Tag: Kp

KP Cabinet approves Budget 2011-12

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cabinet approved Budget 2011-12 in meeting presided by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti at the Cabinet Room of...

26 killed in violence in KP, adjacent tribal region

At least 26 people were killed and several others injured in three incidents of violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and adjacent tribal region. Eight security...

KP CM welcomes new housing schemes

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Chief Minister Ameer Haidar Khan Hoti has welcomed the new housing schemes in his province and has said that public-private sector...

Two deadly bombings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa claim 24 lives

At least 24 people were killed in Nowshera and Peshawar on Sunday as two separate bombings ripped through a bakery and a bazaar in...

KP doctors end strike

Provincial Doctors Association (PDA) Monday called off its strike after two weeks of protest on Monday. The doctors had been demanding perks equal to...

KP suffering 18 hours of power outages

The citizens of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Thursday come out on streets as prolonged and unannounced electricity outage extended to 18 hours in the...

KP APC slams repeated US interventions

Endorsing the unanimous resolution adopted by the joint session of parliament, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa all-parties conference on Sunday expressed severe resentment over what it called...

KP minister escapes assassination attempt

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agriculture Minister and senior leader of Awami National Party Arbab Mohammad Ayub Jan survived what seemed to be a botched attempt at...

KP students suffer as power outages increase

Much like other parts of the country, prolonged and unscheduled power outages have made the lives of people miserable in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and adjoining...

KP lawyers denounce Osama’s killing

Lawyers affiliated with Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamiat Ul Ulema Islam (F) have shown sever resentment over assassination of Al Qaeda Chief Osama Bin Laden and...

KP to establish TV channel, FM Radio

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information, Mian Iftikhar Hussein has said that the provincial government has decided to start its own TV channel and FM...

KP to exempt home-based businesses from taxation

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to move a bill in the provincial assembly to exempt widows, divorced women, special people and home-based businesses...

KP Assembly passes PSC Amend bill

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Friday passed the Provincial Public Service Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2011, that fixes the tenure of the commission members to...

KP Assembly raps drone attacks

PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly Monday through a unanimous resolution denounced US drone attacks in tribal regions and asked for transferring of the drone technology to armed forces of Pakistan. The resolution was moved by Awami National Party parliamentary leader Bashir Ahmad Bilour. Bilour, who also occupies a senior ministry in the cabinet, moved the resolution without taking his colleagues from Pakistan People's Party into confidence.
Expressing sharp reaction,

KP to allocate special fund for poets, artists

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain said on Saturday that the provincial government would continue to encourage artists and poets and allocate special funds for their welfare.
He expressed theses views on the occasion of a comedian poetry gathering in the Peshawar Press Club organised by the Khyber Union of Journalists (KHUJ). He said that the provincial government was active for the development and preservation of all cultural sites around the

Under-equipped KP police fighting a ‘hard’ terror war

PESHAWAR - The police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa need more special training, facilities and public support to counter militancy. Despite the challenges they have to face every day, the policemen have rendered valuable sacrifices in the war against terrorism. Late CCPO Malik Saad Khan, Abid Ali and Sifwat Ghayur were, to name the few, among those who laid their lives for restoring peace in terror struck parts of the country. The fact that the militants can attack the police in KP at will

KP govt, VCs support HEC dissolution

PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and academicians from the Peshawar University and its affiliated organs have endorsed the decision regarding the HEC dissolution. Backing the provincial autonomy in accordance with the 18th Amendment, the PK government made it clear that no problems and hardships would arise as a result of the HEC dissolution.
The Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa chief minister Saturday chaired a meeting of the vice chancellors of various universities. The