Tag: Villages

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SIALKOT - The teams of GEPCO have restored the suspended electricity supply to the 15 tornado-hit villages near Head Marala, Sialkot. Gujranwala GEPCO Chief Executive Muhammad Ibrahim Majoka disclosed this while talking to journalists.
JI LEADER PASSES AWAY: Sialkot-based 78-year-old exporter and Jamaat-e-Islami Sialkot leader Professor Muhammad Ameen Javaid passed away after protracted illness. He was the father of ex-district nazim and former Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and

LAHORE - Presiding over a high-level meeting, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said construction of 22 model villages in the flood-affected areas of the province would start on March 15. These villages would be completed and handed over to the affected within 90 days, he added.
Shahbaz said the model villages, equipped with necessary facilities, would introduce a new culture in these areas, adding that the completion of construction within the timeframe was the

SIALKOT - A warm welcome was accorded to Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on her arrival at her native village Koobey Chak in Bajwat here on Sunday for the first time after getting the portfolio of federal minister for information and broadcasting.
She spent a busy day in Sialkot along with PPP leaders, AJK President Raja Zulqarnain and Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Syed Mehdi Shah. Raja Zulqarnain and Syed Mehdi Shah jointly inaugurated several development projects worth Rs 200 million

PESHAWAR - Thousands of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) from border and troubled regions of Mohmand Agency were facing numerous hardships in the tent villages established in remote areas within the tribal territory. Owing to the latest terrorist attacks and clashes between the security forces and militants, tribesmen from Khawezai, Dawezai, Saagi and Sooran were abandoning their homes and making efforts to get shelter in safe areas.
Unlike past, the political administration

DASKA - Sui Northern Gas Pipelines (SNGPL) has completed a project of providing Sui gas to Pasrur tehsil's 100 villages while the rest of the villages will be provided with the facility soon. According to reliable sources, the construction of all the inter-city roads in Pasrur would begin at the end of this month.
The source said the construction of Charwa-Chawinda Road was also under way and after the completion of this project, the easy access of the far-off bordering villages

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday said that reconstruction programme for the flood affected villages was in progress and construction of 13 model villages will be started formally from January 25 in various areas of the calamity-stricken districts.
He was presiding over a meeting in Lahore regarding the construction of model villages in flood affected areas. The meeting reviewed the pace of implementation of construction of model villages.