PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has ordered suspension of 27 officials including senior officers, prison staff, paramilitary soldiers and policemen on charges of negligence during the Bannu jailbreak incident. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that the decision was taken in the light of findings of an [...]
ISLAMABAD: The 3-day Kalash Spring Festival started on Monday to mark the rituals practised by all the Kalasha people living in all the three Kalash valleys of Chitral. Tourism Corporation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (TCKP) is coordinating the festival to guide the local and foreign tourists for travelling and staying at Kalash valley, said an official [...]
ABBOTTABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said on Sunday that no new tax was expected in the upcoming provincial budget. Talking to the media after addressing a public meeting at Bannah area of Battagram, he said that a majority of people pay taxes in foreign countries and regard it as a national [...]
PESHAWAR: The US Consulate General announced on Thursday that it would provide scholarships to ‘100 economically disadvantaged’ students from Mansehra district to study English. The scholarship programme, made possible through an agreement with Hazara University, will provide students with 800 hours of intensive, after-school instructions and summer learning activities over a two-year period, a statement [...]
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Bill 2012, revoking subsequently the Local Government Ordinance 2001 and restoring old municipal corporation and municipal committees in the province. The local government system 2001 would be replaced with the new system soon after formal notification by the government subsequently Municipal Corporation [...]
SWABI: A two-member team nominated by the federal agriculture ministry has started compiling statements of growers for determining the actual cost of tobacco production and the assessment process would continue for 10 days in all tobacco growing districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Briefing media persons here on Saturday, Kashthkar Coordination Council (KCC) general secretary Liaquat Yusufzai [...]
PESHAWAR: In order to tackle the energy crisis in the province, the Khyber Pk cabinet Wednesday sanctioned two weekly holidays with an immediate effect. It also decided to contact the federal government for sending a total of 294 Frontier Constabulary (FC) platoons back to the province.Briefing media persons on the meeting, Information Minister Mian Iftikhar [...]
HARIPUR: After the devolution of Labour Ministry, under the 18th constitutional amendment, all provincial assemblies were empowered to enact legislations on labour-related issues. But in spite of these powers, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government is neither enacting new laws nor implementing the existing ones.From the accounts of hundreds of workers, a majority of whom serve in [...]
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Population Welfare, Salim Khan said that government has approved 70 MW hydel project at Lawi while work on two more power generation projects would start from this year to address the issues of energy crises in the province. He expressed these views in inauguration ceremony of newly constructed Government High [...]
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government made four senior officers including Commissioner Bannu Division Officer on Special Duty (OSD) and constituted a five-member commission for the inquiry of the incident of attack on Central Prison Bannu. Briefing the media persons alongwith Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Interior Secretary Azam Khan, spokesperson Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that [...]
