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This is the Agricultural City, not a market. Many shops are being occupied as IDPs settle down in their respective areas and start new businesses. They've to start from scratch, which requires an initial investment and it'll take sometime before they are in that position. Give KP a few more years and Insallah you'll see tremendous growth in Agricultural and Minning sectors.
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83 MW Kurram Tangi Dam Under Construction in North Waziristan
Salient Features.....................
Dam Height 322 ft
Gross Storage 1.20 MAF
Live Storage 0.90 MAF
Installed Capacity 83.4 MW (350 Gwh)
New Command Area (84,380 acres)
(Sheratalla Canal 12,300 acres, Spaira Ragha Canal 4,080 acres, Thal Canal 68,000 acres)
Salient Features.....................
Dam Height 322 ft
Gross Storage 1.20 MAF
Live Storage 0.90 MAF
Installed Capacity 83.4 MW (350 Gwh)
New Command Area (84,380 acres)
(Sheratalla Canal 12,300 acres, Spaira Ragha Canal 4,080 acres, Thal Canal 68,000 acres)
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3rd unit of Golan Gol hydro project to start production from August 2018:
The third unit of Golan Gol Hydel Power Project in district Chitral will start production by August this year.
In an exclusive interview with Radio Pakistan Peshawar correspondent, Project Director Golan Gol Hydro Power Project Muhammad Javed Afridi said the project will be completed at a cost of about thirty billion rupees.
The first two units of the project have already been completed.
With the completion of the third unit, the power project will produce one hundred and eight megawatt electricity.
The third unit of Golan Gol Hydel Power Project in district Chitral will start production by August this year.
In an exclusive interview with Radio Pakistan Peshawar correspondent, Project Director Golan Gol Hydro Power Project Muhammad Javed Afridi said the project will be completed at a cost of about thirty billion rupees.
The first two units of the project have already been completed.
With the completion of the third unit, the power project will produce one hundred and eight megawatt electricity.
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Green gold’: Pakistan plants hundreds of millions of trees
In 2015 and 2016 some 16,000 labourers planted more than 900,000 fast-growing eucalyptus trees in Heroshah
HEROSHAH: The change is drastic: around the region of Heroshah, previously arid hills are now covered with forest as far as the horizon. In northwestern Pakistan, hundreds of millions of trees have been planted to fight deforestation.
In 2015 and 2016 some 16,000 labourers planted more than 900,000 fast-growing eucalyptus trees at regular, geometric intervals in Heroshah–and the titanic task is just a fraction of the effort across the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
“Before it was completely burnt land. Now they have green gold in their hands,” commented forest manager Pervaiz Manan as he displayed pictures of the site previously, when only sparse blades of tall grass interrupted the monotonous landscape.
The new trees will reinvigorate the area’s scenic beauty, act as a control against erosion, help mitigate climate change, decrease the chances of floods and increase the chances of precipitation, says Manan, who oversaw the re-vegetation of Heroshah.
Residents also see them as an economic boost–which, officials hope, will deter them from cutting the new growth down to use as firewood in a region where electricity can be sparse.
“Now our hills are useful, our fields became useful,” says driver Ajbir Shah. “It is a huge benefit for us.”
Further north, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat, many of the high valleys were denuded by the Pakistani Taliban during their reign from 2006 to 2009.
Now they are covered in pine saplings. “You can’t walk without stepping on a seedling,” smiles Yusufa Khan, another forest department worker.
The Heroshah and Swat plantations are part of the “Billion Tree Tsunami”, a provincial government programme that has seen a total of 300 million trees of 42 different species planted across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A further 150 million plants were given to landowners, while strict forest regeneration measures have allowed the regrowth of 730 million trees–roughly 1.2 billion new trees in total, the programme’s management says.
Kamran Hussain, a manager of the Pakistani branch of the World Wildlife Fund, who conducted an independent audit of the project, says their figures showed slightly less–but still above target at 1.06 billion trees.
“We are 100% confident that the figure about the billion trees is correct,” he told AFP, highlighting the transparency of the process. “Everything is online. Everyone has access to this information.”
The programme has been praised by the head of the Swiss-based International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a green NGO, which called it a “true conservation success story”.
Initially mocked for what critics said were unrealistic objectives, it is a welcome change to the situation elsewhere in the country.
Authorities say just 5.2% of the country is covered by forest, against the 12% recommended by the United Nations.
Just one big tree remains in the poverty-stricken village of Garhi Bit in the southern province of Sindh, shading its small mosque.
It has stood there for a century, locals say.
“Before, there were big trees, many kinds of them,” says Dad Mohammad, a 43-year-old farmer.
“But they started to dry because of the lack of water, so we cut them,” he says, pointing to hundreds of metres of cultivated land where previously there stood a forest.
More than 60% of the forests lining Sindh’s riverbanks have disappeared in the last 60 years, mainly due to river depletion and massive logging during the 1980s, says Riaz Ahmed Wagan, of the provincial forest department.
“It is a disaster,” he says, adding that forestry remains the lowest priority on the agenda of the provincial governments.
The Billion Tree Tsunami, which cost the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government $169 million, started in November 2014. Officials say they are still implementing maintenance safeguards such as fire protection, with the project due to be completed in June 2020.
In early 2017, the federal government announced its own Green Pakistan Project, which aims to plant 100 million trees in five years across the country.
Billion-tree tsunami — confronting falsehood
It ranges from “legislative reforms” to “wildlife protection”, according to its leader Ibrahim Khan, who works under the authority of the ministry for climate change. More than a quarter of the work was done by the end of April this year, he says.
Khan has vowed to make the environment an election issue, and to plant a total of 10 billion trees across the country. “Every child in Pakistan should be aware of the environmental issue which, until now, has been a non-issue,” he told AFP.
But it is yet to be seen whether his ambitions will translate into votes.
environmental lawyer and activist Ahmad Rafay Allam says that in a country where the electorate is often swayed by infrastructure projects rather than the environment, he has doubts.
In 2015 and 2016 some 16,000 labourers planted more than 900,000 fast-growing eucalyptus trees in Heroshah
HEROSHAH: The change is drastic: around the region of Heroshah, previously arid hills are now covered with forest as far as the horizon. In northwestern Pakistan, hundreds of millions of trees have been planted to fight deforestation.
In 2015 and 2016 some 16,000 labourers planted more than 900,000 fast-growing eucalyptus trees at regular, geometric intervals in Heroshah–and the titanic task is just a fraction of the effort across the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
“Before it was completely burnt land. Now they have green gold in their hands,” commented forest manager Pervaiz Manan as he displayed pictures of the site previously, when only sparse blades of tall grass interrupted the monotonous landscape.
The new trees will reinvigorate the area’s scenic beauty, act as a control against erosion, help mitigate climate change, decrease the chances of floods and increase the chances of precipitation, says Manan, who oversaw the re-vegetation of Heroshah.
Residents also see them as an economic boost–which, officials hope, will deter them from cutting the new growth down to use as firewood in a region where electricity can be sparse.
“Now our hills are useful, our fields became useful,” says driver Ajbir Shah. “It is a huge benefit for us.”
Further north, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat, many of the high valleys were denuded by the Pakistani Taliban during their reign from 2006 to 2009.
Now they are covered in pine saplings. “You can’t walk without stepping on a seedling,” smiles Yusufa Khan, another forest department worker.
The Heroshah and Swat plantations are part of the “Billion Tree Tsunami”, a provincial government programme that has seen a total of 300 million trees of 42 different species planted across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A further 150 million plants were given to landowners, while strict forest regeneration measures have allowed the regrowth of 730 million trees–roughly 1.2 billion new trees in total, the programme’s management says.
Kamran Hussain, a manager of the Pakistani branch of the World Wildlife Fund, who conducted an independent audit of the project, says their figures showed slightly less–but still above target at 1.06 billion trees.
“We are 100% confident that the figure about the billion trees is correct,” he told AFP, highlighting the transparency of the process. “Everything is online. Everyone has access to this information.”
The programme has been praised by the head of the Swiss-based International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a green NGO, which called it a “true conservation success story”.
Initially mocked for what critics said were unrealistic objectives, it is a welcome change to the situation elsewhere in the country.
Authorities say just 5.2% of the country is covered by forest, against the 12% recommended by the United Nations.
Just one big tree remains in the poverty-stricken village of Garhi Bit in the southern province of Sindh, shading its small mosque.
It has stood there for a century, locals say.
“Before, there were big trees, many kinds of them,” says Dad Mohammad, a 43-year-old farmer.
“But they started to dry because of the lack of water, so we cut them,” he says, pointing to hundreds of metres of cultivated land where previously there stood a forest.
More than 60% of the forests lining Sindh’s riverbanks have disappeared in the last 60 years, mainly due to river depletion and massive logging during the 1980s, says Riaz Ahmed Wagan, of the provincial forest department.
“It is a disaster,” he says, adding that forestry remains the lowest priority on the agenda of the provincial governments.
The Billion Tree Tsunami, which cost the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government $169 million, started in November 2014. Officials say they are still implementing maintenance safeguards such as fire protection, with the project due to be completed in June 2020.
In early 2017, the federal government announced its own Green Pakistan Project, which aims to plant 100 million trees in five years across the country.
Billion-tree tsunami — confronting falsehood
It ranges from “legislative reforms” to “wildlife protection”, according to its leader Ibrahim Khan, who works under the authority of the ministry for climate change. More than a quarter of the work was done by the end of April this year, he says.
Khan has vowed to make the environment an election issue, and to plant a total of 10 billion trees across the country. “Every child in Pakistan should be aware of the environmental issue which, until now, has been a non-issue,” he told AFP.
But it is yet to be seen whether his ambitions will translate into votes.
environmental lawyer and activist Ahmad Rafay Allam says that in a country where the electorate is often swayed by infrastructure projects rather than the environment, he has doubts.
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Bacha Khan International Airport
Why did they name it after Bacha Khan?
