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Business Recorder
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Business Recorder
MPs to call upon individuals involved in allocating Hajj quota to private operators
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel has decided to call upon all the relevant individuals involved in the process of allocating Hajj quota to private operators including an ex-federal minister. The Sub-Committee of Senate Standing Committee on Religious Affairs and Inter-Faith Harmony which met here on Friday under the chairmanship of Senator Aon Abbas Buppi also directed the Ministry of Religious Affairs to provide all the correspondence that took place in the ministry since August 2024. The meeting discussed the matters pertaining to reduction of the private Hajj quota and examining the procedure followed in awarding the tender of Mashaer Services to M/s Al-Rajhi. The meeting was attended by Senator Bushra Anjum Butt, Danesh Kumar and secretary for Ministry of Religious Affairs. Senator Buppi, while convening the meeting, finalise the TORs for the sub-committee focuses on the reasons that restricts 67,000 Hujjaj from performing Hajj. The sub-committee will investigate the factors involved in blocking the IDs and how 50 million Riyals belonging to private Hajj operators have been transferred to DG Hajj Accounts. Senator Buppi inquired that creating cluster of Munazim, merging them from 900 Munazim to 41, and how the ministry has taken such task which originally fell under the umbrella of HOPE. The sub-committee also directed the ministry to provide a copy of minutes of the committee constituted to award the tender of Mashaer Services to Al-Rajhi. Senator Buppi also directed to provide copy of letter written by ex-federal minister, disagreeing with the process, along with the dissenting notes of other four members of the committee. The sub-committee also finalised the timeline for the disposal of the matter, stating that the sub-committee will commence the process once the Hajj process is completed. Copyright Business Recorder, 2025
Express Tribune
09-03-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
PTI's Buppi dismisses Chinkara case as farcical
PTI Senator Aon Abbas Buppi on Saturday claimed that authorities have implicated him in a false case of hunting five Chinkara gazelles, which, he claimed, are non-existent in Pakistan. "There is not a single Chinkara in Pakistan, yet five such cases have been registered against me," Buppi said while talking to reporters after attending a Senate session. "The case registered against me is entirely based on lies," he added. The Punjab Wildlife Department registered a case against Buppi and nine others for illegal hunting of Chinkara. The Bahawalpur police later arrested the PTI senator. Buppi told reporters that he was told that Ejaz Chaudhary would also be brought to the upper house but the order of the Senate chairman was once again ignored. The senator said during his incarceration he had not endured a fraction of the suffering that Ejaz Chaudhary was enduring. He said it would weigh heavily on his conscience if Chaudhary were in jail and he were in the Federal Lodges. "I made a principled decision and requested the Senate chairman to cancel my production orders. Senator Ejaz Chaudhry is like a friend, mentor, and a father to me," he added. He said he requested the Senate chairman to send him to Bahawalpur so that he could face the case. "At the police station where a charge sheet was filed against me, a case of wheat theft was registered against PTI leader Shahryar Afridi. It is the price of loyalty to [PTI founder] Imran Khanprice that has been paid and will continue to be paid," he concluded.
