Mobile phone services are set to be restored after a decade in South Waziristan Agency's Wana, political administration officials said on Saturday.
Tank, (Pakistan Point News - 5th May, 2018) : Mobile phone services are set to be restored after a decade in South Waziristan Agency's Wana, political administration officials said on Saturday. The officials said the decision to restore cellular services in Wana after a meeting with government institutions. "Within the next 10 to 12 days, cellular services will be restored in the area," sources in the political administration said. Tribal elders have demanded that cellular services be restored in other areas of the agency as well.
The tribal elders said they cannot contact their loved ones living in other parts of the country or abroad. Ten years ago, mobile phone services were suspended in South Waziristan Agency over security fears. Pakistan Army launched a strategic offensive military operation, Operation Rah-e-Nijat, against militants in South Waziristan Agency on June 19, 2009. Security forces on Friday under Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad recovered weapons and IEDs hidden underground in South Waziristan's area of Ladha Makeen, the military's media wing, Inter Services Public Relations, said.
RPG-7, rockets, rifles, pistol, grenade and anti-tank mines were recovered in the operation conducted on a tip-off. INP/LK/AJ ============= LHC moved to declare PML-N's sixth budget illegal LAHORE, May 05 (INP): A petition seeking to declare unlawful the presentation of the full-year Federal budget 2018-19 by the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) government in closing weeks of its five-year term was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday.
The petitioner has pleaded with the high court to strike down the budget for what he said being unlawful and unconstitutional. He argued that the PML-N government was not entitled to unveil a budget for a year at the fag end of its tenure and added that it went beyond its constitutional authority and mandate by presenting the budget 2018-19. Besides, he contended that a person who was not a member of the National Assembly presented the budget unconstitutionally.
The petitioner claimed the federal budget was based on mala fides and requested that it should be declared illegal. On April 27, the newly appointed Finance Minister Miftah Ismail presented the budget for financial year 2018-19 amid strong protest by the opposition parties. The opposition parties, mainly PPP and PTI, strongly opposed the presentation of the budget by the PML-N government, saying it didn't have the right to unveil the budget for a year. The government, however, insisted that it was entitled to present a full-year budget.
