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PESHAWAR: Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar, the biggest and oldest hospital of the province, lacks spica cast and traction tables, which are used in orthopaedic related surgeries and this situation has been prevailing for the last 18 months. The spica cast and traction tables are used in femurs, calf-bone and tibia-bone fractures during surgeries of the […]

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly unanimously passed a resolution on the tragic incident of suicide bomb blast in Quetta civil hospital in which more than 97 people were killed and more than hundred people were injured and condemned the attack as inhuman here on Monday. The provincial law minister Imtiaz Shahid Qureshi moved the resolution which […]

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution and demanded the federal government to diplomatically resolve the problems of Pakistan community living in the Gulf countries. Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) MPA Sahibzada Sanaullah presented the resolution, which was signed by the opposition parties as well as the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf members. In […]

PESHAWAR: Ameer Muqam, Advisor to the Prime Minister, has recently asked Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan when he would start talking about the Khyber Leaks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) instead of Panama Leaks. In his address at an Eid Millan Party at a local hotel in Gulbahar, Peshawar, Muqam noted that the Director-General of […]

PESHAWAR: According to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report, as many as one million people die every year worldwide from using counterfeit medications, a problem particularly severe in Pakistan. In 2012, in one incident alone, 120 people died after taking counterfeit heart medication in Pakistan. Pakistan has established The Drug Regulatory to spot black marketers […]

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Sunday he would welcome the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) if it decides to join his party’s movement against corruption. Answering a question about the possible collaboration between the PPP and the PTI against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Khan said that every single person, including he himself, […]

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly here on Friday passed the supplementary budget for the outgoing fiscal year 2015-16 worth Rs.26.3 billion. The speaker of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly, Asad Qaisar rejected all 50 cut motions of different departments and approved the supplementary budget anonymously. Before the approval of the supplementary budget Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez […]

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has said that Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organisation (PEDO) Chairman Shakeel Durrani has decided to resign from his position due to personal reasons. “The official was asking irrelevant question about development projects of the government;” said Minister for Power and Energy Muhammad Atif Khan on Thursday. Responding to opposition leader’s remarks […]

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly passed the finance bill unanimously for the year 2016-17 and approved all 59 developmental grants and rejected all cut motion raised by the opposition parties in the provincial assembly here on Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion after passing the finance bill from the KP assembly, Chief Minister Pervez Khattak said that […]

 PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly approved four demands for grants for the year 2016-17 while the opposition members in the assembly withdrew their cut motions. As the assembly session started, the Finance Minister answered all questions asked by the opposition members in the previous session of the assembly. On the occasion Parliamentary leader of Awami […]