PESHAWAR: Inspector General of Police Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Dr. Sanaullah Abbasi on Friday awarded prized to the officials of Traffic Highways Police from Malakand, Mardan and Hazara regions for their.
KHAR: A jirga of elders on Tuesday brokered a ceasefire between the two rival groups in Nawagai Bazaar in Bajaur tribal district on Tuesday.Awami National Party leader Sheikh Jahanzada, Qazi Abdul.
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March 6, 2021
MANSEHRA: An official said on Friday that the district administration had completed the cost estimate survey of the land being acquired for the multi-purpose Manchora dam in Oghi and the land owners would be given compensation soon.
The dam is being built in Oghi with an estimated cost of over Rs1 billion. âWe have submitted an exact estimated cost of the land being acquired for the canal and dam separately. And if the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Irrigation Department releases the land compensation money to owners, the hurdles in its execution would accordingly be addressed,â Deputy Commissioner Dr Qasim Ali Khan told reporters here.
The Peshawar High Court has directed the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) to respond to three petitions seeking tuition fee concession for private school students during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. APP/File
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has directed the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) to respond to three petitions seeking tuition fee concession for private school students during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
A bench consisting of Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Syed M Attique Shah fixed April 8 for hearing final arguments on the petitions filed by Iftikhar Hussain and several other parents of private school students seeking directions for the Private Schools Regulatory Authority (PSRA) to ask all private educational institutions to charge only their ‘operational costs’ instead of full tuition fee during the pandemic.
Controversy arises over remaining work of Bus Rapid Transit
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February 19, 2021
PESHAWAR: A controversy has arisen over the remaining work of Bus Rapid Transit at Peshawar. The JV Chinese and local contractors have refused to continue work on the BRT corridor and three mega shopping plazas (depots) worth Rs 10 billion. Construction work on all three depots has been stalled for months.
However, The Peshawar Development Authority has decided to replace the JV contractors to complete the remaining work of the PTI flagship project. Asian Development Bank has approved the assignment agreement to hand over the remaining work to subcontractors.