Tag: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Illegal mining continues in KP despite PTI govt claims to the...
PESHAWAR: Illegal digging and mining continues in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa despite Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government’s claims to the contrary, according to a report by a...
KP govt’s Swat beautification project underway
ISLAMABAD: The Swat revamping and beautification project under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is underway to develop the favoured tourist spot ob both domestic and international...
Switzerland to provide $5.3m to KP govt for water reforms
ISLAMABAD: The Embassy of Switzerland in Pakistan signed two memorandums of understanding with the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in Peshawar on Tuesday, to improve...
Pakistan takes notice of pro-Indian UNHCR syllabus in Afghan refugee schools
ISLAMABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government took exception of the discreet inclusion of pro-India and anti-Pakistan material in the textbooks of Afghan refugee schools in the...
Seminaries under education dept step towards national integration, says Imran
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan said on Wednesday that placing of seminaries under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) education department will be a...
KP education department to supervise seminaries: report
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government led by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) placed seminaries in the province under the supervision of the elementary and secondary...
CPJ calls on Pakistani security forces to release detained KP journalist
NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on Pakistani security forces to immediately release journalist Khalil Afridi, who police are holding without...
5.1 earthquake jolts parts of KP, Khyber Agency
PESHAWAR: An earthquake of high intensity jolted various districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Khyber Agency on Saturday, but no causality or property loss...
‘Balochistan, Pakhtunkhwa have no TB diagnosis vans’
ISLAMABAD: Out of 95 mobile TB diagnosis vans, not a single vehicle is operating in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and in Balochistan, while 70 such vans are...
Anti-polio campaign to be launched in KP from 18th
PESHAWAR: As many as 5.620 million children will be vaccinated in the upcoming anti-polio campaign which starts on September 18 across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
This was disclosed...
‘FATA is deprived of basic political, economic, social rights’
The federal cabinet in its meeting on Thursday is likely to be consented on mainstreaming of FATA instead of its merger with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,...
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa sees spike in honour killings
23 incidents reported since Jan 1
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has seen a sharp rise in honour killings in the ongoing year, in the...
Funds ‘shortage’ led PM to ‘delay’ FATA’s merger
--Finance Ministry advises Nawaz Sharif to avoid top cabinet agenda for ‘some time’
Reluctance by the Ministry of Finance for the release of approximately Rs...
Ban on hunting of the Houbara Bustard
The chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has banned the hunting of the Houbara Bustard.
The CM directed this order in a statement issued to...
Sehat Insaf Card being distributed among KP union councils, says Khattak
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has revealed here today that Sehat Insaf Card is being distributed among one thousand union councils throughout the...
Negligence causes damage to `Billion Tree’ project in KP
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's `Billion Tree Tsunami' project has been marred by the local authorities' negligence as thousands of tree-saplings planted in Peshawar's Regi Lalma have...
CM Khattak urges govt to make western route part of CPEC,...
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak said Thursday if the western route is not part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) it will be...