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Two polio workers among six kidnapped from FR Tank
ZAHIR SHAH SHERAZI
In this Feb. 2, 2014 photo, Pakistani police officer stand guard as people who need to vaccinate their children against polio approach health workers, in Peshawar, Pakistan. —AP Photo
Published 2014-02-17 17:35:13
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PESHAWAR: Six men including two polio workers were kidnapped from a rural area in Frontier Region Tank, official sources told Dawn.com on Monday.
Sources said that a driver accompanying a team of polio vaccination workers and three Khasadar security personnel were also picked up by unknown people while the team was on routine duty in Peeng village in FR Tank.
Sources added that the kidnapped men included Dr Khandad and Fareed Taleem Ullah, who were working for the polio vaccination program.
No militant group has so far claimed responsibility of the kidnapping.
The incident comes a day after a policeman deployed for a vaccination campaign was killed in a bomb attack in Peshawar.
FR Tank lies on the outer boundaries of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Tank district and separates it from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) governed by tribal laws.
Pakistan is one of only three countries where the crippling polio virus remains endemic.
According to the WHO, Pakistan recorded 91 cases of polio last year, up from 58 in 2012. It warned earlier this year that Peshawar is the world’s “largest reservoir” of polio.
More than 40 health workers and police personnel providing security to teams administering anti-polio drops to children have been killed in incidents of violence in the country since December 2012, according to a tally by news agency AFP.
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shot dead in Peshawar
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Published 2014-02-17 20:16:32
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PESHAWAR: A former minister of the Afghan Taliban who was in favour of peace talks with the Kabul government was gunned down in Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar on Monday, Afghan Taliban sources said.
“Armed assailants riding on a motorbike shot Mullah Abdul Raqeeb, a former minister for refugees during the Taliban regime, killing him on the spot,” a member of the Afghan Taliban in Pakistan told AFP.
Speaking from Afghanistan, another Taliban member said Raqeeb was part of a group in Peshawar “which is in favour of making some connection with the Afghan government over possible peace talks.”
Raqeeb was coming out of a religious seminary where he had been teaching when he was attacked.
Senior Peshawar police officer Muhammad Faisal confirmed the murder.
A Taliban office in Qatar that opened last June was meant to lead to peace talks, but instead it enraged Afghan President Hamid Karzai after it was styled as an embassy for a government-in-exile.
Public efforts at reconciliation have since been frozen.
In a written statement, another former Afghan minister Aga Jan Motasim said leaders and jihadi commanders of the Afghan Taliban were being targeted in the Pakistani cities of Quetta and Peshawar.
“Mullah Abdul Raqeeb was working for a peaceful Afghanistan,” said the statement.
He praised Raqeeb, terming him a learned scholar, politician, social worker and “guardian of thousands of orphans.”
On Thursday, the Afghan government released scores of alleged Taliban fighters from Bagram prison, leading to criticism from the United States.
Some analysts say the releases could help kickstart the moribund peace talks with the Taliban, who were ousted from power in 2001.
Pakistan is seen as crucial to peace in neighbouring Afghanistan as it was a key backer of the hardline 1996-2001 Taliban regime in Kabul.
Monday's killing in Peshawar came weeks after an influential cleric close to the one-eyed spiritual leader of the Afghan Taliban was killed in Quetta.
Senior leaders of the Afghan Taliban have been repeatedly targeted and killed in Quetta and Peshawar but nobody has ever claimed responsibility.
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ZAHIR SHAH SHERAZI
In this Feb. 2, 2014 photo, Pakistani police officer stand guard as people who need to vaccinate their children against polio approach health workers, in Peshawar, Pakistan. —AP Photo
Published 2014-02-17 17:35:13
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PESHAWAR: Six men including two polio workers were kidnapped from a rural area in Frontier Region Tank, official sources told Dawn.com on Monday.
Sources said that a driver accompanying a team of polio vaccination workers and three Khasadar security personnel were also picked up by unknown people while the team was on routine duty in Peeng village in FR Tank.
Sources added that the kidnapped men included Dr Khandad and Fareed Taleem Ullah, who were working for the polio vaccination program.
No militant group has so far claimed responsibility of the kidnapping.
The incident comes a day after a policeman deployed for a vaccination campaign was killed in a bomb attack in Peshawar.
FR Tank lies on the outer boundaries of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Tank district and separates it from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) governed by tribal laws.
Pakistan is one of only three countries where the crippling polio virus remains endemic.
According to the WHO, Pakistan recorded 91 cases of polio last year, up from 58 in 2012. It warned earlier this year that Peshawar is the world’s “largest reservoir” of polio.
More than 40 health workers and police personnel providing security to teams administering anti-polio drops to children have been killed in incidents of violence in the country since December 2012, according to a tally by news agency AFP.
NAYA KPK UPDATED.?
shot dead in Peshawar
AFP
– File Photo
Published 2014-02-17 20:16:32
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PESHAWAR: A former minister of the Afghan Taliban who was in favour of peace talks with the Kabul government was gunned down in Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar on Monday, Afghan Taliban sources said.
“Armed assailants riding on a motorbike shot Mullah Abdul Raqeeb, a former minister for refugees during the Taliban regime, killing him on the spot,” a member of the Afghan Taliban in Pakistan told AFP.
Speaking from Afghanistan, another Taliban member said Raqeeb was part of a group in Peshawar “which is in favour of making some connection with the Afghan government over possible peace talks.”
Raqeeb was coming out of a religious seminary where he had been teaching when he was attacked.
Senior Peshawar police officer Muhammad Faisal confirmed the murder.
A Taliban office in Qatar that opened last June was meant to lead to peace talks, but instead it enraged Afghan President Hamid Karzai after it was styled as an embassy for a government-in-exile.
Public efforts at reconciliation have since been frozen.
In a written statement, another former Afghan minister Aga Jan Motasim said leaders and jihadi commanders of the Afghan Taliban were being targeted in the Pakistani cities of Quetta and Peshawar.
“Mullah Abdul Raqeeb was working for a peaceful Afghanistan,” said the statement.
He praised Raqeeb, terming him a learned scholar, politician, social worker and “guardian of thousands of orphans.”
On Thursday, the Afghan government released scores of alleged Taliban fighters from Bagram prison, leading to criticism from the United States.
Some analysts say the releases could help kickstart the moribund peace talks with the Taliban, who were ousted from power in 2001.
Pakistan is seen as crucial to peace in neighbouring Afghanistan as it was a key backer of the hardline 1996-2001 Taliban regime in Kabul.
Monday's killing in Peshawar came weeks after an influential cleric close to the one-eyed spiritual leader of the Afghan Taliban was killed in Quetta.
Senior leaders of the Afghan Taliban have been repeatedly targeted and killed in Quetta and Peshawar but nobody has ever claimed responsibility.
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PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Oil and Gas Company Limited’s Board of Directors on Monday asked the company’s management to submit a detailed business plan for its Rs10 billion agenda.
According to the people privy to the meeting, the KPOGCL BoD asked the company management to submit a proper business plan in the next meeting, which is likely to be held in around two weeks.
“The company has an ambitious roadmap that could turn around Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s economy if it succeeds to implement even 50 per cent of its agenda,” said Zahidullah Shinwari, president of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chamber of Commerce and Industry.Mr Shinwari, who is a member of the board, confirmed that the company’s chief executive had been required by the board to come up with a proper business plan in the next meeting.
The company bosses asked for the board’s approval for their Rs10 billion action plan and activities the KPOGCL wanted to undertake over a period of next 18 months, according to sources.
An initiative of the previous ANP-led government, the KPOGCL makes an integral part of the current PTI-led government’s economic roadmap as well in line with its strategy to achieve economic prosperity and job creation in the province.
PTI, the majority party in power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, recently hired a private sector professional with years of work experience in the oil and gas sector as the chief executive officer of KPOGCL.
Accordingly, the company’s board of directors also underwent significant changes following the change of the provincial government.
Some of the leading industrialists belonging to varied industrial backgrounds have been appointed on the Board.
Out of the Rs10 billion development plan put forth by the company for an approval by the board, a considerable part of the funds will be utilised to buy a few rigs, used in drilling for oil and gas, and other heavy machinery to carry out its exploration activities.
However, the board’s chairman, who is the chief executive officer of a private cement factory, asked the management to provide a proper business plan at the board’s next meeting.
In this regard, Mr Shinwari said the board had appreciated the company’s roadmap.
He, however, said the company was in its initial stages as its proper structures had to be put in place, staff to be hired, powers determined, and a proper office had to be set up before it could launch its activities.
“They sound confident to attain the production levels of 500 MMCF gas and 50,000 barrels oil in the next few years,” Mr Shinwari said, adding that the company had made a good start as some of the best available professionals had been taken on its board.
However, according to circles privy to the meeting, the business plan was not the only issue that generated some intense discussion at the board’s meeting.
Rs10bn oil, gas uplift plan for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ready - DAWN.COM
According to the people privy to the meeting, the KPOGCL BoD asked the company management to submit a proper business plan in the next meeting, which is likely to be held in around two weeks.
“The company has an ambitious roadmap that could turn around Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s economy if it succeeds to implement even 50 per cent of its agenda,” said Zahidullah Shinwari, president of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chamber of Commerce and Industry.Mr Shinwari, who is a member of the board, confirmed that the company’s chief executive had been required by the board to come up with a proper business plan in the next meeting.
The company bosses asked for the board’s approval for their Rs10 billion action plan and activities the KPOGCL wanted to undertake over a period of next 18 months, according to sources.
An initiative of the previous ANP-led government, the KPOGCL makes an integral part of the current PTI-led government’s economic roadmap as well in line with its strategy to achieve economic prosperity and job creation in the province.
PTI, the majority party in power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, recently hired a private sector professional with years of work experience in the oil and gas sector as the chief executive officer of KPOGCL.
Accordingly, the company’s board of directors also underwent significant changes following the change of the provincial government.
Some of the leading industrialists belonging to varied industrial backgrounds have been appointed on the Board.
Out of the Rs10 billion development plan put forth by the company for an approval by the board, a considerable part of the funds will be utilised to buy a few rigs, used in drilling for oil and gas, and other heavy machinery to carry out its exploration activities.
However, the board’s chairman, who is the chief executive officer of a private cement factory, asked the management to provide a proper business plan at the board’s next meeting.
In this regard, Mr Shinwari said the board had appreciated the company’s roadmap.
He, however, said the company was in its initial stages as its proper structures had to be put in place, staff to be hired, powers determined, and a proper office had to be set up before it could launch its activities.
“They sound confident to attain the production levels of 500 MMCF gas and 50,000 barrels oil in the next few years,” Mr Shinwari said, adding that the company had made a good start as some of the best available professionals had been taken on its board.
However, according to circles privy to the meeting, the business plan was not the only issue that generated some intense discussion at the board’s meeting.
Rs10bn oil, gas uplift plan for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ready - DAWN.COM
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I heard an appeal notice that botanical garden was destroyed in floods and that no proper measures have been taken to restore it as of now?
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well no its still a wonderful place for research.
but its good that arid university idea is being converted into practical thing
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Things are starting to look good day by day, i sincerely hope this progress continues!
Can i use this pic. on my face book?
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off course bro
things were initially slow but I think the progress is starting to pick up pace.
correct but I think it might be a public/private joint venture.
