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KP govt proposes 17 power projects for inclusion in CPEC

* Hires consultant for ADB-funded 300MW Hydropower Project

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Minister for Energy and Power Muhammad Atif has said that the Provincial Government has proposed 17 Projects of 2825 Mega Watt for inclusion in China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

Due to zero tolerance policy on corruption, the KP Government becomes a role model for the Federal as well as other Provincial Governments and now they are following our policies which were very encouraging.

This was stated while chairing a review meeting of Energy and Power Department at Peshawar, on Tuesday.

The Minister maintained that there was conducive atmosphere for investors in all sectors and now they can invest in any field without any fear.

The Provincial Government also hired consultant for 300 Mega Watt BalakotHydel Power Project to be launched with the support of Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Similarly award of SharmaiHydel Power Project was given to joint venture of Sapphire Electric and Sino Hydro of China, he added.

The meeting beside others was also attended by the Secretary Energy and Power, Engineer Naeem Khan, CEO PEDO KP, Akbar Ayub, CEO KPOGCL Raziuddin and Chief Planning Officer, Syed Zainullah Shah.

The meeting was briefed in detail regarding ongoing, new and proposed projects of Energy and Power sector and certain decisions were taken in this respect.

The meeting was informed on progress on Jabori, Lawi, Karora, DaralKhwar and Mataltan Power Projects besides run of canal project and provision of Electricity to flood effected villages of Chitral District.

The meeting was told that 2 projects on run of canal Pilot Project would be completed by end of this month.

The meeting was further told that Soliarization of 8000 schools and 182 BHUs would be made in collaboration with ADB, while work on solarization of 6000 villages already approved.

The minister directed the authorities concerned to include 1000 mosques in the solarization projects too.

The Minister while directing the quarter concerned for accelerating work on Hydel Power Projects said that 150 out of 356 Micro Hydel Power Projects have been completed and ensure the completion of remaining projects by December 31, 2017 at all costs.

He said due to transparent policies of Pakistan Tehrik Insaf led KP Government, national as well as International investors coming to the Province for investment of billions of rupees in the province. He hoped that investment in the coming 1 and half year would reach billions of US Dollars.

 

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KP allocates ‘unprecedented’ funds for uplift projects

PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has allocated unprecedented funds for developmental projects and has reduced the gap of communication among the different parts of the province by rebuilding new roads.

This was stated by Akbar Ayub, Adviser to the Chief Minister for communication and infrastructure here on Sunday.

He said that all the roads of the province were made free from encroachments and major squares of the main cities were reconstructed and beautified to be at par with the modern cities of the world.

All major roads including ring roads and link roads of rural and urban set up represent the picture of the provincial developmental strategy, adding that social welfare of the people was the sole motive of the PTI and all its provincial leadership was committed for development in the region.

He said that the leaders and workers of other political parties were joining the PTI on the basis of its progressive moves and schemes in each government sector.

Education, health, employment of the youth and facilitation of best roads and other communications were at the centre place in the provincial level policy of the PTI which had reached to its conclusion he added.

Akbar Ayub praised the overall infrastructure policy of the present government and called it an ecological sound development in the province for the first time.

PTI leadership to launch plan to reunite party's workforce in KP: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader and president of the district Swat, Fazal-e-Hakeem hinted that the central leadership of the party would soon launch a comprehensive plan to reunite the work force of the party workers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).

According to an official handout Fazal-e-Hakeem who is serving as a Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) and District Advisory Development Committee (DADC) said that the force of PTI workers in the province could not be undermined.

All parts of the province and its political region would visit the leadership of the party in the coming days all and grievances of the workers would be eradicated.

He said that all estranged workers of the PTI were precious assets of the party and all their due demands and apprehensions would be met out soon and they should avoid invitations from other parties.

All selected cabinet representatives of the various regions of the province should utilise their energy for the unification of the party workers and those who failed would be ousted from serving any position in the party he added.

On the basis of workers' involvement and activeness in the political activities PTI would once again get a simple majority in the province and the process of development would continue for another five years.

 

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Best of luck to PTI for its efforts in serving justice

 

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I personally think that Imran Khan now become sick to become Prime Minister of Pakistan. Recently I have heard him statement, He really dis pointed me the way he talk about Cricket celebrities.

 

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I personally think that Imran Khan now become sick to become Prime Minister of Pakistan. Recently I have heard him statement, He really dis pointed me the way he talk about Cricket celebrities.

What cricket pathecher players has to do with politics of Pak ?i heard first time that u can become PM after critizing other pathecher players of PSL ?Patwarin BB ur at wrong place .

 

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KP's 'billion tree tsunami' successfully surging towards its goal

A view of a government-run tree nursery in Haripur, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.— Thomson Reuters Foundation
One of Pakistan's greenest provinces is becoming greener still: in just a year, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has added three-quarters of a billion new trees, as part of a "tree tsunami" aimed at reversing worsening forest loss.

The success on the ground is phenomenal.

"This is not just about planting trees but about changing attitudes," said Rab Nawaz, senior director of programmes for WWF-Pakistan, which has helped audit the tree-planting effort.

The Billion Tree Tsunami, which involves adding trees both by planting and natural regeneration, is backed by Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI).

It aims to turn around deforestation and increase the province's forested area by at least 2pc.

Years of tree felling have reduced Pakistan's forests to under 2pc of its land area, one of the lowest levels in the region, according to a 2015 UN Food and Agriculture Organisation report.

About 40pc of the country's remaining forests are in KP, where PTI's tree planting effort is expected to hit its billion-tree goal by the end of 2017.

Scaling up saplings

In preparation for the reforestation effort, the provincial government helped set up a network of tree nurseries across the province in 2016, providing loans and purchase agreements for tree saplings.

Altogether it has spent Rs11 billion ($110 million) on the effort, said Malik Amin Aslam, the chairman of the province's Green Growth Initiative.

About 13,000 government and private nurseries, in almost every district of the province, are now producing hundreds of thousands of saplings of local and imported tree varieties, including pines, walnuts and eucalyptus, Aslam told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

The nurseries have provided about 40pc of the new trees in KP; the remaining trees have come from natural regeneration in forests now put under protection, he said.

Many small-scale nurseries, producing up to 25,000 saplings, have been set up with cash advances and a guaranteed purchase agreement from the provincial government.

Such small nurseries can earn incomes of around Rs12-15,000 a month, a sizeable income for rural villagers, said Aslam.

An estimated 500,000 green jobs have been created through the effort, some of which have gone to rural women and unemployed youth, he said.

"People have become aware that forests are KP's precious resource," he added.

Aslam said the regeneration effort is being monitored by both the provincial forest department and WWF-Pakistan, working as an auditor.

Nawaz, of WWF, said he had just returned from three days looking at 2.5 million new trees in the province. He called the restoration an amazing achievement by the government's forest department and by local communities who are paid to plant trees.

"Whether you support PTI or not, no one can deny that this is an environmental, economic and social success for other provinces to follow," he said.

Better tech and enforcement

The project is being monitored using modern technology. Last week Khan launched the project's website, which includes GPS coordinates of all the plantations and a live tree counter.

"This is a project for the future of Pakistan and something I keep very close to my heart. It is not only helping KP by providing a green, breathable environment and green jobs but is also building up Pakistan's much-needed defence against the high climate vulnerability that it faces," the cricketer-turned-politician told the the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

"It significantly contributes to the global efforts for sequestering carbon and mitigating climate change", Khan added.

To protect its forests, the PTI government has also enforced a complete ban on the cutting and felling of trees in reserved forests.

The government says the activities of the powerful "timber mafia" have been curtailed through dismantling more than 600 illegal sawmills and arresting more than 300 timber cutters, as well as issuing heavy fines.

"Two of our forest guards have been killed in timber encounters while many have braved injuries," Aslam said.

"All of these steps have forced the timber mafia on to the back foot and delivered a clear political message of ‘zero tolerance' to the illicit cutting of wood."

Effort goes nationwide

The project has been recognised by the Bonn Challenge, a global partnership aiming to restore 150 million hectares of the world's deforested and degraded lands by 2020.

The KP government – the only province to register under the Bonn Challenge, officials said – has committed to restore 380,000 hectares of forests and has already achieved nearly 80pc of that goal, Aslam said.

The Bonn challenge website estimates an economic benefit of the reforestation effort at $121m for the province, in terms of carbon sequestration, better watershed improvement and future sustainable wood supplies.

The project has proven so popular that the federal government has now begun implementing its own "Green Pakistan Programme".

The aim of the programme is to plant 100 million trees all over the country over the next five years.

 

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Imran Khan attends final of PTI’s cricket tournament

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan on Friday witnessed final of the Insaf Super League cricket tournament.

Pictures circulating on social media websites showed a huge crowd at the closing ceremony of the ISL where the cricket turned politician delivered a speech, claiming the third edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) would be held under PTI government at the centre.

According to a statement issued by the PTI, Imran Khan was the chief guest on the occasion who was warmly welcomed by the crowd.

Khan drew criticism with his controversial remarks about the foreign players who attended the final of the second edition of the PSL in Lahore earlier this month.

The former cricket hero, who had earlier supported the idea of holding the final of the PSL in Pakistan, started criticizing the authorities once the Pakistan Cricket Board and the government finally decided to host the event in Punjab’s capital.

Khan called the decision as madness citing security concerns in the wake of deadly suicide bombings in Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa last month.

 

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is coming up with Bigger Chaanga Maangas in each and every region of KP

Billion Tree Tsunami progress reviewed by Imran Khan in Bannu today.


Billion Tree Tsunami campaign main focus have been the Southern areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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