Day: June 27, 2022

MIRPURKHAS: Khushhali Microfinance Bank partnered with the Sindh Graduates Association (SGA) has launched a skills-development program for women in Mirpurkhas.

According to the bank’s information on Monday, the training program includes a complete tailoring-course for women as well as informative sessions on financial literacy to impart knowledge and understanding of financial concepts along with banking products and services.

The program aims to empower the women and enable them to earn sustainable livelihoods, raise their standards of living, and understand the value of saving money and investing in their family’s future.

The participating women will be taught to realize their irrefutable role in the well-being of their household, in case their families are faced with poverty. If women are empowered, they can achieve a greater degree of self-reliance and economic prosperity within their families, while raising their children with a better quality of life.

The President of Khushhali Microfinance Bank, Ghalib Nishtar, stated: Our Skill-based training programs are a progressive step towards empowering underprivileged women, inspiring them to be independent and generate sufficient incomes to support their families.

Through these series of training programs, Khushhali Microfinance Bank is making direct contributions towards the achievement of United Nations’s Sustainable Development Goals #4 and #8.

HARNAI: Two coal miners sustained injuries in a land slide in a coal mine in Tehsil Shahrug of district Harnai in Balochistan province on Monday.

According to rescue sources, the landslide happened in PMDC lease area of Shahrug, resultantly, two miners sustained injuries. The trapped persons were retrieved from the debris of collapsed mine by the staff of the office of Inspector Mines, Shahrug, PMDC Shahrug and coal miners of the collapsed mine.

The injured were identified as Shah Namaz and Muhammad Tahir, residents of Swat. They were shifted to a Shahrug hospital for treatment and were later referred to Quetta for further treatment.

GUJRAT: Four armed men looted Rs1 million cash from a general store in Gujrat on Monday.

According to a report, four dacoits entered a general store on Sargodha Road in Gujrat, looted Rs1 million cash and fled to unknown destination. On information, police rushed to the scene and started search for the bandits looting general store.

Locals of the area expressed their concerns over the rising dacoity incident in Gujrat, saying that the police and other authorities were failed to control crime. They also came down hard on the authorities concerned for their negligence to maintain law and order, adding that their indifference to control crime had turned the district a hub of criminal activities.

LARKANA: Sindh Assembly speaker and acting governor Agha Siraj Durrani said Monday that local bodies election is a love affair which is held among the various communities but he saw a hate among the communities yesterday (Sunday) which is very astonishing for which he expressed his grief.

He was talking to newsmen at Garhi Khuda Bux where he reached along with his supporters to offer prayers at the graves of Bhutto leaders after winning LB polls in Garhi Yasin Taluka of Shikarpur district.

Durrani said that the administration provided its own security but in some areas, they failed to provide security because the area was too large and security would have been better, had the police been called from other districts. He was referring to the wrath of the people he faced in Fateh Muhammad Jaffery village near Garhi Yasin video of which had also become viral on social media.

He said that NAB was trying to keep him in jail but he was still under custody. He said that the NAB administration had become so dirty that even its officers will not be seen in the coming days, Inshallah, because they had committed so much highhandedness to the people that they would escape.

He said they were watching the new NAB law that had been passed. Durrani announced that he would soon file a case against the ‘Thug of Delhi’ who filed a false petition against him. NAB’s newly created law had been returned by the President of Pakistan, which would itself become a law after 14 days for which a notification had also been issued, the provincial assembly Speaker added. He said that three years had passed but the NAB could not prove anything against him.

GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Finance Minister Javed Manwa unveiled the annual budget for the fiscal year 2022-23 with a total outlay of over Rs119.3 billion in the assembly on Monday.

The deficit has been shown in the proposed annual budget is Rs9 billion. The budget proposed allocation of Rs10 billion for wheat subsidy and Rs61.4 billion for ongoing expenditures while Rs47.8 billion have been allocated for new development schemes. Finance Minister Javed Manwa announced a 15 per cent increase in salaries of all government employees and also proposed an ad hoc relief allowance for them.

GB Finance Minister Javed also announced 15 per cent DRA of the basic salary for the government employees who do not receive any special allowance. For the Grade 20 officers in Gilgit Baltistan, the finance minister also recommended paying 25 per cent DRA of the basic salary from 2017 to July 1, 2022.