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(MENAFN - Tribal News Network) Rifaqat Ullah Razarwal PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has ordered the immediate closure of educational institutions in 27 districts of the province where the COVID19 infection rate is more than 5 percent. A statement issued by the office of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Education Minister Shahram Tarakai on April 24, said from today (April 26), all schools from primary to higher secondary will remain closed in 27 districts. These districts inc...

63rd doctor succumbs to Covid in K-P Govt asks residents to wear masks; imposes Section 144 across the province PHOTO: REUTERS PESHAWAR: Yet another doctor has succumbed to Covid-19 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) bringing the total number of medics killed so far to 63 in the province. Children Specialist Dr Syed Mumtaz Hussain Shah breathed his last at a private hospital in Islamabad where he was admitted after his condition deteriorated rapidly. Due to Covid-19 infection his lungs had been dama...

The Peshawar High Courton Monday launched a five-year policy for the speedy disposal of cases to clear backlog. — APP/File PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Courton Monday launched a five-year policy for the speedy disposal of cases to clear backlog. According to high court registrar Khawaja Wajihuddin, around 230,880 cases are pending with district courts across the province. He told reporters here that the District Judiciary Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Policy, 2020-25, was formulated fo...

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan chairs the second meeting here on developmental schemes and people’s issues in Malakand division on Saturday. — Photo courtesy KPK updates Twitter PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Saturday decided to set up a commission headed by a senior member of the board of revenue to look into the issues, especially the people’s grievances, about land settlement process in Malakand division. Chairing the second meeting here on ...

CHITRAL: The health department started vaccination of its staffers in different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday. A vaccination campaign in Chitral was inaugurated at a function held at the district headquarters hospital. Lower Chitral deputy commissioner Hassan Abid inaugurated the campaign. District health officer Dr Haider Mulk and hospital’s medical superintendent Dr Shamim were the first to be inoculated against Covid-19. Dr Shamim told Dawn that 387 employees of the hospita...

Chief Minister Mahmood Khan leads a Kashmir Day rally in Peshawar on Friday. (Below from left) A driver departs the starting point in a jeep race in Indus River, Swabi. Cyclists pass through Northern Bypass Road during a race in Peshawar. — Dawn/White Star PESHAWAR: The government departments, political parties and civil society organisations held events, rallies and corner meetings across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday to express solidarity with the people of the India-held Kashmir in their st...

Frequent power outages in Chitral resented Peshawar February 2, 2021 CHITRAL: Member Provincial Assembly and District Development Advisory Committee (DDAC) Chairman Maulana Hidayatur Rahman and others on Monday held a meeting at the Golen Powerhouse to resolve the issue of hours-long electricity loadshedding in Upper Chitral district. Lower Chitral District administration officials, including Additional Deputy Commissioner (relief and human rights) Abdul Wali Khan, Assistant Commissioner Shah...

CHITRAL: Local political activists have demanded of the government to start work on rehabilitation of protection walls and diversion of river and stream during the ongoing winter season as work on such sites would not be possible from mid-March when the water level rises. Amirullah Khan, Upper Chitral district president of PPP, said that segments of roads and irrigation channels and some villages were on the verge of being eroded into the river. He said that no work was possible when the wate...

CM special assistant visits site for bridge in Upper Chitral Peshawar December 17, 2020 CHITRAL: Special Assistant to Chief Minister Wazir Zada visited the site of a temporary steel bridge to be erected on a stream at Istaro point in Upper Chitral district. Member Provincial Assembly Maulana Hidayatur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner Upper Chitral, Chitral Scouts Commandant Colonel Ali Zafar, elders of the area including Sultan Wazir, Haroon Khan, Safeerullah and others were present on the occasio...