CM takes notice of diesel shortage
A news report had suggested that stocks of petrol and diesel had gone below strategic levels. PHOTO: FILE
Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Hamza Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday took a strict notice of diesel shortage in some cities of the province and ordered the administration to take indiscriminate action against hoarders. He directed the officials to take all possible steps to ensure availability of diesel and ordered the administration to regularly check petrol pumps in their respective districts.
The chief minister issued these directions while chairing a meeting at CM's office to ascertain the reasons behind the shortage of diesel. The chief minister also inaugurated a Quran and Hadith centre established in the Kot Lakhpat Central Jail.
During the visit, he announced 60-day remission for prisoners and increase in the salaries of the wardens to the level of police constables. Chairing a meeting at his office, he said getting flour at subsidised rates was the right of the people. The CM ordered strict surveillance of the entry and exit points of the province to stop illegal transportation of wheat and flour. As per a handout, Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz also reviewed the law and order situation in the province and security arrangements of foreigners, especially Chinese nationals.
Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz said that the sense of deprivation rose in South Punjab during the regime of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He said this at a press conference in Bahawalpur on Sunday. Hamza said that he had been thankful to his leader, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, who assigned him the task of assuming the office of Punjab chief minister “to serve the people”.
He said that he in his capacity as the former leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly had paid four visits to South Punjab while as the chief minister it was his first visit to Bahawalpur.