Non-compliance with ruling irks KP Assembly speaker thenews.com.pk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thenews.com.pk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
PDA DG assures to protect greenbelts
National
April 20, 2021
PESHAWAR: A delegation of the civil society from Hayatabad met the new Director-General of the Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) Ammara Khan wherein the official assured them support for green development model.
The delegation said that many greenbelts were destroyed and thousands of trees felled due to the execution of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project in Peshawar.
Therefore, they said, that the remaining green spaces left in Peshawar should be saved from further ill-planned and unsustainable development plans that ignored the importance of trees, ecology, environment and biodiversity. The delegation members told the PDA DG that trees and greenbelts served as an effective barrier against rising pollution levels. They said that green spaces and trees needed to be saved. They said that a dangerous level of air pollution in Peshawar was evident from Air Quality Index reports that posed a serious threat to the live
Don’t abridge peoples’ freedom: SC tells NAB
Says there is a perception that NAB actions are based on mala fide
ISLAMABAD:
The Supreme Court asked the top graft buster – the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) – not to abridge the freedom granted to people under the Constitution.
“It is not permitted to interfere with someone’s freedom. NAB should also not abridge peoples’ freedom,” Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel noted on Friday.
Justice Miankhel was part of a division bench – presided over by Justice Maqbool Baqar – hearing NAB’s appeal against a Peshawar High Court (PHC) order with regard to arrest of an accused, Salman Fida.
Regi Model Town remain uncompleted after 28 years
National
April 15, 2021
PESHAWAR: The oldest and largest housing society of government employees at Peshawar Regi Model Town (RMT) could not be completed even passage of almost 28 years. Most of the employees who got plots in 1993 have died but their children have not yet got possession of the plots. The government has so far been able to open only two out of five zones in the housing society, but both zones also lack basic amenities.
The PTI is in power since 2013 in KP but it couldn’t be able to settle the long-standing dispute of three zones of RMT. Authority has not built a single hospital in the whole society while Zone-IV has not a single mosque. Reggie Model Town residents are paying their gas bills at the LNG expensive tariff.
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