Senate Body Pays Tribute To Helicopter Crash Martyrs.

ISLAMABAD -- The Senate Standing Committee on Defence on Friday unanimously passed a resolution to pay tribute to the martyrs of helicopter crash. Lt-Gen Sarfraz Ali, Commander 12 Corps Quetta; Maj-General Amjad Haneef; Brigadier Mohammad Khalid; Maj Saeed Ahmad; Maj Muhammad Talha Manan and Naik Mudassar Fayyaz had lost their lives in the line of duty for national cause as a result of a tragic helicopter crash while monitoring the flood relief operation in Balochistan on 1st August. The committee met under the chairmanship of Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed here at the Parliament House. The committee offered Fateha and expressed deepest sympathies and heartfelt condolence to the bereaved families of the martyrs.

The committee received a comprehensive briefing on the overall function of the department of Land and Cantonments with special emphasis on budgetary allocation utilization, PSDP projects, audit paras, issues, challenges and a way forward. The committee was also...