Young doctors welcome Kaptaans offer on June 20, 2017PESHAWAR: Young Doctors Association President Dr. Gulab Noor Afridi has welcomed the negotiation offer presented by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan and said that the only genuine demand of the young doctors is the restoration of Post Graduate Medical Institute which was never conveyed by the provincial government to PTI chairman in a proper way. […]
KP Assembly passes supplementary, annual budgets on June 16, 2017PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Friday concluded its budget session, giving approval to Rs 603 billion budget for fiscal year 2017-18 and Rs 47.2 billion supplementary budget for the outgoing 2016-17. The House approved all the demands for grants for the 43 departments/sectors to meet their requirements in the fiscal year 2016-17. The opposition […]
Young doctors boycott OPD on June 16, 2017 PESHAWAR: Young doctors boycotted OPD and indoor service in Hayatabad Medical Complex while the hunger strike camp continued for 24th consecutive day near Provincial Assembly premises. The hunger strike camp was led by President of Young Doctor Association Dr Gulab Noor Afridi and patron-in-Chief Dr Alamgir. The protesting doctors shifted their injured colleague from […]
Kaptaan failed to curb corruption: opposition leader on June 15, 2017PESHAWAR: Discussion on the budget is continue in the provincial assembly here on Wednesday as the opposition leader criticised the provincial government and said that there was no change occurs in Patwar system in KP and corruption is on the peak in revenue department. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Session on the budget 2017-18 was continuing […]
Hayatabad Medical Complex becomes a battlefield on June 14, 2017PESHAWAR: The Hayatabad Medical Complex looked like a battlefield when the police and doctors quarrelled with each other. As a result, many doctors were injured and arrested by the police on Tuesday. A spokesperson for the Young Doctors Association said that that YDA was observing a peaceful protest at the premises of the hospital when […]
KP budget has something for everyone on June 9, 2017PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister Muzaffar Said Advocate has said that the provincial government has presented balance budget for the year 2017-18 in which maximum relief were provided to all sectors including the government employees. Addressing a post budget press conference here, the Minister said government has distributed budget mainly in three major sectors ie […]
KP govt earmarks Rs 65.7 billion for health sector on June 7, 2017PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has allocated Rs. 65.7 billion for the health sector in the 2017-18 budget showing a 20 per cent increase over the 2016-17 fiscal year. Finance Minister Muzaffar Said said the total volume of the health sector was 11pc of total budget volume of Rs. 603 billion for the year 2017-18. […]
Amir Muqam foresees no load shedding after 2017 on June 6, 2017PESHAWAR: Advisor to the Prime Minister Engineer Ameer Muqam has said that the federal government knows the problems of common people and hopefully at the end of 2017 load shedding will be eradicated from the country. This he said on Monday in a press conference here at Peshawar Press Club, he said that soon 9000 […]
People throng bookstores to get Goyana Karkhe on June 4, 2017PESHAWAR: Highlighting the ups and downs in society, a special poetical collection of Pashto poetry named Goyana Karkhe (speaking lines), written by Amjad Ali Khadim, was launched, which attracted a large number of readers to bookstalls. The book covers 43 deferent subjects including poems besides 24 modern Ghazals narrating about the deprivation of the poor […]
KP govt okays phase-II of scheme for cancer patients on June 3, 2017PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has approved the second phase of the scheme for cancer patients, as the number of patients benefiting from the scheme would now be 2,065. The project titled “Treatment of Poor Blood Cancer Patients” is being executed at Hayatabad Medical Complex, headed by Professor Dr Abid Jameel, to provide lifesaving treatment […]