PESHAWAR: The provincial ministers, deputy commissioners and tehsil municipal administrators have violated the rules by placing advertisements in newspapers in connection with Pakistan Day, according to sources.
The advertisements also carried the portraits of the ministers and officers concerned. The Monday’s local newspapers carried at least 23 advertisements issued by the provincial ministers and deputy commissioners of Swat, Nowshera and Buner districts wherein they felicitated the nation on Pakistan Day.
The advertisements were totally illegal as the provincial information department didn’t issue those and the government wouldn’t pay the newspapers, which published the same, sources said.
Information Minister Mushtaq Ghani said that his department didn’t issues the advertisement to the newspapers because it was not government policy to seek publicity. Those were in violation of rules, he added.
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