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Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Governor Shaukatullah Khan promulgated the K-P Deserving Widows and Special Persons Welfare Foundation Ordinance 2013, stated a handout issued by the provincial social welfare department on Tuesday.

Following the promulgation of the new law, a new welfare foundation will be established under the auspices of the social welfare department.

“The foundation would be an independent statutory body to be run by a Board of Governors consisting of a chairperson and 10 members. A majority of the members of the board shall be eminent persons from civil society,” the handout read.

Aside from performing other functions, the board will be responsible for approving cases of deserving widows and differently abled people for financial assistance grants. The board shall also take steps for the generation of resources for the foundation from within the country and abroad, reads the document.

Initially, the provincial government will allocate Rs500 million for the foundation, while philanthropists from within the country and abroad would be asked to join in for generating funds.

According to the handout, Rs30,000 per month will be given to widows, while Rs25,000 per month will be given to people with disabilities.

As per the statistics collected by the social welfare department, there are 69,000 impoverished widows and an equal number of differently abled people in the K-P, states the handout. In the first year of its operation, 14,000 widows and 13,000 people with disabilities will benefit from the scheme, while more will continue to benefit over the years.

A spokesperson for the department was confident that philanthropists will generously contribute for a noble cause. He further added the affairs of the foundation will be transparent and open to public scrutiny.

The official elaborated those people receiving aid from zakat funds shall also be eligible to receive assistance from the foundation because the Guzara allowance (Rs1,000) paid monthly to widows from zakat is too meagre in view of current inflation.

The foundation shall take care of non-Muslim and Muslim widows and persons with disabilities, added the spokesperson.

K-P promulgates Widows and Special Persons Welfare Foundation Ordinance – The Express Tribune

I am most happy about the Non muslim Part aswell.

Our minorities are our Top responsibilities.we should treat them better than ourselves

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KP raises police’s pay to match Punjab

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Wednesday announced to increase the salaries and allowances of the provincial police to bring them on a par with those of Punjab’s policemen.

The announcement was made by Chief Minister Pervez Khattak during an award distribution ceremony at the Chief Minister’s House while responding to Inspector General of Police Nasir Khan Durrani’s complaint about police’s low salaries and increasing problems.

On the occasion, the chief minister also announced additional allowance for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) staff for handling sniffing dogs in the fight against terrorism.

Mr Khattak appreciated police for rendering great sacrifices to protect public life and property and said the government would fully support them in hour of need.

“We will bring the salaries of our police on a par with those of Punjab police with immediate effect,” he said.

Earlier, the inspector general of police said more than 750 police officers and personnel had laid down their lives fighting terrorism and that the number was on the rise.

He, however, said it was a matter of great concern that despite rendering so many sacrifices, policemen were getting less salary than their counterparts in Punjab.

Mr Durrani complained that policemen were given no extra allowance.

He distributed cash awards and commendation certificates among 30 police officers and personnel, who besides repulsing terrorist attacks on various police stations and checkposts in the province.

A fresh police constable in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is paid Rs17,000 a month, while the monthly salary of his counterpart in Punjab is Rs20,000.

An official of the account branch of Rawalpindi police said the fresh recruit to the force in the province was paid Rs20,000 every month but he was not entitled to draw other allowances.

It is learned that newly-recruited constable in Balochistan is paid Rs14000 a month and after training, the amount of money goes up to Rs17000 per month.

Details of Sindh police’s salary and allowances are not known.

KP raises police?s pay to match Punjab - DAWN.COM

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Italian town invites Peshawar to become twin city

PESHAWAR: Agerola, a commune in the Naples province of Italy and the ancestral town of Peshawar’s Italian governor under Sikh rule General Paolo Avitabile, has expressed its desire to enter into a twin city affiliation with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) capital.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/645969/sister-act-italian-town-invites-peshawar-to-become-twin-city/

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A college only for Women,Thats Great

Swabi to have women?s varsity, medical college - DAWN.COM

Swabi to have women’s varsity, medical college



SWABI, Nov 29: The provincial government will build a medical college and women’s university in Swabi district to promote higher education, said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar while addressing a function in the University of Swabi (UoS) here on Friday.

He said that it was essential for Pakhtuns to get higher education so they could face the modern day challenges. He said that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government was giving priority to restoration of peace, education and health.

Mr Qaisar said that the medical college had been named after great Pakhtun leader Gaju Khan. He said that the government had also planned to strengthen academic position of the UoS among all universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

However, he did not speak about the unrecognised status of the university. The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan has not yet recognised the UoS, which is creating doubts in the minds of its students.

“The government has given Rs500 million to the University of Swabi for acquiring land and completing other basic requirements. We would provide more funds to the varsity,” he said.

Mr Qaisar said that the women’s university in Swabi would facilitate the girls from Buner, Mardan, Nowshera and lower parts of Malakand division. “We have also been striving to build another cadet college besides Kernel Sher Cadet College in the district,” he said.

The provincial government has also planned to build an education city in the district. “In this connection we have already signed a memorandum of understanding with the British Council,” he said.

Prof Noor Jehan, vice-chancellor of the UoS, spoke about the curricular and co-curricular activities of the university and its performance since its establishment.

Abdul Wali Khan University vice-chancellor Dr Ihsan Ali said that the establishment of several universities and colleges during the last few years had made it clear that the government was giving due importance to education.

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Female Education is must.

If the mother is educated,Than indirectly the whole family will be education

KPK Government giving scholarships to students having 80% attendance to encourage girls.

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Sir Imran Khan at Ummah Academy for Orphans, Nowshera

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Mass transit system: Metro bus project to be funded by Turkish company – The Express Tribune

PESHAWAR: Yardimeli, a Turkish-based organisation, expressed interest in financing Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) metro bus project during a meeting held between the company’s delegation and the transport department on Wednesday.

Speaking at the occasion, Adviser to Chief Minister Yasin Khalil, who chaired the meeting, said Turkey and Pakistan enjoyed friendly relations and expressed hope that Turkey would also invest in various other sectors in K-P.

“Turkey can easily create a place for itself in the Pakistani market as compared to Europe,” said Khalil.

The official further said the provincial government was committed to overcoming the various traffic problems faced by commuters in the province and introducing reforms in traffic laws.

“Peshawar’s traffic has been divided along various routes and the most important one was named Route 1. The metro bus will run along this route,” announced Khalil, adding a mass transit scheme will be launched from Pabbi to Hayatabad which would provide easy access to Peshawar for other districts.

Yardimeli head Ilyas Kaymaz assured all-out support to the K-P government for the initiation of the metro bus project.

Meanwhile, Khalil also formed a six-member committee comprising three officials from the transport department and three officials from Yardimeli which will prepare a feasibility report of the much-anticipated project in the next two weeks.

This is a very Good news,

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This is good work please keep the thread active I will post some things as well, keep this one running good things happening in kpk.

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Meeting increasing needs: MOL Pakistan to double its investment in K-P – The Express Tribune

MOL Pakistan will double its production of hydrocarbon extractions in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) to help meet the energy shortfall, address low gas pressure and increase revenue.

MOL Pakistan Managing Director (MD) Ferenc Juhasz, Political Adviser to MOL Pakistan Ali Murtaza Abbas and Ambassador of Hungary Istvan Szabo called on K-P Chief Minister (CM) Pervez Khattak at Pakhtunkhwa House, Islamabad on Friday, and made the assurances.

The officials of MOL Pakistan informed the CM at the moment two drilling rigs are operational and two more will be installed in Karak and Hangu districts.

MD Ferenc Juhasz discussed the prospect of increasing the exploration of oil and gas resources and said they would continue to contribute to the improvement of skills and transfer of technology to K-P.

The CM apprised the officials of difficulties faced by the province’s domestic users because of low gas pressure and appreciated the company for investing in the province’s oil and gas sector.

MOL Pakistan’s central processing facility was commissioned on October 28, 2009 in Karak and presently has a processing capacity of 300 million standard cubic feet per day and 6,600 barrel per day of gas and oil, respectively.

In 2013, the company’s discoveries of Mami-Khel 2 and Maramzai 2 gas fields also came online with support from the Ministry of Petroleum and provincial government.

Furthermore, under the banner of The Citizen Foundation (TCF), it has been running three schools in Gurguri, Karak equipped with modern facilities. The company also contributes about $1.6 million for the welfare of communities in Pakistan.

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A university is being built in karak but still there is no University in Lakki marwat yet,

The Govt should look into this matter and sanction money for a university and uplift of Lakki marwat city.

Universities are being built in most of the major cities of KPK but still not in Lakki marwat.

I hope PTI govt look into this matter

Here in Bannu
We have
*Main DHQ with 1000 bed capacity
*children and women hospital with 450bed capacity
*Khalifa Gul nawaz General and Cancer hospital built with modern infra with 400 Bed capacity
*Civil hospital(Or a similar name) with 350 Bed capacity
*CMH with unknown bed capacity
*A Modern University Built in 2006 Under 1600kanal land
*Medical college For male/Female with 92 MBBS seats (including 6 for Afghanistan people)
*Engineering College as a Branch of UET peshawar having merit only 2nd to UET peshawar main branch in Civil engineering.Also offer other courses like electrical/Software engineering
*We have Degree College No 2 with the last merit Position for Pre medical student at 881 marks,Putting it among the top in KPK.
*airport aswell but not operational due to security threats
*Durrani public School

And many more such to mention

But in Lakki marwat there are still nothing as such.
We need to develop Lakki marwat,I feel for the local Marwat pashtuns of lakki marwat

The most important steps should be

*Atleast a 1000Bed hospital
*A university like Gomal or Bannu university
*Medical college
*Engineering college branch under UET
*Steps to increase primary education

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PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Parvez Khattak has said that the province is endowed with rich natural resources of oil, gas and hydro potentials and his government will make every effort to get maximum output from these sources.

Presiding over a high-level meeting held at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa House in Islamabad, the chief minister approved restructuring the administrative framework of government owned oil & gas company and Pakhtunkhwa Hydel-Power Development Organisation (PHYDO). The restructuring will facilitate quick decision-making and hiring of key technical and administrative human capital on market based salaries. The KP government will also put sizable investment in its financial obligations for achieving the physical goals and attracting ample foreign direct investment (FDI) in the three sectors of oil, gas and hydropower.

Earlier representatives from MOL Pakistan Oil & gas Co led by Ali Murtaza Abbas, political advisor, met with the chief minister and presented a brief on the company’s performance in KPK. MOL Group a leading integrated oil & gas group in Central & Eastern Europe headquartered in Hungary, is a market leader in each of its core activities in Hungary, Slovakia & Croatia.

MOL Pakistan as operator of Tal Block has six successive discoveries to its credit. These are Manzala, Makori-1Mami-Khel-1, Maramzai-1, Margalla and Karak. Leasing of a few sites is yet in the process of approval at Federal Government. The Chief Minister was informed that the company is producing 306 mmscftd which is sufficient to meet the requirements of KPK, while the oil exploration is 15500 barrels per day. MOL has set up new plant starting production of 300 MTons of LPG in early next year. This will give a substantial relief to the LPG consumers.

Pervez Khattak appreciated various social responsibilities being met by MOL Pakistan. The participants of the meeting were informed that MOL was awarding merit scholarship for talented & deserving students, providing medical services and organising free medical & eye camps at various locations of area of operations. It has also contributed to a large number of water supply & purification scheme & sanitation in various villages and construction & improvement of Infrastructure.

It is also involved in construction of schools and provision of examination halls, construction of roads & pavements, construction of basic health units & medical wards, construction of mosques etc. With regard to environmental protection, the Company has launched plantation campaign in collaboration with district government authorities.

All-out efforts to fully utilise KPK natural resources

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KPK women police

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KPK Achieves NFC Revenue Collection Target with other three Provinces Failing


ISLAMABAD: As provinces are finding it difficult to achieve the revenue collection target set in 2010, the National Finance Commission (NFC) has warned that it would be impossible to achieve the 15pc tax-to-GDP ratio in the terminal year of the award (2014-15), if the provinces continue with the same trend.


According to the second biannual monitoring report on the implementation of NFC award, Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan could not achieve the revenue collection target set by the NFC since July 1, 2010, the first year of the award.

These provinces remain far behind in their quest for achieving the target set by the NFC of 15pc tax-to-GDP ratio. The report was submitted by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar to the just-concluded sessions of Senate and the National Assembly this month.

Against the proposed target of 42.14pc of tax-to-GDP ratio, Punjab was able to gain 30.2pc; Sindh’s revenue growth was minus 17.4pc against the target of 36.44pc and Balochistan recorded minus 5.0pc growth against the target of 1.03pc.

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa was, however, able to achieve 5.9pc growth against the recommended tax-to-GDP growth of 3.94pc, a target projected for the same period.

The report recommended that the federal and provincial governments should streamline their tax collection systems to reduce leakages and increase their revenues through efforts to improve taxation to achieve the target set by 2014-15, the final year of seventh NFC award.

The report says that Sindh government has established Sindh Revenue Board and started collecting GST on services by itself. Punjab has created the Punjab Revenue Authority as a major reform with the mandate to administer and collect sales tax on services.

KP has also developed a mechanism for collection of GST, while Balochistan maintains status quo and FBR is still collecting GST on its behalf.

Explaining the measures of fiscal discipline in provinces, the report notes that development funds are being released in Punjab on biannual basis to match transfer of development funds with available fiscal space to the Punjab government.

Release of development funds was being strictly monitored along with actual expenditure against the released amounts to avoid unnecessary parking of funds.

The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has committed not to go in the overdraft from the State Bank and the cash balance position of the provincial government with the SBP is satisfactory.

The Balochistan government is the only province which has retired all domestic debt, including cash development loan, and blocked accounts with the SBP and closed its cash balance in credit on terminal of fiscal years.

The report says that the federal government has decided to facilitate provinces to harmonise taxation on agriculture income, as agriculture income tax collected by the provinces are very negligible despite the fact that agriculture sector is one of the major contributors of the GDP.

The main objective of the exercise is to properly explore the potential of tax collection from agriculture and bring it at par with other sectors.

The NFC award had recommended that provinces would initiate steps to effectively tax the agriculture and real estate sectors.

3 provinces fail to achieve NFC target - DAWN.COM