Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi participated in the 13th Annual Programme of Collective Marriages under the auspices of Baba Ji Khalid Mahmood Makki Madni in Daska on Wednesday. On this occasion, marriages of 30 couples were arranged. He congratulated Baba Ji Khalid on this noble work, paid him tributes on other welfare works, presented salami to the new couples and bid them farewell with good wishes. On this occasion, Member of Provincial Assembly Dr Hissan Khalid, Bao Rizwan, Usman Khalid, Daska Municipality Chairman Khawaja Atif Razapashi, Maqsood Sulria, Khalid Mahmood Cheema, Dr Zain Bhatti, Salim Baryar, Tanveer Mughal and other political and social personalities were present in large number. Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said that Baba Ji is engaged in doing works of peoples’ welfare for many decades, this is the real service to the humanity, during our five years tenure maximum welfare works done in the Punjab. He said that rules are there in the national and other provincial assemblies for issuing production orders, but after studying all Rules of Procedure of the Punjab Assembly, “I have come to know that former Punjab chief minister Shehbaz Sharif had allowed amendment in the rules for production of any arrested MPA in the Punjab Assembly. During tenure of former speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan, when MPAs were arrested, he had referred the matter to the advocate general”. He said Prime Minister Imran Khan is working hard day and night for putting the country on the path of progress and development. “In this noble work we are with him,” he said. Responding to a question regarding Journalists Colony in Daska, he said that former CM Shehbaz Sharif for 10 years had not let work be done on this. Now it will be examined and appropriate line of action will be evolved. Published in Daily Times, December 13th 2018.