Daily Times

Punjab Information Minister Azma Bukhari said on Sunday that all roads and most markets were open in Lahore, and normal life was going on, while markets are also open in most places in Lahore.

Azma Bokhari visited different areas of the city including Laxmi Chowk, Shimla Pahari, Haji Camp, Railway Station, Lorry Adda, Minar-e-Pakistan and Azadi flyover. The minister also visited the Walled City, The Mall road, GPO Chowk and Charing Cross chowk. She reviewed the traffic movement and law and order situation in Lahore.

Apparently referring to the PTI, Azma Bukhari said the people of Punjab had rejected the ‘chaos’ party. “I have not seen a single revolutionary of the PTI in Lahore; the leadership of the PTI was also found nowhere in Lahore,” she said.

Separately, Punjab Information Minister Azma Bukhari has said that situation in Kurram, Bannu and Bara is sensitive, but unfortunately Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur is busy in making preparations to run over the federation.

In a statement issued here on Sunday, she said that today 12 people were killed in firing incident in Kurram, adding that during last three days in various clash incidents, 75 person were killed and 80 others injured.

Azma Bukhari said that the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police and other law-enforcement agencies were rendering sacrifices to maintain law and order.

She further said that KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur should focus on welfare of people instead of acting as puppet of Adiala Jail’s prisoner.