-China community of shared future.”
Reward for driver
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif invited Sher Ahmad alias Faisal Baloch, an oil tanker driver belonging to Balochistan, to the PM House on Wednesday to acknowledge his bravery.
Sher Ahmad drove his burning oil tanker out of a residential area in an attempt to save human lives.
Mr Sharif praised the driver for saving lives without caring for his own life and nominated him for the conferment of Tamgha-i-Shujaat.
“It s a pleasure to meet and nominate Faisal Baloch for the conferment of Tamgha-i-Shujaat for his act of bravery.
“A hero in real life, he risked his own life to save that of countless others. I commend his selfless act of courage,” Shehbaz Sharif said in a tweet.
Published in Dawn, June 16th, 2022
