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[Arsalan]

PTI IT wing must get more active and leaving ethics and morality aside should start shouting about whatever good is being done in KPK. i am sorry for saying this the rude way but unfortunately that will be the way forward. At present the positives are not getting enough coverage and the entire focus of our corrupt media is on Dharna's and Rallies and Protests. This will make us a laugh stock.

so please be vocal about the good that is being done, and this should be brought into lime light through e-media and new papers. Not every one visit defence.pk or facebook PTI page.

i am saying this as i live in Faisalabad and only i know how many negative arguments i have to face on day to day basis.

Now today PM have authorized to hand over PEPCO to KPK gov but our CM have said no. The reasons should be made clear and simple enough for general public to understand.

 

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KPK Achieves NFC Revenue Collection Target with other three Provinces Failing


ISLAMABAD: As provinces are finding it difficult to achieve the revenue collection target set in 2010, the National Finance Commission (NFC) has warned that it would be impossible to achieve the 15pc tax-to-GDP ratio in the terminal year of the award (2014-15), if the provinces continue with the same trend.

According to the second biannual monitoring report on the implementation of NFC award, Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan could not achieve the revenue collection target set by the NFC since July 1, 2010, the first year of the award.

These provinces remain far behind in their quest for achieving the target set by the NFC of 15pc tax-to-GDP ratio. The report was submitted by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar to the just-concluded sessions of Senate and the National Assembly this month.

Against the proposed target of 42.14pc of tax-to-GDP ratio, Punjab was able to gain 30.2pc; Sindh’s revenue growth was minus 17.4pc against the target of 36.44pc and Balochistan recorded minus 5.0pc growth against the target of 1.03pc.

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa was, however, able to achieve 5.9pc growth against the recommended tax-to-GDP growth of 3.94pc, a target projected for the same period.

The report recommended that the federal and provincial governments should streamline their tax collection systems to reduce leakages and increase their revenues through efforts to improve taxation to achieve the target set by 2014-15, the final year of seventh NFC award.

The report says that Sindh government has established Sindh Revenue Board and started collecting GST on services by itself. Punjab has created the Punjab Revenue Authority as a major reform with the mandate to administer and collect sales tax on services.

KP has also developed a mechanism for collection of GST, while Balochistan maintains status quo and FBR is still collecting GST on its behalf.

Explaining the measures of fiscal discipline in provinces, the report notes that development funds are being released in Punjab on biannual basis to match transfer of development funds with available fiscal space to the Punjab government.

Release of development funds was being strictly monitored along with actual expenditure against the released amounts to avoid unnecessary parking of funds.

The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has committed not to go in the overdraft from the State Bank and the cash balance position of the provincial government with the SBP is satisfactory.

The Balochistan government is the only province which has retired all domestic debt, including cash development loan, and blocked accounts with the SBP and closed its cash balance in credit on terminal of fiscal years.

The report says that the federal government has decided to facilitate provinces to harmonise taxation on agriculture income, as agriculture income tax collected by the provinces are very negligible despite the fact that agriculture sector is one of the major contributors of the GDP.

The main objective of the exercise is to properly explore the potential of tax collection from agriculture and bring it at par with other sectors.

The NFC award had recommended that provinces would initiate steps to effectively tax the agriculture and real estate sectors.



3 provinces fail to achieve NFC target - DAWN.COM

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

Good work as expected. Keep it continue... still a long way to go.

 

[Leader]

Way to go..

As a person he is an honest man !

PTI IT wing must get more active and leaving ethics and morality aside should start shouting about whatever good is being done in KPK. i am sorry for saying this the rude way but unfortunately that will be the way forward. At present the positives are not getting enough coverage and the entire focus of our corrupt media is on Dharna's and Rallies and Protests. This will make us a laugh stock.

so please be vocal about the good that is being done, and this should be brought into lime light through e-media and new papers. Not every one visit defence.pk or facebook PTI page.

i am saying this as i live in Faisalabad and only i know how many negative arguments i have to face on day to day basis.

Now today PM have authorized to hand over PEPCO to KPK gov but our CM have said no. The reasons should be made clear and simple enough for general public to understand.

you tell us what exactly should we do to get vocal about the good work being done, the fact is LB elections will give us the idea in change of opinion.

your own town in by-elections elected a PTI MPA, where pmln had clean sweeped, wonder if that was not an indicator, what else is?

yes I know pmln gossip network is very strong, but noone in town wants to talk sense or go in details, they just want to spread rumors and mirchi news, true or not is not a concern, this is the way it is.

p.s. we dont have a very serious setup of political discussions. look at the media, all after mirchi and non-issue news. no seriousness.
how do you think how people formulate their opinions? most do the duck walk...

 

[Leader]

https://twitter.com/x/status/417655437312282624

Pa jee @RescueRanger your department !

IT Excellence Center starts work at kpk #NayaKpk

website: http://khyberpakhtunkhwa.gov.pk/Departments/itec/index.php…

 

[Leader]

IT Excellence Center starts work at kpk #NayaKpk

website: http://khyberpakhtunkhwa.gov.pk/Departments/itec/index.php…

 

[RescueRanger]

https://twitter.com/x/status/417655437312282624

Pa jee @RescueRanger your department !

Well sir the thing is:
The first DG for KPK was Dr. Shams ul Haq:

Then you had Dr. Khateer Ahmad was sitting on two posts in KPK 1122, as Dg and Dep. Director

Now we have Dr. Asad Ali Khan Former Secretary P&D as DG KPK 1122. I understand that he was given the position in public interest, which would make sense, but just to clarify his posting would still need to be compliant with the rules for selecting a D.G:

Director General.---
(1) Government shall appoint a Director General, who shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Rescue 1122 and shall exercise such powers and perform such functions as may be assigned to him by the Council.
(2) The Director General shall be a person who-
(a) is a postgraduate in emergency management or an emergency subject or
has specialization in management of trauma or emergency patients or is a
medical postgraduate;
(b) has adequate knowledge, formal training and expertise in the filed of
emergency management; and
(c) is not more than sixty years of age.

 

[Leader]

Muhammad Ali Khan PTI MNA

Well sir the thing is:
The first DG for KPK was Dr. Shams ul Haq:

Then you had Dr. Khateer Ahmad was sitting on two posts in KPK 1122, as Dg and Dep. Director

Now we have Dr. Asad Ali Khan Former Secretary P&D as DG KPK 1122. I understand that he was given the position in public interest, which would make sense, but just to clarify his posting would still need to be compliant with the rules for selecting a D.G:

Director General.---
(1) Government shall appoint a Director General, who shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Rescue 1122 and shall exercise such powers and perform such functions as may be assigned to him by the Council.
(2) The Director General shall be a person who-
(a) is a postgraduate in emergency management or an emergency subject or
has specialization in management of trauma or emergency patients or is a
medical postgraduate;
(b) has adequate knowledge, formal training and expertise in the filed of
emergency management; and
(c) is not more than sixty years of age.

hmm... agree, it should be a technocrat !

 

[Leader]

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided that no public place and project built with the public money would be named after any individual.



It also formed a three-member ministerial committee to propose austerity measures for bringing down public expenses in the province.Briefing the media after the 8th provincial cabinet meeting that was chaired by Chief Minister Pervez Khattak here on Monday, Information Minister Shah Farman said it was decided that projects and public places like parks, bridges, hospitals, roads, etc that are built with public money would not be named after any individual. He added that decision on the matter of placing inauguration plaques on projects by ministers, etc would be placed before the provincial assembly for debate.



The cabinet approved austerity measures to discourage unnecessary expenditures and formed a committee comprising of Senior Minister Sirajul Haq, Minister for Agriculture Shahram Khan Tarakai and Information Minister Shah Farman to give proposals to the government for bringing down public expenses.



Shah Farman said the Health Department was directed to recruit doctors under contractual arrangements to expeditiously overcome the shortfall of doctors in health sector institutions. He added that vacant posts such as leave and deputation vacancies would also be filled on contractual basis.



He said the cabinet stressed on expediting computerisation of land record where it was already in progress and start the process in all districts across the province for which resources would be provided in the next fiscal year.



“The cabinet also resolved to make proper legislation on usury and approved prohibition of usurious loans bills and called for making it comprehensive and unambiguous to provide relief to those falling victim to this curse,” the minister explained.



The minister maintained that usury is against the Islamic laws and ideology and the cabinet decided to carry out proper legislation on the subject.Shah Farman said that no government advertisements would in future have pictures of any public officeholder. He said the cabinet directed all the public sector institutions to route advertisements through the provincial Information Department.



In response to a question, Shah Farman said the cabinet, however, did not take any decision on the projects already named after various personalities in the province.The cabinet imposed ban on illegal cutting of forests till a transparent and foolproof mechanism is evolved by a task force formed for the purpose, the minister said.



He said the cabinet approved Rs500 million for monthly stipends to unemployed youth of all public sector institutions holding master’s degree.“Additional funds would be provided if the number of students increased. The students of madaris (seminaries) having first division in their degrees equivalent to master’s degree would also be given stipends on merit,” he stated.



The minister said the cabinet had agreed to make legislation for running the affairs of Auqaf, Hajj, Religious and Minority Affairs Department in pursuance of the 18th Amendment of the Constitution.



KP govt decides not to name public places, projects after individuals - thenews.com.pk

 

[Leader]

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some issues that need to be addressed !

 

[Leader]

 

[Leader]

Chinese firm to set up metal processing unit in Risalpur


A Chinese mining firm has acquired 44 kanals at the Export Promotion Zone in Risalpur, near here, for establishing a metal processing unit with an initial investment of $30 million, according to an official handout released on Friday.

A visiting delegation of Pearl River Mining Private Limited, led by its chief executive officer Wang Liang, called on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and apprised him of the progress made on setting up the processing unit at Risalpur.

The Chinese delegation informed the chief minister that the processing unit would hire 400 employees from among the local people. “With the setting up of the mining factory, copper salphite, copper oxide, lead, silver, gold, zinc and antimony used in electronics would be exploited in Upper and Lower Dir, Chitral, Kohistan and Hazara districts, Gilgit and Wazirstan areas and transported to the factory for purification,” according to the handout.

The EPZ, Risalpur, is a federal government initiative and investments from abroad and from within the country are processed by the federal ministry of commerce, according to a member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Talking to officials of the Chinese firm, the chief minister expressed satisfaction about the progress made so far in setting up the factory and assured his government’s cooperation in pursuing their business endeavours in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

He termed it a good omen for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and its people, hoping more foreign investors would take a cue from the Chinese firm and invest in the natural resource sector of the province to take benefit of its vast potential.

Mr Khattak said that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led provincial government would never accept any conditional foreign assistance.

“We believe in trade not aid and for this we are ready to provide all kinds of incentives and guarantees to the investors,” the chief minister was quoted by the official statement.

He said that his government invited foreign investors to invest in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with all satisfaction, utilising its precious minerals and water for hydel power generation.

The Chinese delegation also included the company’s lab in-charge Lee Engnen, manager Hui, managing director of the project Fahad, and senior mining geologist M. Essa Khan.

The company chief informed the chief minister that services of local mining companies would also be hired, which would give a boost to business activities in the surrounding areas of the processing unit.

Chinese firm to set up metal processing unit in Risalpur - DAWN.COM

 

[Leader]

13 parliamentary secretaries de-notified

Khyber Pakhtun-khwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Thursday de-notified 13 parliamentary secretaries with immediate effect.



According to a handout, the de-notified secretaries include Javed Nasim, Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) PK-3 Peshawar, Mehmood Jan, MPA PK-7 Peshawar, Arbab Jehandad Khan, MPA PK-9 Peshawar, Muhammad Idrees, MPA PK-15 Nowshera, Arshad Ali, MPA PK-19 Charsadda, Muhammad Arif, MPA PK-22 Charsadda, Muhammad Zahid Durrani, MPA PK-24 Mardan, Gohar Nawaz Khan, MPA PK-51 Haripur, Javed Akbar Khan, MPA PK-68 Dera Ismail Khan, Azizullah Khan, MPA PK-81 Swat, Ms Naseem Hayat , Ms Bibi Fozia and Ms Khatoon Bibi.



Most of the de-notified parliamentary secretaries belong to the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Some were unhappy because they felt they were powerless. The government had initially announced that the parliamentary secretaries won’t get any official facilities. However, some perks were later made available to the parliamentary secretaries.



The government had appointed 33 parliamentary secretaries in one go to accommodate the lawmakers from the PTI, QWP, Jamaat and Awami Jamhoori Ittehad Pakistan, all part of the ruling coalition. Some independent MPAs too were appointed parliamentary secretaries.



13 parliamentary secretaries de-notified - thenews.com.pk



Cameras to be installed at checkpoints


Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has approved installation of close circuit television cameras at all checkpoints of the province bordering the tribal agencies.

He also directed the authorities concerned to take proper measures for the purpose to supervise activities of police and security officials and ensure safety of people.

Mr Khattak was talking to a 50-member delegation of Mehsud tribe of South Waziristan Agency at Chief Minister Secretariat here on Thursday.

The delegation members appreciated the steps and policy of the government for development of the province and apprised the chief minister of their problems and demands.

The chief minister said that tribal people should be involved in the dialogue process with Taliban. He said that government and people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa wanted peace and stability not only in the province but also in the tribal areas.

“PTI adopted a clear stand over the US drone attacks in tribal areas and also took the bitter decision of halting Nato supply so that the world community can understand our sufferings,” he said.

Mr Khattak said that he was pleased to note that tribal people staying in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa especially in Peshawar were satisfied with the implementation of reforms agenda of the provincial government. They liked the changes being brought about in police stations and revenue department, he added

 

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