Lahore: The Punjab Cabinet has approved three mega projects including Apni Chhat Apna Ghar, the Chief Minister Green Tractor program and the Children's Heart Surgery Program. 

The approval was accorded during the 15th meeting of the provincial cabinet under the chair of Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif in Lahore today.  

Under Apni Chhat Apna Gharj program, a loan of one point five million rupees will be granted to homeless people for the construction of their house. 

The meeting also approved the distribution of nine thousand five hundred tractors under the Green Tractor Program.

Under the Chief Minister's Children's Heart Surgery Program, twelve thousand pending heart surgeries of children will be conducted.

Jerusalem (AFP): Israel announced the expansion of its military aims on Tuesday, widening its nearly year-long offensive against Hamas in Gaza to focus on Hezbollah along its northern border with Lebanon.

“The political-security cabinet updated the goals of the war this evening, so that they include the following section: the safe return of the residents of the north to their homes,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.

Not formally declared as a war, the exchanges of fire between Israeli troops and Hezbollah have killed hundreds, mostly fighters, in Lebanon, and dozens of civilians and soldiers on the Israeli side. Hezbollah claimed a dozen attacks on Israeli positions on Monday and three more on Tuesday.

The Israeli announcement came a day after Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said “military action” was the “only way left to ensure the return of Israel’s northern communities”.

It also comes as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due back in the region this week to try to revive stalled ceasefire talks for Israel’s operation in Gaza.

Peshawar: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur termed the 26th constitutional amendment draft as an attack on democracy.

Criticizing the federal government's constitutional amendment draft, he said that those who call themselves democratic parties should be ‘ashamed’.

“Bringing such bills is a far-fetched thing. We conflict with the court. First, we will defeat them in parliament and then in the courts,” he said.

KP Cm said they will use all kinds of constitutional options for their legitimate rights.

“Passing such a bill is a far-fetched thing. In the future, no one will bother to present it,” the KP chief minister claimed.