COLOMBO: At least 80 houses were destroyed due to a fire that broke out in a highly populous area in Colombo on Tuesday night, with around 220 people displaced, Sri Lankan police said. The fire broke out at the Kajeemawatte Flats in Thotalanga at around 8 p.m. (1430 GMT) on Tuesday and it took firefighters […]
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa releases Rs 18.4bn for houses’ reconstruction in tribal districts
In order to reconstruct over 57,000 damaged houses in the newly-mainstreamed five tribal districts, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has released 18.4 billion rupees for rehabilitation purposes. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Media Iftikhar Durrani took to Twitter to post a compensation chart in this regard. He believed over 15.389 billion rupees had been paid […]
Giving NRO to the corrupt is like committing treason: PM
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said that giving a National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) to the corrupt elements will be tantamount to committing treason. “No NRO will be given to any of the corrupt. Letting the corrupt go scot free will be a betrayal and injustice to the nation,” the prime minister said while addressing […]