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Balancing accounts: PAC orders probe into fiscal irregularities
PESHAWAR: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the provincial assembly ordered a probe into financial irregularities in the departments of sports, Communication and Works (C&W) as well as the...
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King of the jungle: Armed force part of proposed legislation to guard wildlife
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Wildlife and Biodiversity Bill 2014 proposes reforms in a sector largely neglected for decades. The draft was tabled in the provincial assembly on November 24, and...
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Slipping through: Govt admits oil and gas pilferage worth billions from Karak
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government on Friday admitted pilferage amounting to Rs15 to 20 billion from an oil and gas pipeline in Karak district. The issue was raised on a point of order in...
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Worth your time?: Delayed proceedings become norm in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa...
PESHAWAR: The rhetoric of change has become the talk of the town; from people on the streets to primetime television, the mantra has taken current affairs by storm. However, the ones playing the tune...
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Keep walking: JUI-F storms out of assembly session over CM’s remarks
PESHAWAR: Opposition members staged a walkout from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly session on Monday over Chief Minister Pervez Khattak’s remarks from a day earlier. Khattak had said the Jamiat...
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Time is money: Health dept to fill posts in lieu of sluggish commission
PESHAWAR: A day after the opposition walked out of the provincial legislature, MPAs from both sides of the aisle set aside their differences and sat down to discuss vacant posts in the health sector....
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Double the perks: DDAC chairpersons allocated Rs4.14m each under budget
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government made hefty allocations of Rs103.5 million to the chairpersons of 25 district development advisory committees (DDAC) across the province for the year...
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Clamping down: Zardari warns party leadership to set the house in order
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari has forewarned the provincial leadership of the party in subtle words to set things in order before he intervenes. Insiders...
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In protest: Opposition parties walk out of K-P Assembly
PESHAWAR: Opposition parties in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly staged a walkout from the house on Monday to protest the registration of cases against JUI-F workers in Karak and Kohat under the...
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The sidelined hero: Malala: revered worldwide, ignored by K-P’s lawmakers
PESHAWAR: Malala Yousafzai, the youngest ever Nobel laureate, will accept the coveted peace prize on Wednesday (today). However, the legislative assembly of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), her home...
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Watchdog: New body keeps check on government schools in K-P
PESHAWAR: An independent monitoring unit (IMU) has inspected over 95% of government schools in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa since it was established earlier this year. This was shared by the Elementary and...
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Martyrs for peace: ‘Reopening schools a strong message to militants’
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Sirajul Haq urged the government to re-open schools in the province. Speaking at the ‘Martyrs for peace’ conference arranged by his party at Nishtar Hall to pay...
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Back in session: K-P Assembly condemns Army Public School massacre
PESHAWAR: A unanimous resolution condemning the Taliban attack at Army Public School (APS) was passed by the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Friday, urging the federal government to take advantage of...
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Safekeeping: Security for VIPs costs K-P a whopping Rs278.9m per year
PESHAWAR: While many in the general public evade regular militant bombings and assaults mostly by sheer luck, politicians have a helping hand. Around 653 security personnel guard more than 250 VIPs...
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Bringing into the fold: K-P Assembly seeks superior courts’ extension to FATA
PESHAWAR: Through a unanimous resolution passed on Monday, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly asked the federal government to make necessary amendments to the Constitution to extend the jurisdiction of...
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Posthumous acknowledgment: A year later, K-P Assembly honours Aitzaz Hasan
PESHAWAR: It has taken the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly exactly one year to acknowledge the sacrifice of brave Hangu teenager Aitzaz Hasan who embraced a suicide bomber on January 6, 2014 and saved...
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Timber worth Rs6 billion wasting away in K-P
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) forest department fears that harvested timber worth billions will go to waste due to the government’s ban on its transportation to the markets since 2013....
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And the most valuable is…: The rich, the poor and the lawmakers
PESHAWAR: It seems Chief Minister Pervez Khattak is the richest of the provincial assembly’s lawmakers, while his coalition partner Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq still remains among the...
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Vertical construction: Official residences limited to one kanal of land
PESHAWAR: The government has decided no official residence will be built on land exceeding one kanal. This was announced at the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly session on Friday. Responding to a...
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Business on the side: Lawmakers to scrutinise Conflict of Interest Bill
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly Select Committee on the K-P Conflict of Interest (CoI) Bill, 2014 decided on Saturday that parliamentary leaders and the secretary and minister for law...
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