Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on June 3 directed the Balochistan
Chief Secretary and Home
Secretary to take steps
to improve law and order
situation in the province,
reports Daily Times.
Talking to a delegation
of Hazara community at
Governor’s House, the
Prime Minister said that
a concerted strategy must
be evolved to ensure peace
in Balochistan. He said
any leniency on part of
law enforcers would not
be tolerated.
Separately, Gilani said he had directed the Balochistan Chief
Secretary to identify
35,000 graduates of Balochistan
to be given jobs by the
Government. “Fifteen hundred
jobs in Federal Levies
Force have already been
provided to the people
of Balochistan,” he said
while talking to a PPP
Balochistan delegation
led by its provincial
president Mir Sadiq Umrani.
“1,500 more jobs will
be created in the Federal
Levies Force in Balochistan
this year,” Gilani said,
adding that the Government
would further recruit
10,000 youth in different
departments. Out of them,
5,000 would be sent abroad
to acquire required skills
in their respective fields,
the Prime Minister added.
He said that under the
18th Amendment,
provisional autonomy had
been granted to provinces
in order to empower them.
He said that under the
7th National Finance Commission
Award (NFC), the share
of Balochistan had reached
PKR 120 billion as compared
to PKR 40 billion in the
past. He said the Government
had allocated PKR Six
billion to provide scholarships
to the youth of Balochistan. |
