Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Thursday said that the May 9 tragedy was a rebellion against Pakistan, the state and the Army Chief.

Speaking at a special meeting of the Federal Cabinet, Prime Minister stated: “May 9 was a dark day in the history of Pakistan. There were terrible attacks on the symbolic institutions of Pakistan's defense. The entire nation saw the heartbreaking scenes of the May 9 incident”.

He added that the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) government was trying to save Pakistan from default, maybe these attacks would not have happened if a puppet government had not been removed.

If the PDM government had not taken notice of the corruption, maybe the May 9 attacks would not have happened. The deterioration of foreign relations with foreign countries was brought to an extreme, continued to premier.

Shehbaz Sharif further said that May 9 was a day that separated two mindsets. There was a rebellion against Pakistan and state institutions. Foul language was used against its heroes and martyrs. Any constitutional country should not commit such serious crimes. We will remember our martyrs till the Day of Judgement.

He continued to say that the entire planning was done on May 9, the groups were told how to attack, a systematic program of rebellion was made, which they deny till date. It is a matter of distorting the facts through lies. Truth is truth and lies are lies, there is no example of bad language or abusive speech in the struggle of the Father of the Nation Quaid-e-Azam.

The Prime Minister further stated that many leaders faced difficulties, some raised slogans of long live Pakistan and some said that speaking even a word against Pakistan is unthinkable.

He said that all the faces have come in front of the public, these are the same people who talked about 35 punctures, when the secret was revealed, they had no place to hide their faces. These are the same people who put various tricks on the cypher and called it an American conspiracy. Pakistan's relations with other countries suffered a blow, today we are making collective efforts to mend the relations.

Sharif also added that the enemy tried to confuse Pakistan more than once. Today, anti-national propaganda is being done on social media, and institutions of Pakistan are being insulted through foreign funding. Poisonous propaganda is being done against Pakistan, letters were written to cut the economic aorta of Pakistan.

The Prime Minister said that May 9 was a sinister plan for the kingdom and dictatorship of a single person. Due to the prayers of millions of people of Pakistan, this plan could not succeed but was buried. 5the nation asks the burning question that despite the passage of a year, the criminals of May 9 could not be punished.

He stated that the evil plan of May 9 was a rebellion against Pakistan, the state, the Pakistan Army and the army chief. By the grace of Allah, this revolt died down. Holy Quran says do not call the martyrs dead, they are alive. Our beloveds were martyred.

Shehbaz Sharif said: “I am grateful to the Supreme Court, there are our pending cases of 2700 billion rupees in different courts. Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa himself spoke to me, and said that your institutions should come with preparation, your cases will be decided soon.

The Prime Minister further added that you all foiled the May 9 conspiracy, enemies in the guise of friends are trying to derail the country of Pakistan, and enemies in the guise of friends will fail. We are united for economic improvement. I believe everyone will try to shore up Pakistan's boat.

Islamabad: The federal government broke all records by borrowing Rs6 trillion from banks in 10 months.

According to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), the government has borrowed 5.96 trillion rupees (on cash basis) from the local banking sector in the first 10 months, i.e. from July 1, 2023 to 26th April 2024, which is 124% more than the loan of 2.66 trillion rupees during the same period last year.

The government repaid a net loan of Rs735 billion to the State Bank during this period. It is pertinent to mention that the government cannot borrow directly from the central bank under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mandate.

The loans taken from scheduled banks in the current financial year have already exceeded the Rs3.7 trillion loan taken in the entire financial year 2023.

Overall, the net debt of the public sector for budget support in the 10 months of FY2020-24 was Rs5 trillion, which was Rs.3.74 trillion in FY23.

Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan Thursday adjourned the hearing of the case of personal promotion on public development projects for two weeks.

According to the details, a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa conducted the hearing.

During the hearing, the four provincial governments, including the federal government, assured not to promote personal publicity on public projects and to implement the decision of the Supreme Court.

In 2023, the Supreme Court had given a decision not to advertise personally on development projects.

In this regard, the Supreme Court called for affidavits from the four provincial governments including the federal government.

CJP Qazi Faez Isa ordered that every province is united on the issue of personal publicity, there is no opposition in any province on the issue of personal publicity.

During the hearing, Qazi Faez Isa asked about the numbers of law officers in Sindh. To which the provincial government lawyer replied that there are 80 law officers in Sindh.

Chief Justice Qazi Faez said that there is a battalion of 80 law officers in Sindh, while there is no permanent law officer in Islamabad.

Provincial law officers told that there are 18 law officers in Balochistan, four in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 86 in Punjab.

Chief Justice of Pakistan stated that there are 86 law officers in Punjab, the province with the largest population, but why there are 80 in Sindh.

The lawyer of the Punjab government replied that the number of law officers in Punjab is being reduced from 86 to 66.

Qazi Faez added said that every law officer of Sindh is being paid Rs0.5 million per month as salary which makes it 40 million rupess which is suffered by the people of Sindh. We don't get better support from the law officers in court. They appear through video link but there is distortion in the call. We don't want to interfere in government affairs, but tell us what sin the poor people have committed. We want to see strengthened democracy. Why is there personal publicity on public money projects? Even the staunchest political opponents are on the same page on the issue of personal publicity on public projects.