Naya KPK | News & Updates on the development in KPK.

[aks18]

always negative thinks
now they are under public private patnership

before it was 11 crore rupee burden on tax payers money now it will generate money for kpk whats so negative thinking in it ??

 

[nomi007]

‫آی جی پولیس خیبر پختونخوا ناصر خان درانی... - Imran Khan (official) | Facebook‬
IGP KP, Mr. Nasir Khan Durrani, visits forward check posts, bordering Tribal Areas, before Eid

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153132990404527

Later on IGP visited Lahore Bus stand Peshawar and mingled with commuters & transporters. IGP asked from them about performance of Police and law & order situation. The transporters and general public while praising the working of Police stated that they stand with Police and will thwart the nefarious designs of militants in collaboration with KP Police. They expressed full confidence on Police under the command of IGP.

 

[magician007]

3,000 buses in Peshawar made to return overcharged fare to passengers

Teams of the district administration checked over 3,000 vehicles and returned Rs760,000 to passengers during the past five days. An official statement said that a series of meetings were held and a special plan was devised to overcome the problem.

All the four bus stands, including Peshawar Bus Terminal, Haji Camp Bus Stand, Charsadda Adda and Kohat Road Adda, were visited by teams of officials where banners were displayed for public awareness and also a warning to the transporters to avoid overcharging.

The administration has also imposed Section 144 on sale of toy guns and firecrackers in Peshawar to discourage Kalashnikov culture and to divert the attention of children towards healthy activities. The raiding parties of administration have also confiscated fireworks and hundreds of toy guns in this connection.

Teams of officials checked overcharging by transporters ahead of Eid
Four teams comprising representatives of the transporters, Municipal Corporation Peshawar and traffic police, headed by additional assistant commissioner, checked vehicles and asked the passengers to know if they had paid extra fare.

It was stated that Deputy Commissioner Riaz Khan Mehsud had also constituted 12 teams of officials for effective price control to ensure availability of food items at the government prescribed rates.

It was stated that until 27th of Ramazan a total fine levied in Peshawar on account of overcharging and low quality of food was over Rs4.8 million. During the raids 9,640 premises were visited and 1,782 accused persons arrested. The administration also took the initiative of establishing Ramazan sasta bazaar at Chowk Yadgar where 50 stalls were set up to provide daily use items to public. The administration also formed market committees with the involvement of community in different areas to facilitate consumers. Besides, anti-encroachment drive also remained effective.

Several operations were conducted in Hayatabad, Karkhano and University Road where 693 cabins were removed, while two double storey houses at Gulbahar were demolished. In addition 1.5 kanals of government land was retrieved in Yousufzai market, Hayatabad. Land properties were also retrieved in other parts of the district, the statement claimed.

The administration has also warned the owners of bakeries to avoid overcharging. After negotiations the rates of various sweets were fixed in the limits of provincial metropolis. The administration has launched SMS service in Peshawar so that the residents could communicate their concerns to the relevant officials.

Published in Dawn, July 17th, 2015

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Deforestation is very heavy good to see new trees have been planted ....trees are lung of planet

 

[nomi007]

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

It would have been suitable to allot the project to Turkish company to establish and train local workforce

A full metro like solution is ideal 10-15 year solution

 

[nomi007]

 

[nomi007]

عمران خان کا پختونخوا کے 5 بڑے ہسپتالوں کا آپگریڈ کرنے کا فیصلہ اور انکا نظام شوکت خانم کے طرز پر ہوگا ...... کامیابی کیلئے دعاگو ہیں

 

[nomi007]

t is really important to understand the story behind numbers and these tell the whole nation how KP is changing.
KP's education budget allocation was Rs. 16,628 per child in 2013-14, the same in Punjab was Rs. 11,118 per child, Sindh was 12,947 per child, and Baluchistan was Rs. 17,971 per child.

Of these allocations, Punjab only utilized 66% of its allocated budget, Baluchistan utilized only 91.6%, and Sindh utilized 92.5%. KP was the highest utilization among all four provinces with more than 100% of allocated money, making KP the highest money spend per child on education of all the four provinces in Pakistan.

This is real change and no one can compete with that!

 

[Muhammad Omar]

sorry not trolling but how can you spend 100.7% from 100% budget?

and what about development budget which they spend just 46%?

any independent souce of these figures

 

[Leader]

sorry not trolling but how can you spend 100.7% from 100% budget?

and what about development budget which they spend just 46%?

any independent souce of these figures

Im wondering the same, I think that its overspending, like taking loan that was not allocated or something, @ajpirzada can you enlighten us?

 

[nasirahmad]

using .7% of other budgets

 

[Edevelop]

PTI claims improvement in K-P, but the tales of Nathiagali speak otherwise
By Aaminah Qadir Published: July 21, 2015

Landslides, destruction and chaos on the roads leading into Nathiagali. PHOTO: AAMINAH QADIR

I spent my childhood playing in daisy-filled meadows, walking the pakdandis and exploring the narrow roads of Nathiagali. I have drifted along these pakdandis for miles, getting lost in the green hills only to be brought home by the villagers who witnessed us growing up. My family and I are blessed that we can flee to the Galiyats, escaping the hustle bustle and frenzy that has seeped into almost every other city in Pakistan.

The hill station has been my parents and grandparents retreat of choice since the 60s. This year brings the fourth generation of our family to the Galiyats at a tender age of just nine months. Over these decades, Nathiagali has become our home and the people residing in the villages surrounding it have become our extended family. The residents of Nathiagali have taken over the preservation of its unique charm personally by planting over 150,000 trees. They also started a local ambulance service and have uplifted the educational standards of schools. And hence, predictably, any destruction of my home evokes strong emotions in me.

What has set Nathiagali apart from other hill stations is how it remains in its natural state — untouched. The occasional VIP movement shakes the peace — whether they are passing through to go to the governor’s or chief minister’s house — but they all pass, leaving behind the quaint town with its residents and its narrow roads. The hill station has been conserved, because unlike Murree and other once-beautiful hill stations, its care has been left to the people who live within it. That is until the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s (PTI) government came into power in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) with its lofty plans to expand roads and tourism.

Let me clarify — I am a proponent of increasing tourism, as are the shopkeepers and locals I have consulted. The K-P government’s plan to open guesthouses to the public is promising; this will provide tourism spaces that once belonged solely to government and army personnel. I am hopeful the plan will be mindful about the importance of proper maintenance of facilities and historic spaces.

However, their intention to make these free or cheap for the public is misguided. Heritage sites such as the ones they have now opened up to the public are preserved by charging top-dollar worldwide. Furthermore, the previously government-run chalets called the “Sarhad Tourism Chalets” are run-down and dilapidated, due to a lack of adequate maintenance.

None of the locals are willing to stand by and watch the destruction and defacing of their hometown; one of the rare few places free from the clutches of our short-sighted and ill-planned leadership. Shopkeepers say that they find no logical reason to expand the roads of the bazaar (market) — the project the government has embarked on — as tourism is peaking, even before such expansion. They complain construction was at a standstill the entire year and only resumed in the last six weeks of summer, during peak tourist season, with no management present which is clearly hampering this tourist season currently underway.

Consequently, the bazaar is ridden with slush, landslides and overflowing water, and age-old trees are being cut at random. Many in the marketplace are disillusioned; they say the new government has destroyed Nathiagali beyond repair, that it can never be restored to its original state. Shopkeepers complain their business has seen a decline since the beginning of the project and worry things won’t pick up if the area’s sanctity isn’t safeguarded.

Ultimately, the government fails to recognise the problem is of management, that wider roads will not alleviate traffic problems as there are no policemen or government officials supervising the streets or the construction work. It is heart breaking to witness the PTI government ruin the character of a beautiful hill station — a hefty price to pay for wide roads. After all, small hill stations and towns in Europe and America have flourishing tourism industries with small, winding roads, so why can’t we?

Below is the story in pictures:

This road leading to the Nathiagali Bazaar was constructed during the British Raj. It has been demolished in order to construct a dual carriageway. Shopkeepers say the government has “ruined” the bazaar.

A view of the 40-feet deep parking lot that was set to be constructed. Locals say the government has now abandoned the idea of a lot, and is simply extending the road, obstructing current access to the shops.

Age-old trees destroyed. Could they not have been avoided?

Here is a picture of a newly carpeted road. Why have these trees been cut when they are clearly not obstructing the road path? The management displays a sheer lack of care for the few regions of Pakistan that remain in their natural, beautiful state.

A 200 year old tree cut and destroyed.

Landslides, destruction and chaos on the roads leading into Nathiagali.

 

[Edevelop]

Peshawar’s mass transit system hits new snag

PESHAWAR: The much-talked about ‘mass transit system’ in the provincial capital has hit newer snags with those associated with one of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s pet projects are now acknowledging its dream may not realise, not at least in its present term in office.

“It seems difficult now,” Senator Mohsin Aziz, deputy chairman, Board of Investment, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the architect of the mass transit system, acknowledged, while talking to Dawn.

Mr Aziz, a born Peshawari industrialist now associated with PTI, who had piloted the project, who has been running from pillar to post, says the Pakistan Railways plans to lay down second track from Karachi to Peshawar which might leave little or no space to run air-conditioned buses along the existing tracks from Chamkani to Hayatabad.

He said that he along with Chief Minister Pervez Khattak met with Railways Minister Khwaja Saad Rafiq just a day before Eid to discuss the project. He said that the federal minister told them that the work was ongoing to finalise feasibility of second railway track from Karachi to Peshawar and it was difficult for him to commit anything before it was completed.

“The railway’s feasibility is expected to be finalised by the end of next month. “We will then sit down and compare feasibility of our mass transit system with the railway’s report and see if there is space for us to run our buses along the tracks,” Mr Aziz said.

“Khwaja sahib was very positive but from the looks of it, it seems to me that there would not be enough space on either side of the existing railway tracks for us to run MTS on either side.”

Mr Aziz had envisaged running private-sector-owned air-conditioned buses from the eastern Chamkani point to west-end Hayatabad, utilising railway-owned land along the existing tracks to avoid Peshawar’s chaotic traffic.

According to him, infrastructure construction etc for the proposed MTS would have cost Rs14 billion including roads, overhead bridges and that a Korean transport company had agreed to run the buses on the routes charging existing fares from passengers.

With Mr Aziz’s brainchild MTS now more or less a no-go, attention is being paid to two other options, sources say.

The most expensive option, more expensive than Islamabad Metro, is to carve two-lanes each on both sides out of the already crammed 20 kilometres long existing Grand Trunk Road including Khyber Road that passes through the cantonment area from Chamkani to Hayatabad and run buses.

The pre-feasibility of the project, pushed by a former federal bureaucrat and a former diplomat, associated with PTI has cost millions of rupees. “It’s not even a pre-feasibility. It is basically a concept paper,” a source familiar with the proposal said.

“A rickshaw wallah can prepare such a concept, prepared by an Australian,” the source said, requesting he not be named. “It is ridiculous. Anyone living in Peshawar knows the state of traffic mess in the city. You don’t need a foreigner to come and tell you that,” he said.

A feasibility report to be financed through a grant of the Asian Development Bank would cost $10 million. That in Pakistani rupee term comes to Rs1.15 billion. “This is just the cost of the feasibility report,” the source said.

“The cost of the entire project, if carried out would be in excess of Rs50 billion. Can this poor province afford this? This is one big question we need to ask ourselves before we make any decision,” the source argued.

In contrast to the ridiculously expensive two-lane project proposal, Mr Aziz’s MTS feasibility cost Rs22 million only and it too contained alternative propositions.

The third option now before the Pervez Khattak government is to run air-conditioned buses to ply on existing roads to provide better transportation facilities to the people. “It can be a joint public-private venture,” the source said.

But critics say that while the introduction of new air-conditioned buses may provide better transportation facility, it would neither cut down travel time between the eastern and western ends nor the costs.

“The buses would be running along rickshaws, rehris and donkey carts. This proposition is by no means an answer to our massive transportation problem,” the source acknowledged.

With all these options, though technically still on the table, yet more or less out of question either for being unfeasible or way too expensive, Peshawar is left with no other choice. “Lahore has its Metro. Rawalpindi-Islamabad got its Metro and Karachi is getting one also. Where do we stand in this equation,” the source asked.

Analysts now wonder whether Chief Minister Khattak should have accepted and not spurned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s offer to build a Metro Bus System in Peshawar too.

“Should we have accepted the offer? I think we should have.

It was federal money. Sharif is helping Sindh build Metro and Orang Line. The money is not coming from his personal kitty. Its federal money and KP and for that matter, Peshawar is as much entitled to it as Karachi or Pindi is,” one official said.

“But for that the PTI leadership would have to eschew its criticism of the Metro Bus by calling it a Jangla Bus. And that would be a climb down for the party leadership and this is what they would never do. It’s a matter of politics and egos,” the official remarked.

Peshawar’s mass transit system hits new snag - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

 

[Muhammad Omar]

Peshawar’s mass transit system hits new snag

PESHAWAR: The much-talked about ‘mass transit system’ in the provincial capital has hit newer snags with those associated with one of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s pet projects are now acknowledging its dream may not realise, not at least in its present term in office.

“It seems difficult now,” Senator Mohsin Aziz, deputy chairman, Board of Investment, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the architect of the mass transit system, acknowledged, while talking to Dawn.

Mr Aziz, a born Peshawari industrialist now associated with PTI, who had piloted the project, who has been running from pillar to post, says the Pakistan Railways plans to lay down second track from Karachi to Peshawar which might leave little or no space to run air-conditioned buses along the existing tracks from Chamkani to Hayatabad.

He said that he along with Chief Minister Pervez Khattak met with Railways Minister Khwaja Saad Rafiq just a day before Eid to discuss the project. He said that the federal minister told them that the work was ongoing to finalise feasibility of second railway track from Karachi to Peshawar and it was difficult for him to commit anything before it was completed.

“The railway’s feasibility is expected to be finalised by the end of next month. “We will then sit down and compare feasibility of our mass transit system with the railway’s report and see if there is space for us to run our buses along the tracks,” Mr Aziz said.

“Khwaja sahib was very positive but from the looks of it, it seems to me that there would not be enough space on either side of the existing railway tracks for us to run MTS on either side.”

Mr Aziz had envisaged running private-sector-owned air-conditioned buses from the eastern Chamkani point to west-end Hayatabad, utilising railway-owned land along the existing tracks to avoid Peshawar’s chaotic traffic.

According to him, infrastructure construction etc for the proposed MTS would have cost Rs14 billion including roads, overhead bridges and that a Korean transport company had agreed to run the buses on the routes charging existing fares from passengers.

With Mr Aziz’s brainchild MTS now more or less a no-go, attention is being paid to two other options, sources say.

The most expensive option, more expensive than Islamabad Metro, is to carve two-lanes each on both sides out of the already crammed 20 kilometres long existing Grand Trunk Road including Khyber Road that passes through the cantonment area from Chamkani to Hayatabad and run buses.

The pre-feasibility of the project, pushed by a former federal bureaucrat and a former diplomat, associated with PTI has cost millions of rupees. “It’s not even a pre-feasibility. It is basically a concept paper,” a source familiar with the proposal said.

“A rickshaw wallah can prepare such a concept, prepared by an Australian,” the source said, requesting he not be named. “It is ridiculous. Anyone living in Peshawar knows the state of traffic mess in the city. You don’t need a foreigner to come and tell you that,” he said.

A feasibility report to be financed through a grant of the Asian Development Bank would cost $10 million. That in Pakistani rupee term comes to Rs1.15 billion. “This is just the cost of the feasibility report,” the source said.

“The cost of the entire project, if carried out would be in excess of Rs50 billion. Can this poor province afford this? This is one big question we need to ask ourselves before we make any decision,” the source argued.

In contrast to the ridiculously expensive two-lane project proposal, Mr Aziz’s MTS feasibility cost Rs22 million only and it too contained alternative propositions.

The third option now before the Pervez Khattak government is to run air-conditioned buses to ply on existing roads to provide better transportation facilities to the people. “It can be a joint public-private venture,” the source said.

But critics say that while the introduction of new air-conditioned buses may provide better transportation facility, it would neither cut down travel time between the eastern and western ends nor the costs.

“The buses would be running along rickshaws, rehris and donkey carts. This proposition is by no means an answer to our massive transportation problem,” the source acknowledged.

With all these options, though technically still on the table, yet more or less out of question either for being unfeasible or way too expensive, Peshawar is left with no other choice. “Lahore has its Metro. Rawalpindi-Islamabad got its Metro and Karachi is getting one also. Where do we stand in this equation,” the source asked.

Analysts now wonder whether Chief Minister Khattak should have accepted and not spurned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s offer to build a Metro Bus System in Peshawar too.

“Should we have accepted the offer? I think we should have.

It was federal money. Sharif is helping Sindh build Metro and Orang Line. The money is not coming from his personal kitty. Its federal money and KP and for that matter, Peshawar is as much entitled to it as Karachi or Pindi is,” one official said.

“But for that the PTI leadership would have to eschew its criticism of the Metro Bus by calling it a Jangla Bus. And that would be a climb down for the party leadership and this is what they would never do. It’s a matter of politics and egos,” the official remarked.

Peshawar’s mass transit system hits new snag - Pakistan - DAWN.COM