Hazara comes to a standstill
ABBOTTABAD – Hundreds of thousands of people from all age groups including women and children took to the streets to voice support in favour of Hazara province and to protest against the renaming of NWFP, as shutter down strike was observed across Hazara region on Sunday.
From minor children to…
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Ejaz-ul-Haq challenges 18th amendment
Ejaz-ul-Haq, the son of the former military dictator Zia-ul-Haq, challenged some portions of 18th Amendment in the Supreme Court on Thursday including renaming of NWFP as Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa .
Speaking to the media at the Supreme Court in Islamabad, Ejaz blasted the government and said that a party chief should…
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53 recruitments cancelled in Hangu on violation of merit
Taking belligerent notice of sheer violation of merit, NWFP Government on Monday has immediately cancelled 53 recruitments of Hangu on emergency basis.
According to a notification issued here on Monday, the 53 recruitments were of various posts including teachers, head clerk, clerk and junior clerks etc.
It has been told…
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‘NWFP faces challenge of economic revival’
PESHAWAR (APP) – Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani has said after having faced with tremendous challenges, especially over the past few years, the NWFP and FATA are confronted with a greater challenge of revival of economy and need support from the entire nation to achieve this goal.
Addressing as chief guest…
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‘ANP not providing relief to masses’
PESHAWAR – Chairman of Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting and senior leader of JUI-F Senator Haji Ghulam Ali has said that despite the solution of the renaming of the province, the NWFP government has failed to give any relief to the masses of the province.
He stated this during…
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PML(N), ANP conflict delays 18th amendment
The meeting of Parliamentary Committee for Constitutional Reforms (PCCR) postponed till tomorrow forcing postponement of the joint parliamentary session that had been convened for March 26, Friday in which recommendations prepared by the committee were to be tabled, report said. Conflicts over renaming of NWFP between PML-N and ANP remained.…
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Renaming of NWFP: PML-N meeting ends without decision
A meeting of PML-N central organizing committee and NWFP organizing committee over renaming of NWFP remained inconclusive after PML-N NWFP insisted on “Afghania”. The meeting held at Punjab House here. The chief of PML-N Mian Ex Prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharifpresided the meeting. According to sources, Nawaz while addressing the meeting said country…
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Nawaz chairs PML-N meeting on NWFP name
Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) chief Muhammad Ex Prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharifis presiding a meeting of central organizing committee and NWFP organizing committee of PML-N at Punjab House in Islamabad. According to sources, Nawaz while addressing the meeting said country is facing problems because of the delay in judges’ restoration and delay in…
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ANP, ‘N’ chiefs call party meetings today
ISLAMABAD – Central leadership of the PML-N and ANP is meeting today (Thursday) to evolve their respective strategies in tackling the crucial issue of new nomenclature for the NWFP, sources said on Wednesday.
“Apart from deliberating the constitutional reforms package, both the parties would discuss the issue of renaming NWFP”,…
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Pukhtoonkhawa-Abaseen to replace NWFP?
LAHORE – Pukhtoonkhawa-Abaseen is likely to be approved as the new name of the NWFP, while the chiefs of PML-N and ANP are likely to meet on Thursday (today) in Islamabad to give a green signal to the new identity of the Frontier province.
ANP insiders privy to the…
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Bilour seeks clear ‘N’ stance
ISLAMABAD – Backing proposal to rename NWFP province as ‘Pukhtoonkhwa’, Federal Minister for Railways Ghulam Ahmed Bilour said that PML(N) should adopt clear stance on the renaming issue.
“ANP will be obliged to PML (N) Chief Ex Prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharifif he agrees on Pukhtoonkhwa”, he said while talking to the…
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Special allowance given to Chitral police
PESHAWAR (APP) – The government of NWFP has extended the grant of Special Risk Allowance to the police personnel of Chitral district.
This was stated by Member of National Assembly from Chitral, Shehzada Mohiyuddin while addressing a press conference here at Peshawar Press Club (PPC) on Saturday.
He said that…
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Opp for regularisation of contract employees
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) along with employees of the National Programme for the Improvement of Watercourses (NPIW) from Sindh, Balochistan and NWFP, Wednesday, demanded of the Government to fulfil its promises regarding regularisation of contract employees.
Addressing a press conference, Chairman PTI Imran Khan…
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PPP to quit NWFP coalition govt?
PESHAWAR – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has formally decided to quit the coalition government in NWFP if the agreed formula regarding governance is not implemented, however, the PPP Parliamentary Leader in the NWFP Assembly, Abdul Akbar Khan denied any such development.
The provincial ministers of the PPP have submitted their…
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US women condemn Dupatta flinging!
NEW YORK – Protesting against the act of flinging away of Dupatta by NWFP MPA Nighat Orakzai in the assembly, the US women have said that Nighat Orakzai not only made her own head bare but also of the women in general. Talking to the Nawa-i-Waqt they said that the…
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Ruckus in NWFP over Shahbaz’s remarks
PESHAWAR – NWFP Assembly witnessed uproar on Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s statement in which he has allegedly asked Taliban ‘not to carry out terrorist activities in Punjab’, when the ANP MPA Saqibullah Khan Chamkani brought it into the notice of PML (N) lawmakers to clarify whether the statement was…
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War-torn areas exempted from tax
ISLAMABAD – The government on Wednesday exempted the war-affected districts of the NWFP and most of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) from the federal as well as the central excise duties.
In three different notifications issued by the Federal Board of Revenues (FBR), the government has accorded tax concessions…
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