Tag: Kp
KP’s 10-member caretaker cabinet takes oath
PESHAWAR: A 10-member caretaker cabinet of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) was sworn in on Thursday.
KP Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra administered the oath to newly inducted...
KP caretaker CM for early mainstreaming of tribal areas following FATA...
PESHAWAR: Caretaker Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Justice (r) Dost Muhammad has said that the extension of governance structure of the province to FATA,...
Appointment of KP interim CM challenged in court
PESHAWAR: A lawyer on Tuesday challenged the appointment of Justice (r) Dost Mohammad Khan as caretaker chief minister in the Peshawar High Court (PHC) for...
Tribal areas in FATA re-designated as districts, sub-divisions of KP
ISLAMABAD: Tribal agencies and frontier regions in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) have been re-designated as districts and sub-divisions of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), reported by...
Tribal elders denounce KP chief secretary’s orders on tax collection
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief secretary’s latest notification pertained to ending collection of all types of Rahdaarees, import and export taxes and levies by political...
KP PTI leaders threaten to contest elections independently
PESHAWAR: Some senior Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) threatened that they would contest elections independently if party's parliamentary board awards tickets to newcomers,...
KP govt failed to reopen 346 closed schools during its tenure
PESHAWAR: A government report stated that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had failed to reopen as many as 346 closed schools in the last five years,...
Peshawar, Nowshera, KP areas without electricity for last 14 hours
PESHAWAR: A major power outage blanketed the metropolis as well as neighbouring cities Monday night since at least 14 hours, causing inconvenience to citizens.
With...
Free education still way off despite legislation: report
ISLAMABAD: Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan have spent five years without forming or developing any rules regarding free and compulsory education making the legislation...
ANP calls for holding elections in KP, FATA together
PESHAWAR: After Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Jamat-e-Islami (JI), Awami National Party (ANP) has also demanded that polls in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) be held together with...
ECP to decide KP caretaker CM after committee fails to reach...
PESHAWAR: The parliamentary committee constituted to decide the candidate for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) caretaker chief minister has decided to forward the matter to the...
President signs constitutional amendment to merge FATA with KP
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Thursday signed the 25th constitutional amendment bill seeking the merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
After...
KP notices significant decrease in terror incidents
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province has witnessed a noticeable decrease in terror incidents in the first five months of 2018, as compared to the...
4.4 magnitude earthquake causes panic in KP
PESHAWAR: An earthquake of mild intensity jolted districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Tuesday-Wednesday midnight but no causalities or property damages were reported.
According to the geological...
KP govt to introduce ordinance to preserve Nizam-e-Adl, other regulations in...
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has decided to promulgate an ordinance to maintain current regulations in the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) after the 31st...
Rain-thunderstorm likely at few places in upper Punjab, KP, GB
ISLAMABAD: Rain-thunderstorm with gusty winds/duststorm is expected at few places in Malakand, Hazara, Rawalpindi divisions, Islamabad, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan during next 24 hours, while...
PATA – not just FATA- also gets changed status after 31st...
Though they didn’t have it as bad as FATA, the much larger PATA also had some long-ignored grievances
While the 31st Amendment to the...
