By Adnan Zainul Abideen The Aga Khan Education Service (AKES), aided by its vast network of schools, has been playing a significant role in the provision of quality education to the youth – boys and girls – of the region from grassroots level. AKES schools have been imparting early childhood development (ECD) to the higher […]
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig The PTI government in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa has completed the Swat Motorway up to a point but no further measures are in sight for there has been opposition from certain quarters against the use of agricultural lands in the Swat valley. There is a group who has taken it as their duty
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan on Tuesday announced to regularize all ad hoc teachers, numbering about 58,000, from the date of their initial appointment. He made the announcement while meeting a delegation of the Young Teachers Association. He said the seniority of all regularized teachers would remain intact from the same date whereas
CHITRAL: Around 100 village council secretaries in Chitral on Monday went on a pen-down strike, demanding upgradation of their jobs and other facilities. The village council secretaries earlier held a protest rally and gathered outside the local press club. The protesters were carrying placards and banners and chanting slogans. Later, speaking at a press conference,
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CHITRAL: A senior official here called upon the local people to supplement their efforts to turn Chitral into a greenbelt and avert the effects of climate change in the region. Speaking at function held at the residence of Shahzada Maj (r) Shamsuddin in Gumbas Qillah in Broze, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Director General Soil and Water Conservation
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Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig Funds allocated to public representatives are divided and contractors bid among themselves for many of the schemes. The present system is too poor and unreliable. The e-bidding and the below system introduced by the present government is one of the disputable methods. Under this system, the contractors get a project by
ISLAMABAD: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday called on the government to facilitate his one-time political adversary and former military ruler Pervez Musharraf\’s return to Pakistan from UAE on account of his poor health, dawn.com reported. \”I have no personal enmity or animosity towards Pervez Musharraf. I don\’t want anyone else to suffer the traumas
CHITRAL: People of Golen valley in Lower Chitral have raised objections to issuance of leases for exploration of mineral resources and permission to outsiders for grazing goats in the area. The objections and complaints were raised by the locals during an open forum conducted by Deputy Commissioner Anwarul Haq. The locals said Golen valley had
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• 16pc pay, 15pc pension raise for government officials • 63,000 employees to be regularised • Rs185bn set aside for settled districts, Rs20bn for merged areas • Rs4bn to be spent on solarisation of over 11,000 mosques PESHAWAR: The PTI-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Monday set aside a record amount of Rs418 billion for development projects
ISLAMABAD: The government has earmarked over Rs2.484 billion under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP 2022-23) for 10 ongoing and five new schemes to ensure improved services in the aviation sector. According to the budgetary documents, Rs4 million have been set aside for the construction of barrack accommodation for ASF personnel along with a mess
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