Categories: Top Stories

Eight PML-N lawmakers resign

F.P. Report

LAHORE: Eight lawmakers belonging to the PML-N, including five MNAs and three MPAs, announced to quit the part and launch a movement for a separate province for Southern Punjab.

Addressing a press conference on Monday, MNA Khusro Bakhtiar said that their press conference is the announcement of creation of a new province.

“Punjab comprises of 52 percent of population,” he added.

He said that there were 14 provinces in India and now they had risen to 29.

Tahir said that a separate province should be created for to end backwardness in South Punjab.

Rana Qasim Noon, Tahir Iqbal, Tahir Bashir Cheema, Raza Hayat Hiraj, Sardar Ashiq Gopang and MPA Amir Talal Gopang also left the party.

 

The Frontier Post

Recent Posts

Russia puts Ukraine’s Zelensky on wanted list, TASS reports

MOSCOW (Reuters): Russia has opened a criminal case against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and put…

19 mins ago

Afghan diplomat caught smuggling 25 kg gold at Mumbai airport: Report

Monitoring Desk MUMBAI: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) caught the consul general of the…

22 mins ago

Hamas ‘only thing standing between the people of Gaza and a ceasefire’: Blinken

WASHINGTON (AFP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Hamas was the only holdup to…

1 hour ago

India not xenophobic, FM says after Biden remark

NEW DELHI (AFP): India is not xenophobic, the country's foreign minister has insisted, after comments…

1 hour ago

Hamas negotiators arrive in Egypt for Gaza truce talks: media

GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories/CAIRO (AFP): A Hamas delegation arrived Saturday in Egypt for the latest…

1 hour ago

Russia shoots down four US longe-range missiles

MOSCOW (AFP): Russia on Saturday said it had downed four US-made ATACMS long-range missiles recently…

1 hour ago

This website uses cookies.