LAHORE: The Punjab Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control (ET&NC) Department has given conditional approval to hotels to open liquor permit rooms, Pakistan Today learnt on Saturday. According to details, the permit rooms in Punjab hotels were opened on Thursday and will be allowed to open only for two days next week — Monday and Tuesday — before being shut down for the annual audit and renewal of liquor permits. The permit rooms in Punjab were closed on March 23 after the government imposed a lockdown in wake of surge in Covid-19 cases. Talking to Pakistan Today, ETO Lahore Safeer Abbas Jappa said that permit rooms were opened for one day only on Thursday. “The permit rooms will again open only for two days on Monday and Tuesday after which they will be shut down for 10-15 days on account of annual audits and renewal of permits,” he added.

Source: Pakistan Today June 27, 2020 15:25 UTC