Level playing field assured for all parties

Cabinet decides to dissolve BoG of all MTI hospitals

PESHAWAR:

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Caretaker Minister for Information and Public Relations, Auqaf, Hajj, Religious and Minority Affairs Barrister Feroz Jamal Shah Kaka Khel while informing media regarding the decisions made in the second meeting of the caretaker provincial cabinet held yesterday, said that the cabinet’s mandate is to provide a level playing field to all political parties for fair and transparent elections and to support the Election Commission.

Our mandate also includes identification and elimination of political appointments in public institutions, he said.

The provincial government will give Ramazan package to the deserving people of the province at a cost of Rs19 billion despite limited resources, he maintained, saying that the Chief Minister Azam Khan has formed a cabinet committee to devise a procedure for immediate delivery of zakat funds to the beneficiaries.

The number of posts of law officers posted in the advocate general’s office has been reduced from 61 to 43, he informed.

Barrister Shah said that a cabinet committee has been formed regarding the dissolution of the Board of Governors of 10 MTI hospitals and this dissolution will be done in two stages and will be completed within two weeks.

He observed that the poor and deserving citizens of the province are being given Ramazan package by the provincial government. Beneficiaries registered in this targeted package will be provided 2 to 3 bags of flour free of cost.

The minister said that there are funds for zakat, but there are no zakat councils since last year. The provincial government has formed a cabinet committee in this regard to provide relief to the poor and deserving citizens as much as possible before Ramazan.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 18^th, 2023.