KALAYA, Oct 20: Elders of seven tribes of Orakzai Agency have joined hands against militants and decided to abolish no go areas for Sunni and Shia communities to create sectarian harmony in their region.
They took the decisions at a jirga held at Ondikhel area of lower Orakzai tehsil on...
AHORE, Oct 21: The Punjab government has decided to cut its non-development operational (non-salary, non-obligatory) expenditure for the current fiscal year by just below 10 per cent to Rs27 billion for saving money to help the flood survivors in the province and overcome financial crunch...
GILGIT, Oct 21: The Diamer district administration has begun acquiring land to start work on the staff colony of the Wapda in Chilas in first phase of the Diamer-Bhasha Dam.
We are acquiring 1,208 kanal of land at Thore point for the construction of the colony and the acquisition process has...
PESHAWAR, Oct 21: The administrative control of five divisions of the federal ministers will be transferred to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province by next month, initiating decentralisation process from centre to the federating units as envisaged in the Constitution.
Minister for Information Mian...
The purpose is very simple and something that i hope will not only promote readership for unbiased Journalism, but also save defence.pk from a lot of headache of having to moderate discussions on juvenile reports from news sources that really dont have a standard for journalism
So request from...
Restructuring of provincial departments under study
LAHORE, Oct 19: The Punjab government is mulling over a proposal for total restructuring and reorganisation of all provincial departments and non-departmental entities.
In addition, the proposal calls for creation of Justice Department...
Third phase of water project on the anvil
RAWALPINDI, Oct 19: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) is all set to launch the third phase of Khanpur Dam water supply project next week to improve the water distribution network at a cost of Rs690 million.
Talking to Dawn here on Tuesday...
Contractors get Rs5bn dues of quake projects
MANSEHRA, Oct 19: The federal government has released Rs5 billion of contractors working on reconstruction projects in 2005 earthquake-affected areas here.
Speaking at a joint press conference here on Tuesday, MNA Laiq Mohammad and president...
QAU alumni to help 1,800 flood-hit students
ABBOTTABAD Oct 18: A get-together of old students of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad, was held here in connection with countrywide fund-raising campaign to assist 1,800 flood-affected students of the university.
The QAU alumni...
Lowari Tunnel to open in winter
CHITRAL, Oct 18: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has said that the unfinished Lowari Tunnel will be opened for the general public during the upcoming winter season to avert inconvenience to passengers and replenishment of the...
Health dept takes steps against dengue spread
PESHAWAR, Oct 18: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has taken several steps to arrest the spread of dengue fever in Hazara division and Shangla district, according to a report issued here by the director general, health, on Monday.
The...
KALAYA, Oct 18: The internally displaced persons of the Sikh community, presently residing in Tixala, said they will soon return to their houses in different areas of Orakzai after restoration of peace in the region.
A Sikh delegation told media persons here they were willing to return to...
1,500 Fata women get vocational training
PESHAWAR, Oct 16: The Fata Development Authority has trained 2,260 youth and 1,500 women under its various skills and vocational development programmes being run in the tribal regions.
Three different projects; institution based youth skill...
Only latest news in this section, dont post stuff up from 20 days ago
Famers to get seed, fertiliser soon
BATKHELA, Oct 16: The farmers would soon get seed and fertilisers as the provincial government had approved a plan to compensate the residents of Malakand protected area affected by...