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Rs1.2bn to be spent on tourist activities in merged districts

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will spend Rs1.2 billion in three years on organising festivals and tourist activities in the merged tribal districts despite the fact that neither any infrastructure exists there nor has any tourist spot been identified there. The newly-established Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cultural and Tourism Authority will sponsor the festivals, an international cycle […]

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How to incentivize tourism

Garam Chashma Diary Islamuddin Successive governments have been billing Pakistan as the most attractive place for tourism. However no concrete steps are in sight to promote tourism beyond rhetoric, in which, every government tends to excel. The passion with which Imran Khan emphasized tourism, to jump start our economy and earn the precious foreign exchange,

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Hunza sit-in called off on assurance to release prisoners

GILGIT: The six-day-long sit-in staged in Aliabad near Hunza was called off on Saturday after the Gilgit-Baltistan caretaker government assured the protesters of release of 14 political prisoners within one-and-a-half months. Thousands of protesters went to their homes after the end of the sit-in which was organised on the call of the Aseeran-i-Hunza Rihaee Committee,

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