Top Story : One-dish-law-to-be-implemented-strictly: Shahbaz

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday said that the one-dish law would be strictly implemented in the province. He was talking to journalists after the Walima ceremony of the son of a leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas, in Sialkot.

He said that millions of people in the province could not afford lavish expenditure on marriage ceremonies and had to mortgage their ancestral property for the marriage of their daughters and spend rest of their lives under heavy debts.

He said that the one-dish law would be strictly implemented in the interest of the poor so that they could be saved from heavy expenditure. Shahbaz added that austerity would be promoted in the province under the leadership of PML-N Quaid Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif. He said that Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas had set a good example by abiding by this law for which he should be congratulated.

Referring to the national situation and recent tension between India and Pakistan, the chief minister expressed the hope that the Indian leadership would adopt a sensible attitude and would not indulge in any such act which could jeopardize peace in South Asia.

He said that Pakistan was a peace-loving country and wanted harmony in the region, therefore, the Indian government should also act wisely and show restraint on the issue. He said that Pakistan was taking effective measures against extremists and militants.

He hoped that Pakistan and India would not go to war but added if a war was imposed on Pakistan the nation would stand shoulder to shoulder with the armed forces and give a befitting response to the Indian aggression.

PML leader and MNA Khawaja Muhammad Asif, MPAs Chaudhry Akhlaque Ahmad, Tahir Mehmood, Rana Muhammad Iqbal Harnah, former MPA Mansha Allah Butt, former MNA Iftikhar-ul-Hassan, Zahare Shah, District President PML-N Sialkot Adrees Ahmad Bajwa, Commissioner Gujranwala Division Khalid Masood Chaudhry and RPO Gujranwala Zulfiqar Ahmad Cheema were also present on the occasion.