{"id":70895,"date":"2018-07-08T18:39:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T13:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=70895"},"modified":"2018-07-08T18:39:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T13:39:29","slug":"minister-calls-for-wisdom-to-tackle-water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=70895","title":{"rendered":"Minister calls for wisdom to tackle water crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lahore July 8 (TNS): Caretaker Information Minister Syed Ali Zafar has stressed to conserve and utilize irrigation water wisely to tackle the water crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; program at Lahore Press Club in Lahore on Sunday, he said that most of our water is wasted into sea every year.<\/p>\n<p>Information Minister said the caretaker government will prepare a working paper with proposals for tackling the water issue and this plan will be presented to the incoming government.<\/p>\n<p>He urged to allocate more funds in the budget for building dams.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to a question, Syed Ali Zafar said that law is equal for all and implementing courts verdicts is responsibility of the Caretaker Government.<\/p>\n<p>He said all legal requirements will be fulfilled regarding the arrest of former Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz on their return.<\/p>\n<p>To another question, he said general elections will be held in time on 25th of this month, despite the recent verdict against Nawaz Sharif.<\/p>\n<p>To a question, he said the Caretaker Government will continue to share the Code of Conduct of Election Commission of Pakistan for elections with media.<\/p>\n<p>He said that foreign media should also see the transparent holding of upcoming general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Answering a question,Syed Ali Zafar said that print media<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Lahore July 8 (TNS): Caretaker Information Minister Syed Ali Zafar has stressed to conserve and utilize irrigation water wisely to tackle the water crisis. Addressing a &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; program at Lahore Press Club in Lahore on Sunday, he said that most of our water is wasted into sea every year. Information Minister said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70897,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70895\/revisions\/70897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}