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Former nazims skeptical about holding of local govt elections National February 13, 2021 PESHAWAR: The former elected representatives at the district level in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are not optimistic about holding of local bodies elections in the province, citing the statements of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ministers as proof of their lack of seriousness. Federal Minister for Defence Pervez Khattak recently said that district council was retained in the new local government system...

Former KP Nazims skeptical about holding of local govt elections National February 13, 2021 PESHAWAR: The former elected representatives at the district level in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are not optimistic about holding of local bodies elections in the province, citing the statements of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ministers as proof of their lack of seriousness. Federal Minister for Defence Pervez Khattak recently said that district council was retained in the new local government sys...

By Our correspondentISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz has said that the government was taking steps to control inflation and hopefully, commodity...

With directives to the private mobile service providers to improve services in South Waziristan, the authorities are working to recommence fixed-line broadband services in the area to facilitate the local community, particularly students.

The romance of geography with real Pakistan No country is without issues, and that is the way things always are The writer is a retired major general and has an interest in International Relations and Political Sociology. He can be reached at [email protected] and tweets @20_Inam It was a long line for the metro ticket in Vienna. When my turn came, the man at the window asked me where I was from. When I said Pakistan, he was eager, telling me how he had been harbouring a dream to visit our N...

Federal Minister for IT and Telecommunication Syed Aminul Haque said that 5G services will be launched in Pakistan in December 2022. He said that the IT ministry is working with the prime minister to launch 5G services in the country. It is the IT ministry’s vision that every Pakistani should have a smartphone, the minister said. The mobile phone companies have started manufacturing ones in the country. He was speaking to media in Islamabad on Wednesday after the Universal Service Fund contrac...

USF inks contract to provide High Speed Mobile Broadband service to three districts of KP February 10, 2021 The Universal Srevice Fund (USF) has awarded contract worth approximately PKR 1.37 Billion to Telenor for providing High Speed Mobile Broadband services in Chitral, Upper Dir and Lower Dir districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Federal Minister for IT and Telecommunication, Syed Amin Ul Haque and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) for Overseas Pakistanis & HRD, Syed Zulfi...

MINGORA: The people here on Saturday complained that the Sehat Insaf Cards did not cover the treatment of the patients suffering from the coronavirus infection.Talking to this scribe, the patients...

Karachi to record a minimum temperature of 9 to 11 degrees tomorrow, says PMD

Alleged killer of Education Dept arrested in Lower Dir Peshawar January 23, 2021 TIMERGARA: The police on Friday claimed to have arrested the accused in the murder case of the officer of the Education Department within six hours of the incident and recovered the pistol and the victim’s mobile phone. The SP Investigation, Lower Dir, Mushtaq Ahmad Khan along with DSP Farooq Jan and SHO Talash, Muhammad Ayub Khan, told the journalists here that the accused identified as Imdadullah, a resident ...