PESHAWAR, APR 06 (DNA) – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has approved a relief package of over one billion rupees for deserving families across the province. Th approval was given at a meeting of Zakat and Social Welfare Department with Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan in the chair. Under the package, two installments of six-thousand rupees each will be paid through district zakat councils and local zakat committees. This package is separate from the relief assistance provided under Ehsaas Program. Mahmood Khan said that the government’s coronavirus relief package will coverRead More

ISLAMABAD, APR 06 (DNA) – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader Jahangir Khan Tareen has been removed as the chairman of Agriculture Task Force after the emergence of a probe report against responsible persons behind flour and sugar crisis in the country. The government has commenced taking action against those found involved in flour and sugar crisis in Pakistan as a senior politician of PTI Jahangir Khan Tareen from the top position of an agriculture task force. Sources said that the government will take further action against the responsible persons afterRead More

ISLAMABAD, APR 6 (DNA) – Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lieutenant General M Afzal Monday said over 3800 ventilators are available in the country and 2000 more will be imported from China. Briefing Parliamentary Committee here, he said 500 will reach Pakistan on Thursday, while 29,000 protective kits for doctors and paramedics had been provided to provinces. He said that about 137 hospitals, had exclusively been dedicated for the patients of Coronavirus. He said 22 laboratories are working across the country.=DNA ==========

ISLAMABAD, APR 6 (DNA) – CDA has set to take possession of 450 Kanals of land in Park Enclave-II. In a meeting presided by the Chairman, CDA, instructions were issued to take over the vacant land as all pending matters were reported by Estate to have been settled. Directions were also issued to hold a special CDA-DWP within next ten days positively and directed that development work should start not later than May, 2020. Project Director (P.D) Park Enclave briefed that possession issues of land were resolved in Park Enclave-IRead More

  ISLAMABAD (DNA) A major reshuffle in Cabinet is announced. Following new ministers have been announced. Syed Fakhar Imam made Federal Minister for Minister of National Food Security   Makhdoon Khusru Bakhtiyar made Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Mr Hammad Azhar* Federal Minister for Industries Mr Azam Sawati* Federal Minister forNarcotics Control Mr Babar Awan* Advisor for Parliamentary Affairs Mr Mohammad Shahzad Arbab removed as Advisor* Resignation of Mr. Khalid Maqbool Siddique as Federal Minister has been accepted* Mr. Amin ul Haq  appointed as Federal Minister for Telecom Mr. HashimRead More