Category Press Release

Govt takes flak for sluggish development spending

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA), a non-governmental organization, on Monday criticized the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government over sluggish development spending. In a statement issued here, the CGPA said the spending details available on the provincial…

Stumbling blocks in FATA reforms

PRESS RELEASE The five-member Fata Reforms Committee constituted by the prime minister needs to deliberate over three main areas with regards to the future of the tribal areas: Extending the jurisdiction of the superior courts to Fata; Shifting the legislative powers for…

Suggestions floated to improve services

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The participants of a public hearing on problems and issues in the education, health, water and sanitation sectors on Tuesday put forward suggestions for improving the situation and making the government departments more accessible to the public.…

Mr President, wake up to FATA’s plight

PRESS RELEASE Dear Mr President, You may consider yourself only a ceremonial head of Pakistan’s parliamentary system, but for the country’s tribal areas, you are the real king. The cumulative area of this region surpasses that of more than 50…

Most departments fail to implement RTI law

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA) on Tuesday said that a scorecard it had prepared revealed poor implementation of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information (RTI) law by different departments. A statement issued here said…

Inequity marks distribution of uplift funds among MPAs

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government allocated Rs 4.3 billion to Peshawar, Nowshera, Mardan, Swabi and Swat district out of Rs8.5 billion development funds doled out to the lawmakers from across the province during the last fiscal year, 2014-15,…

MPs support merging FATA with Pakhtunkhwa

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR – The parliamentarians and intelligentsia extended full support to the passage of the proposed 22nd Amendment from the parliament allowing merging of the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) into Pakthunkhwa province and amendments in the FCR. This was…

Budget analysis: FATA in need of 8,751 schools

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The Federally Administered Tribal Areas require 13,407 primary and secondary government-owned schools whereas the number of existing schools stands at 4,656. This was stated in a Fata education budget analysis report presented at a seminar in the city…