Extension of RTI Act to NMDs bring change: CIC

PESHAWAR:Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Commission (KPIC) Farah Hamid Khan on Tuesday said that extension of the RTI Act to the newly merged districts (NMDs) was an admirable step that would lead to a big social change and political development in the right direction. She said that due to merger of the erstwhile […]

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Photo exhibition concludes at PUCAR

SARGODHA: A two-day photo exhibition on “Pakistan Movement and Its Purposes” concluded at the Punjab Council of Arts (PUCAR) here on Tuesday. The event was organised in collaboration with the Nazaria Pakistan Trust Lahore. The photographs displayed at the exhibition highlighted speeches and events of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal and other […]

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Livestock trains 7,290 farmers, students

FAISALABAD:An awareness campaign for livestock farmers and students was ongoing across the division in rural areas through mobile training buses of the livestock department. Director Livestock Dr Haider Ali said that livestock staff in mobile training buses visited rural areas and imparted training to farmers as well as students through documentaries and lectures. The training […]

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PCAA’s scope of improving air quality of Peshawar expanding scope to other districts of KP

PESHAWAR:A meeting of Peshawar Clean Air Alliance (PCAA), an amalgam of civil society activists, academia, researchers, environmentalists, health experts, media and policy makers, was apprised that the initiative taken by them around one and a half year earlier for improving air quality of provincial metropolis is expanding its scope to other districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. […]

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Medicines worth over Rs 15 million being dispatched to flood hit areas, says Patel

ISLAMABAD:Minister for National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination Abdul Qadir Patel on Tuesday said that the necessary medicines valuing over Rs 15 million, and other relief items including 0.6 million medicated mosquito nets were being dispatched to flood hit areas of Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab within the next few days. Talking to media persons, he […]

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Threatening remarks about judge: Imran Khan served show-cause notice

ISLAMABAD:The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday served a show-cause notice to Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf’s (PTI) Chief Imran Khan and summoned him on August 31, in contempt of court case pertaining his threatening remarks about additional session judge Zeba Chaudhry. A larger bench comprising Justice Mohsin Akhter Kayani, Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice […]

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Govt constructs 150 schools in Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber

PESHAWAR:The government has completed more than 150 schools including primary and high schools in Bajaur, Mohmand and Khyber tribal districts to spread the rays of education there. Sources in KP education department officials told reporter that these completed schools include schools affected by terrorism and militancy in the past in these districts. To provide quality […]

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UN chief calls for dialogue, cooperation as ‘eternal tools of peace’

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for recommitment to “dialogue, diplomacy and mutual trust” in a world confronted with many challenges, describing them as “the eternal tools of peace”. “Our collective security demands that we seize every moment to forge a common understanding of the threats and challenges before us — and, most importantly, to […]

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