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Cold climate in safe havens: K-P govt reluctant to let Afghans stay


PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has expressed reluctance over the extension on stay of Afghan refugees whose Proof of Registration (PoR) cards are to expire on June 23.

Talking to The Express Tribune, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Spokesperson Dunya Aslam Khan said UNHCR has sent a proposal to the Pakistani government for the refugees’ stay extension till 2017, and is awaiting an approval of the cabinet.

She added the tense political climate between Pakistan and Afghanistan, indeed, affects the displaced Afghans, but no such incidents have been reported by the refugees.

She said the recent Pak-Afghan border issues have not affected the activities of UNHCR and they have not received any complaints from refugees regarding the situation.

However, Kohat district administration has decided to order a ban on Afghan refugee businesses in the area after the PoR cards will expire on June 23.

A government official, requesting anonymity, said the K-P government has reviewed a new policy which concerns the businesses and other activities of Afghan refugees across the province.

According to the official, law-enforcement agencies have also encouraged for a ban on the businesses and activities of Afghans in their reports to the federal government, and expressed support for no more extensions.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 17th, 2016.

 

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Micro Hydel Power Plants to be increased to 1500 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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Salient features of KP Welfare Budget

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Rehabilitation of Khungi Bala Badminton Hall Completed at Dir Lower

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GoKP providing Solar Panels to Light the Rooms of Schools in KP

• 5566 Schools Solarised

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Peshawar Traffic Warden -- Record Fine recovered by Traffic Wardens

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60,000 fine on Traders in DI Khan

 

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Anti-Encroachment Operation in Haripur

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Mardan Sports Ground -- Rehabilitation completed by GoKP

 

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Major Operation to be launched against Beggars in Peshawar

 

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KP witnesses shift from private to govt schools as perceptions improve


PESHAWAR: Around 34,000 students who were previously attending private schools have left and joined government schools between September 2015 to March 2016 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).

This is according to a survey carried out in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in May 2016, which revealed that almost 66% of these parents took out their children from private schools of their own accord.

The key reasons for this movement are ever rising education related expenses in private schools, while government schools are now viewed as offering good quality teaching which is free of cost as well.

The Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has made tremendous efforts in the education sector which has improved parents perception about government schools across the province.

Around 96% of parents who have voluntarily moved their children from private schools to government schools, stated that they would send their next child to government school as well.

This movement of children from private to government schools is indicative of the trust parents are regaining in public schools.

It is an indication that the efforts and hard work to revive government schools are producing positive results.

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education had commissioned the global award-wining development agency Adam Smith International to conduct the survey.

Published on ARY News Website

 

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BISE Mardan: 76% students from govt schools pass exams

The Elementary and Secondary Education Department Peshawar has admitted that one in top 10 students is from government schools. However, it clarifies that 71% did not fail SSC exams as reported by The Express Tribune and published on June 20.

The secretary of the elementary education department said 76.1% students from government schools passed the SSC exams announced by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Mardan, showing an improvement of 1.44% from 2015 results of the board endorsing the positive steps of provincial government for improvement in primary education.

In arts group, the overall results improvement was 1.81%. More than 88.46% students passed their SSC exams in Government High School Pashtun Garhi against claimed 29.5%.

Only 23.9% students failed as a whole while in arts the rate of failure was 35.09% and not 71%.

The exams and markings are conducted by the government teachers and there is no discrimination between government and private schools. No PTC teacher is involved in markings. Private schools have shown their confidence in the results, the statement read.

The students who gained top three positions of BISE Mardan are from small and street schools and do not belong to any political leader. It is injustice with those talented students who were accused of getting high marks due to political background.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 22nd, 2016.


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Shaukat Khanum hospital expanding services

PESHAWAR: The Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is expanding its services to provide diagnostic and treatment facilities to more patients from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Fata and Afghanistan.

“About 25 per cent patients at SKMCH&RC Lahore belonged to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to which this facility was launched in December 29, 2015, in Peshawar,” Mohammad Tahir Aziz, chief operating officer of SKM Peshawar, told Dawn.

“We have examined 2,200 patients, of whom 200 were hospitalised during the last six months. Over 1,200 patients were admitted to the emergency ward and 2,000 underwent chemotherapy. The expansion programme is in progress,” he said

The health facility to offer treatment for all forms of cancer by 2018
Mr Aziz said that currently they were treating people for cancer of breast, intestine, Varian, esophagus and head and neck. “In phase-wised manner, we would be offering treatment for all forms of the disease by 2018 at a full-fledged 200-bed facility, which receives about 80 patients per day,” he added.

Mr Aziz said that all the patients got the same services while only 25 per cent paid for the services and 75 per cent got free treatment. “We take from rich and spend it on the poor,” he said.

The new patients first go to the clinic, which remains open round the-clock, and those accepted for treatment are asked if they want to pay or not and the ones opting for free services are referred to financial support services department to evaluate their economic status through standard criteria.

“Giving free cancer treatment in a third world country like Pakistan is very difficult, therefore, we want to help deserving patients. The patients also get free food,” said Mr Aziz.

Mr Aziz said that number of beds in emergency ward was being raised to 15. The children would get treatment after starting pediatric oncology at the hospital in August, he added.

The strength of five-bed intensive care unit (ICU) and as many bed chemo bay is also being increased to treat more patients. “We have got full-fledged pathological and radiology services with CT scan, MRI, X-ray, fluoroscopy, ultrasound, mammography scan which are also open to private patients referred by their doctors from other clinics and hospitals,” said Mr Aziz.

He said that all their departments were headed by four foreign-trained consultants, including two female, who ran clinical work at the hospital with the support of 325 staffers, including 15 doctors, 40 nurses and 30 paramedics.

“From next year, we are starting radiation and surgery departments after which none of the patients will have to visit Lahore,” said Mr Aziz.

Dr Kashif Sajjad, a consultant, said that they had set high standards of diagnostics and treatment in the area of cancer. “Apart from treatment, we have also a programme to scale up public awareness and prevent cancer,” he said.

“The SHMCH&RC works on principles of equality and quality. There’s no difference in treatment of paying and free patients. The physicians treat them equally,” said Dr Kashif.

Published in Dawn, June 22th, 2016

 

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2.2 million children, most from impoverished backgrounds, study under the Madrassa system. To label them all as terrorists, to leave them isolated without state support...is that going to lead us to peace? This exclusion and isolation narrative is another form of extremism.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153860001914527

 

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Imran announces health insurance scheme in KP

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has announced to launch Health Insurance Card Scheme in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

“The scheme will benefit 1.8 million families in the entire province,” Imran Khan said while addressing a news conference along with Chief Minister Pervez Khattak.

He said under the health insurance scheme, Rs 210,000 would be given to each family. He said despite financial constraints, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government increased health budget from Rs 8 billion to Rs 25 billion, which shows its sincerity.

The PTI chief said the government introduced exemplary reforms in the health sector. However, some people were putting obstacles in implementation of these reforms.

Speaking on this occasion, Pervez Khattak said the government would utilize all available resources for uplift of health sector.

He said the government introduced reforms with consultation of doctors and paramedical staff.

Source:- http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2016/06/27/national/imran-announces-health-insurance-scheme-in-kp/

Source: https://defence.pk/threads/imran-announces-health-insurance-scheme-in-kp.436919/#ixzz4CsByqNYe

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KP’s climate challenge

Pakistan is considered one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change — with particular threats to water, energy and food security, according to a recent report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)-Pakistan. In fact, the UNDP’s country director says that the economic losses faced by Pakistan due to climate change are significantly higher as compared to terrorism: “Pakistan may be facing $6 billion losses due to climate change whereas losses due to terrorism may be around $1b”. Yet, despite all these losses and the very real threats of glaciers melting, annual devastating floods and damages to crops due to erratic rains and droughts in the near future, most of the country’s political leaders are still not talking about climate change at the national level.

The last time PM Nawaz Sharif spoke about climate change at any length was at the Paris Summit back in December 2015; PML(N)-appointed minister for climate change, Zahid Hamid, is now also the law minister, and he is too busy with the Panama leaks to bother about climate change. While the last PPP government, to their credit, did come up with formulating the comprehensive National Climate Change Policy, since then they have largely been quiet on the topic.

The only major exception in the political arena seems to be Imran Khan, chairman of PTI, who is not only talking about climate change but is also increasing spending on trying to tackle it. In fact, the UNDP report appreciated the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province’s efforts in making substantial increases in climate-related spending. In this year’s provincial budget, the KP government has allocated Rs2b for environment and forests.

Despite planting trees and moving to protect forests, the KP government need to tackle brick kilns and polluting vehicles
Since coming to power in 2013, the PTI-led KP government has, in fact, focused on what it calls its “Green Growth Initiative”, which aside from their Billion Tree Tsunami project, also entails the creation of management plans for six national parks and the installation of 365 micro hydel projects in various districts of KP. Last week, Imran Khan gave a press conference in Islamabad exclusively dedicated to climate change and green growth. He actually refused to answer any questions about Panama leaks as he wanted to devote the time allocated to speaking only about forests, protecting the environment, creating renewable energy and how all this ties to our future well-being.

Addressing the jam-packed news conference, Imran Khan pointed out that the increase in global warming is causing the rapid melting of glaciers, which will have an adverse effect on our future water needs. Pakistan can try to protect its water resources and contribute to mitigation by planting trees and protecting its forests. “KP has taken important steps to save future generations from the dangerous effects of environment changes”, he explained, detailing how the KP government plans to increase the forest cover in the province from 22pc in 2013 to up to 27pc by 2018 through the billion tree tsunami and the creation of new national parks in forested areas like the Palas Valley in Kohistan.

Imran Khan is currently touring these “undiscovered” valleys of KP in a helicopter, scouting places that could be developed into hill stations, national parks or resorts for tourists. Three new national park sites have already been scoped and will be established this year. He plans to continue his travels in the next two years, to spot and develop the maximum number of places that will not only attract tourists, but will also benefit the local communities of these remote areas. Documentaries on his trips are being filmed by his media head, Faisal Javed Khan, and the first film will feature the picturesque Kumrat Valley in Upper Dir District of KP.

At the Paris Summit, their Billion Tree Tsunami project had shown enough success to be recognised and registered with the Bonn Challenge, which is a global partnership aiming to restore 150m hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded lands by 2020. According to Imran Khan, “40pc work of the Billion Tree Tsunami Project in KP has been completed” and that an independent monitoring organisation, WWF-Pakistan, has found that the planted saplings have a survival rate of 85pc. In addition, he declared that the 365 small hydel projects initiated at the village level in KP to provide clean energy would be increased in number to 1,000 in the coming years. In his view, the federal government’s proposed coal power plants will only “destroy Pakistan’s environment. Why are we not exploring the 50,000 MW potential of clean hydro energy that we have in our north?”

Imitation, they say, is the best form of flattery; despite criticising the Billion Tree Tsunami earlier the federal government, in its new budget, has announced the “Green Pakistan Programme”, a forest and wildlife protection and conservation programme, allocating an amount of Rs 2b (for two financial years 2016-17 and 2017-18). Under the directives of PM Nawaz Sharif, a total of 105m trees will be planted across the country.

Imran Khan’s efforts to protect the environment and highlight climate change in Pakistan are already paying dividends. Of course, a lot more needs to be done. Peshawar has been ranked amongst the worst cities in the world in terms of air pollution, and the KP government needs to tackle this urgently by taking action against brick kilns and polluting vehicles.

Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, June 26th, 2016

Source: https://defence.pk/threads/kp’s-climate-challenge.436918/#ixzz4CsC8cNqc

 

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Haripur Bypass

Project Detail


Project Length : 24.480 KM


Right of Way : 24.384 meters / 80 feet


carriageway width: 7.3 meter Asphaltic concrete


Treated Shoulders: 2 meter on each side


Bridges : 8 Nos @ 1Flyover 4 Interchanges 2 Rivers and 1 Nullah

bridge


Culverts : 35 Nos


Cattle Creeps: 14 Nos


Design Speed : 80-100 KM/h

Commencement : May 2016


Completion Date: August 2019 (39 Months)

 

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800 KW micro hydro in Baroghil near completion. 45 new micro hydro plants to become operational in Chitral end 2016

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https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1071298212936770

جب ایک پولیس افسر نے پنجاب میں ایک MPA کے خلاف پرچہ کاٹا تو اس کے ساتھ کیا ہوا اور جب اسی افسر نے یہی کام خیبر پختونخوا میں کیا تو پھر کیا ہوا ؟ جانئے خیبر پختونخوا کے دبنگ DPO سے -

 

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Digital governance: E-payment system for traffic challans in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: The provincial government has hired the services of a private company to open desks for the collection of traffic challans in various areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s capital city, in order to facilitate citizens and transporters.

The PTI government, in collaboration with a private company A2Z E-payments, has established an integrated electronic payment facility in Peshawar to improve the performance of government departments especially the traffic management machinery.

The company’s CEO, Shakir Ullah said the purpose behind the e-payments was to improve public sector efficiency and provide better services to citizens.

According to him, E-payments systems could reduce corruption, increase access to information, reduce the need for in-person contact with public officials, ensure equal treatment by government officials and the availability of government services and complaints cells to citizens 24 hours a day.

In KP, this system has resulted in the increase of revenue, the control of leakages and the equitable distribution of gross revenues.

A2Z E-Payments has joined hands under a public private partnership with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa traffic police to introduce the E-Payments system. Initially people in districts Peshawar, Abbottabad, Mansehra, Haripur, Mardan, Nowshera, Charsadda, Swabi, Swat, Kohat, Bannu and Karak along with their respective highways will be able to avail this service.

 

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Solar Powered Tourist Huts being installed at Sharan Forest Kaghan Valley by Tourism Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to facilitate all the Domestic, National & InterNational Tourists with State-of-the-Art facilities which will help in transforming Khyber Pakhtunkhwa into a Tourist Hub of Pakistan & this will help in improving the economy of the region

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This Insaf card scheme will provide free health services to 50% population of KPK which is poor.

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Green Belts increasing the beauty of KPK