Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has announced that a Nawaz Sharif School of Eminence will open in Jhelum on 15 December, as she addressed a ceremony in the city to distribute Honhaar scholarships and laptops to students on Tuesday.

She also announced that green buses would start operating in Dina, Sohawa and Pind Dadan Khan in January. More than 100,000 scooters are to be given to students across Punjab, with training for recipients.

At the Jhelum ceremony, laptops were distributed among 115 students of the public university and 42 female students of the nursing college, while 109 students received Honhaar scholarships worth about Rs2.5 million.

Warning on corruption

Maryam said she would not spare any provincial minister if she received information about involvement in corruption or bribery. “Let me know if any minister has committed corruption or taken a bribe; I will not spare them,” she said.

She said projects worth trillions of rupees were under way in Punjab and challenged critics to identify even a single rupee of corruption in them.

Faisalabad assault case raised

The chief minister also spoke about a man in Faisalabad who entered a shop and beat a salesgirl so severely that she was horrified. She said she summoned the man to the police station and told the girl to slap him two or three times across the face, warning that no influential person could abuse the poor under her government.

She said 300 Nawaz Sharif Schools of Eminence were being established across Punjab, and cardiac catheterisation laboratories had opened in 25 small districts.

She added that loans had been provided for 250,000 homes under the Apni Chhat, Apna Ghar scheme in the past one and a half to two years, Pakistan Point reported.