Punjab Youth Festival: ‘Govt made false claims of records’

PPP MPA Shaukat Basra says no GBWR representative had witnessed the activities.

LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party MPA Shaukat Basra has filed a petition in the Lahore High Court, stating that the Punjab had made false claims that new records had been set and would be acknowledged in the Guinness Book of World Records during the Punjab Youth Festival.

Basra said this had damaged Pakistan’s reputation across the world. He said the national exchequer had also suffered. Basra alleged that contrary to the government’s claims, there was no contract between the administration of the Guinness Book of World Records and the government.

He said no GBWR representative had witnessed the activities. He asked the court to direct the government to provide records of the spending on festival activities.

He also asked the court to stop the festival until the petition had been disposed of.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 12^th, 2014.