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[AstanoshKhan]

@cleverrider

This is what I was talking about.

The company is keen on investing in 1000MW energy generation.

 

[Edevelop]

@cleverrider

This is what I was talking about.

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Here is another view

 

[Leader]

^ @AstanoshKhan whats up with all those wires?

nice to see trees all over, something idiots have cut down on a massive scale in lahore.

 

[AstanoshKhan]

^ @AstanoshKhan whats up with all those wires?

nice to see trees all over, something idiots have cut down on a massive scale in lahore.

The wires is the result of bad planning and management of Cantonment-Board/Peshawar-Development-Authority. They're of electricity, telephone and cable operators... no underground system.

 

[A.Rafay]

The wires is the result of bad planning and management of Cantonment-Board/Peshawar-Development-Authority. They're of electricity, telephone and cable operators... no underground system.

Wires of telephone and electricity should be underground.

 

[Edevelop]

^ @AstanoshKhan whats up with all those wires?

nice to see trees all over, something idiots have cut down on a massive scale in lahore.

Actually that reminds me of MM Alam Road

Wires of telephone and electricity should be underground.

Anything is possible but be prepared to spend money

 

[Leader]

http://www.defence.pk/forums/nation...e-pushes-pti-s-reform-agenda.html#post4504282

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-7-188663-Journalists-hail-judicial-inquiry-decision

 

[Jango]

Wires of telephone and electricity should be underground.

In Islamabad, all the wires were originally underground, you couldn't see a single overhead pole except the streetlights bach when our house was made...but now in the new sectors the CDA is making overhead wires.

This does 3 things:

1- More chances of kunda connection.

2- More chances of fault due to weather.

3- Eyesore.

These wires really ruin the whole scenery, especially of a city like Islamabad and then the picture of Peshawar that was posted above, imagine the road without those wires, the trees would look beautiful.

The lineman in Pakistan just inserts a wire wherever he pleases!

 

[TaimiKhan]

A reality check: Of overbearing consultants and a brooding Khattak - DAWN.COM



IT HAS been thirty-eight days since Chief Minister Pervez Khattak took oath of his office and those thirty-eight days have been amusingly roller-coaster.

No wonder, the nascent government has yet to find its feet, not so much probably for want of desire to settle down and get going but for reasons and factors that are beyond them.

Beginning from the top, Mr Khattak, the lean, tall bespectacled veteran of past governments, seems a stand-alone man. Perception, and there is a good measure of it, is that he is irrelevant, or has been made irrelevant.

Decisions, it is said, are made in Zaman Park, Lahore, and not in Peshawar. This, officials say, is adding up to the backlog and stymieing the whole reform process.

‘Directive’ to the top bureaucrat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said to have come directly from the PTI chairman, to “bring your own team” in the presence of ever-brooding chief minister has given further fillip to the perception of a toothless Khattak.

And if that was not enough to damage the credentials of the party in power in KP, instructions to the bureaucracy, from some people really close to the party leadership, bypassing the frail-in-frame chief minister, has made some wonder; who is in-charge here?

This, and the horde of consultants and working groups laden with some of the party candidates, who lost elections in Lahore and elsewhere with ready-made recipes to make their dream of a Naya Pakistan come true in KP, has not helped things either.

What happened was probably more amusing than the most popular television comedy show these days. The ‘visionary’ consultants had no clue that Gen Musharraf’s 2001 Local Government Ordinance was history and that KP has its own local government law enacted in 2012.

And then PTI’s much cherished village councils. It turned out that the statistics these wizards of change had brought with them had been taken from an internet source. The figures did not add up. Little wonder, the dream has had to be put on hold till further discussions in Islamabad and Lahore.

Not very surprisingly, some of PTI’s own party ministers are brimming with frustration. They feel suffocated. In the words of one minister: “The party leadership should have faith in us and let us work. There is no need for the people from Lahore to come and teach us how to run this government.”

This, more than anything else, may harm the image of PTI’s KP government of being remote-controlled from Lahore. Already, what were whispers are now murmurs. Some within the officialdom liken the PTI leadership to a drone hovering above the one-square kilometre area above the Chief Minister’s Secretariat and the Civil Secretariat.

And need this be told also that the spleen-venting new generation of politicians is clueless about KP’s Problem No 1, security? Never mind their statements ad nauseam on the War on Terror. Their first presentation on what they wanted to do had a blank slide with a big question mark in the middle on security, this according to an official who attended it.

So, the pressure is telling. Like lemmings, PTI’s ardent followers in the cabinet, passionately parrot the party’s policy statements, even if it sounds bizarre and at times ridiculous, given the context of the situation. And need this be told that the spleen-venting new generation of politicians “It is not our war”, say some ministers. “This is an imposed war”, say others. Chief Minister Khattak has gone a step further, almost with a bended knee, offering to extend due reverence to the Taliban with whom, he insists, his government has no quarrel. Just, when the month of May saw the highest number of terrorist incidents 119 in total, the highest in the last five months.

The alarming thing is that all divisions, except, Hazara have shown substantial increase in the number of terrorist attacks. Peshawar is leading the figures in the number of attacks.

As the casualty figures mount with bombings, attacks and target-killings, the ministers justify the acts. “This is a reaction to drone attacks”, they say, even if this ‘revenge’ is grossly disproportionate -- 2,500 to 3,500 militants and ‘civilians’ put together -- to a total of 48,000 Pakistanis killed since September, 2001.

What is more worrying is the confusion caused in the rank and file of the KP police by such statements.

If it is not “our war” as the police say, “Why should we be fighting and losing lives on a daily basis”, they ask -- the police casualty figures are staggering, 65 of them having lost their lives since January 1, 2013, the highest casualty figure to-date in six months. “Why not abolish all the checkposts around Peshawar and other places and raise white flags,” they ask.

For this to happen, they say, the KP government does not have to wait for national consensus or national policy. All that needs to be done is an executive order from the chief minister in this regard.

Given the lack of clarity and prevailing confusion, the mounting police casualties has rattled their rank and file, something that the ministers would have known, had they been attending the funerals at the Police Lines, now happening on a daily basis.

The irony, say senior law enforcement officers, is that while the PTI leadership calls for an end to military operations to give peace and negotiations a chance, yet the government requested military to come in aid of the civil law enforcement agencies to launch operation against militants to the south of Peshawar in Mattani, the day after the killing of six Frontier Constabulary men and the day, when a police officer was killed, while battling the militants, just when the chief minister was taking a broad swipe at the police for corruption.

What is perplexing for some government officials is the impact of the drone argument do with sectarian target killings, which too, they say, has registered an all-time high record, 51, in the last six months against 61 for the whole last year.

So, while the PTI endeavours to create a ‘Naya Pakistan’ here in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it needs to understand that the working groups and bevy of consultants are only adding to the confusion, creating and adding to work backlogs.

This is not the good governance the PTI chairman has been talking about. As one officer quipped, there is no need to reinvent the wheel.

The wheel is already there, you only have to keep it rolling.

 

[Jango]

I agree that the PTI's terror policy is flawed to the core, and thank god they aren't the ones formulating it. The plus point though is that Imran Khan and PTI's statements have changed regarding terrorism, before they used to advocate total peace with all, now they make statements that different groups should be dealt with differently.

N-league terror policy has also changed it seems. They are now making no statements regarding terrorists except a vague line here and there.

As for the part which says about conflicting orders, there is some truth in that I believe. Although Pervez Khattak isn't a Qaim Ali Shah, but he is taking consultative sessions with the PTI central leadership, and I don't see any wrong in taking the party board into consideration before executing a major project as long as it doesn't translate into direct orders.

 

[Marshmallow]

 

[Marshmallow]

 

[Jango]

The Popalzai in Peshawar didn't announce a separate moon this time.

This is the first time in years....definitely a change!

The Info Minister also said that the start of Ramzan will be in accordance with the Central Ruet-e-Hilal committee throughout the province.

 

[Marshmallow]

The Popalzai in Peshawar didn't announce a separate moon this time.

This is the first time in years....definitely a change!

The Info Minister also said that the start of Ramzan will be in accordance with the Central Ruet-e-Hilal committee throughout the province.

Imran Khan with his Junooni Supporters at Heathrow Airport

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=415920891854008

 

[Leader]

KP announces steps to undo thana culture


The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Tuesday announced measures to reform the provincial police system, including bar on the people’s detention in police stations without evidence of their wrongdoing and removal of inefficient officers.

According to provincial information minister Shaukat Ali Yousafzai, the measures will make police efficient and thus, helping them regain public confidence.

After a meeting of the cabinet, which lasted over five years with Chief Minister Pervez Khattak in the chair, the minister told reporters that the provincial home secretary and the police officer briefed participants on the law and order situation and governance.

He said issues related to police were also discussed by participants, who decided that the police’s intelligence would be strengthened and that major chunk of the budget allocated for the department would be spent on police stations.

The minister said the cabinet expressed dissatisfaction with the performance of the police’s investigation wing and called for improvement in its performance.

“The cabinet authorised the provincial police chief to identify inefficient officers in the force so that they could be replaced with competent officers. Also, the federal government will be requested to send talented officers to the province,” he said.

Mr Yousafzai said several measures were approved to reform the current ‘thana culture’ in the province and that one of them was that police would not keep people in the police stations’ lockups without evidence of their wrongdoing. He said police officials would work in two shifts and that there would be a complete ban on shoulder promotion in the department.

The minister said the relevant police stations would gather fingerprints of suspected persons.

He said the tenure of station house officers and other field officers would be determined, while tenure of moharrar (reader) in police station had been restricted to one year.

Mr Yousafzai said it had been decided that tenure of the post of moharrar had been fixed for five years and that there would be special desks in every police station for women to lodge complaints.

He said training imparted to recruits at training centres could not meet requirements of the present situation, especially counter terrorism, and therefore, the cabinet approved to hire new instructors.

The minister said the provincial government would request the centre to repatriate platoons of Frontier Constabulary to improve security situation in settled areas adjacent to the tribal agencies.

“It will reduce pressure on police,” he said.

Mr Yousafzai said warden system would be introduced in cities to cope with traffic problems, while traffic police would not stop drivers on the roads to check their vehicle documents.

“If any police official is found violating this order, he will be punished. In case, the driver breaks traffic law, only then the police can stop him or her for giving challan on the spot,” he said.

The minister said the cabinet approved right to information ordinance that would be promulgated within next two to three days.

He said for the purpose, the government would appoint the information commissioner to facilitate the general public.

Mr Yousafzai said the procedure and legal requirements for the formation of accountability commission would be finalised by July 15.

He said the government would introduce uniform education system from March 2014 across the province and working group would give its recommendation by July 25, while working groups had been set up to recommend reforms in local government and health departments.

The minister said the cabinet had decided to give free food to every patient and his attendants in the government hospitals.

“This will help some 12,000 patients and their attendants daily,” he said.

Mr Yousafzai said the government would grant autonomy to the tehsil and district hospitals. He said a special task force had been set up to work in power and energy sector. The minister said double carriageway from motorway junction to Hayatabad Town would be constructed, while parks in Peshawar would be rehabilitated properly. He said the local government would outsource the sanitation system of the provincial capital.

KP announces steps to undo thana culture - DAWN.COM