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– It must hurt to break the law. Narcotics must still be criminal and it is a serious offence, says the Center Party’s deputy leader Anne Beathe Tvinnereim to NTB.

She has chaired the program committee in the party and presented a draft of the Center Party’s new policy on Thursday.

There it is established that the use, sale and storage of drugs shall continue to be prohibited. And that no narcotic substances should be decriminalized or legalized.

Progressive fines

The program committee also proposes to introduce the same scheme as with drink-driving to fine the use and possession of drugs, meaning that the size of the fine is calculated based on income.

– We believe that it is right that it should also be a deterrent for those with high incomes, says Tvinnereim.

Today, drink-driving can be punished with fines of up to 1.5 times gross monthly income.

– Drug use is a serious threat in society today, and we see that it is a growing problem. The Center Party has a very clear drug policy and wants strict penalties, says the deputy leader.

Will hit nightclubs

The party also proposes to punish nightclubs where drugs are used.

– The Center Party will strip pubs of their liquor licenses if drugs are repeatedly used there, the draft program says.

It also stipulates that the police must be able to use coercive measures against persons suspected of using and storing drugs, including minors.

– There has been a normalization of drugs in society as a result of the Solberg government’s proposals to make drug use impunity. The police must be given tools to uncover and investigate drug crime, it says.

The draft will now be discussed in the party. A final program will be adopted at the national meeting in Haugesund in March next year.

Gets slapped by the Liberals

Venstre’s Ingvild Thorsvik is not impressed with the direction the Center Party is taking with its new proposals for drug policy.

– The Center Party must stop lying, and rather agree to a policy that saves lives. We can only get that by implementing a drug reform, she says.

She calls the politics of the Center Party ignorant.

– The Center Party and party leader Vedum blame a drug reform that never came to fruition, when it is their own drug policy that is being pursued today, and which leads to Norway being at the top of Europe in terms of overdoses. It is Vedum that is to blame for today’s failed drug policy, not the Liberal Party and the Solberg government, she says.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has sought the summary of annual development plan from the federal and provincial governments.

In a case related to the issue of development funds in the federation and the four provinces, the court also sought details of block allocation schemes or umbrella schemes.

The court ordered that annual development plan summary of the recently approved budget should be submitted under the signature of the finance secretary or the chief secretary.

During the hearing, Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Isa remarked that we are hearing the case in the context of protecting public money, governments must spend money but there should be transparency. .

Justice Qazi Faiz Isa said that Zia-ul-Haq started the tradition of giving money to MLAs and senators in the name of development funds.

Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan said that there are already many problems, we will not allow public funds to be wasted.

On this, the Chief Justice of Pakistan remarked that plans must be made, but everything should be under the constitution, if governments change, the plans are suspended, development plans should not be under individual personalities, we are not concerned with what the plans are. Going, there should be transparency.

Later, the Supreme Court adjourned the hearing of the case for 3 weeks.

Justice Shahid Karim of Lahore High Court heard the petition of citizen Haroon Farooq, Commissioner Lahore Muhammad Ali Randwa appeared in the court.

The court remarked that now it seems we are going on the right path, on which the Commissioner Lahore said that action will be taken against smoke-emitting vehicles indiscriminately.

Justice Shahid Karim said that the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) is sleeping, we will wake them up.

Commissioner Lahore Muhammad Ali Randwa told the court that we have also instructed the traffic police to stop the smog spreading vehicles.

If a vehicle is causing smog, take pictures of it, the court remarked, adding that from next year we will have to take major steps early, these two months are very important.

Commissioner Lahore said that we have taken many steps for the trend of cycling, we have talked to the Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency (TEPA) to build a track for cycling, we will try to ensure that people cycling. Get discounts on hotels.

Lahore High Court said that you should involve the private sector in this, we can resume cycling in these 5, 6 months.

Commissioner Lahore told the court that we will now advertise in the newspaper that cutting trees is a crime.

Later, the court ordered the sealing of the polluting factors.

The court ordered that factories emitting black smoke be sealed, and not de-sealed until they give an affidavit.

The court said after giving an affidavit that if there is a repeat violation, the factory will be demolished.

The court adjourned the hearing of the case till November 7.

It should be noted that on November 1, the Lahore High Court had said that black smoke emitting factories should be sealed and they should not be de-sealed and all schools and colleges were directed to inform the children of black smoke emitting factories.

Justice Shahid Karim expressed concern over the smog situation and said that the government is responsible for the smog situation.

On the same day, the caretaker government of Punjab imposed a smog emergency across the province by making masks mandatory for students in all government and private schools for a month to deal with smog in the province.

Mohsin Naqvi said that every measure that is humanly possible will be taken to reduce smog, all relevant departments should work actively for anti-smog.