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(By: Raja Muhammad Ayub, Bureau Chief, Mandi Bahauddin)
Advisor Provincial Ombudsman Punjab Regional Office Mandi Bahauddin Ms. Asifa Gul resolved the issue of a widow’s pension case after 13 years. The Accounts Office issued a check of Rs. 26.10 lakh in the name of the widow. The woman thanked the Provincial Ombudsman on receiving the check. According to the details, Muhammad Nawaz, SST teacher of Government Secondary School Mangat, had passed away in 2012. Shaista Nawaz, the widow of the late teacher Muhammad Nawaz, applied to the relevant department to obtain pension. The widow kept going to different offices for 13 years to obtain pension, but no one solved this problem of the widow. The widow has four daughters, there is no one to earn money in the house and the family was on the verge of starvation. A month ago, Shaista Nawaz, the widow of the late teacher Muhammad Nawaz, appeared before the Advisor Provincial Ombudsman Punjab Regional Office Mandi Bahauddin Asifa Gul and with tearful eyes narrated all the circumstances and incidents and informed her about the repeated rounds of offices by the officials of government departments for 13 years. Upon which, the Advisor Provincial Ombudsman Ms. Asifa Gul took the widow’s pension case very seriously and sent a detailed report about this pension case to the Provincial Ombudsman Punjab Ms. Ayesha Hamid. On which the Provincial Ombudsman Punjab, Ms. Ayesha Hamid, took strict notice and issued orders to the concerned department to immediately resolve the widow’s pension case. In light of the orders of the Provincial Ombudsman Punjab, the District Accounts Office Mandi Bahauddin has issued a check of Rs. 26,10,000 to the widow Shaista Nawaz, on which Shaista Nawaz has thanked the Provincial Ombudsman Punjab, Ms. Ayesha Hamid and the Advisor Regional Office Mandi Bahauddin, Ms. Aseefa Gul for resolving the 13-year-old pension case. On this occasion, Advisor Provincial Ombudsman Ms. Aseefa Gul, while talking to the Bureau Chief of Daily Samaa Lahore and PTV News Mandi Bahauddin correspondent Raja Muhammad Ayub, said that there is no fee of any kind for filing a complaint in the offices of the Ombudsman Punjab, nor does the complainant need a lawyer. The people should file their complaints without fear and they will be fully attended to.