Salman Yousafzai

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Justice (Retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso Wednesday approved a proposal for provision of cash grants to around 3000 quake-hit families of Mashkhel, Balochistan to reconstruct their properties on their own.
The Prime Minister chaired a high-level meeting held at PM House to review the progress on development projects, assessment of damages caused by recent earthquake and recruitment in federal government against the quota of Balochistan.

Five more persons were killed and 10 including a woman were inured in fresh violence in Karachi on Tuesday. The deceased also included Managing Director of a factory and worker of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).

According to media reports, unknown motorcyclists opened firing on a car. As a result, a a person was killed while other sustained injuries in Bhains Colony area of Shah Latif police station.

Police stated that the deceased was identified as Arshad Pervaiz, 65, MD in a factory, while Kashif Qizalbaash was injured. Both were residents of Gulistan-e-Jauhar.

ISLAMABAD: The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) will support 3 million children to receive primary education with the financial and technical support World Bank and DFID, said Farzana Raja, Federal Minister and Chairperson Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) while addressing a seminar on 'Social Protection” organized by the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS) on Wednesday.

KANDHKOT: Measles claimed five more lives in interior Sindh including Kandhkot district, mounting the death toll to 58 in last 27days.

Four children died in Kandhkot while measles claimed another life in Daharki on Friday.

The health ministry is providing vaccines to the affected children. However, the outbreak has not been brought under control.

Emergency has also been declared in all public hospitals.

–thanks Shahbaz for cooperation

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MARDAN: Rescue services 1122 in full capacity have commenced in Mardan after Peshawar. Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Amir Haider Khan Hoti formally launched the program in Town Hall Mardan. Addressing the launching ceremony, the CM said that the people of Khyber Pakhtun khwa were confronting challenges of insurgency and extremism, added, the need for prompt response in such circumstances was direly felt.

So far, more than 10,000 displaced families have returned to their homes in different phases.

A convoy of at least 300 displaced families left for their homes in South Waziristan Agency (SWA) in the sixth phase of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) repatriation plan on Tuesday.

Brigadier Muhammad Asghar saw off the repatriating families and assured them that Pakistan Army would continue its efforts for their rehabilitation.

Each repatriating family is being provided with six months ration besides free transportation and Rs 25,000 in cash.

LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab has constituted a 14-member committee headed by Provincial Minister for Law Rana Sanaullah Khan for assessing the financial and human losses due to rains in Bahawalpur and DG Khan Divisions and payment of suitable financial assistance and compensation to the affectees which will submit its recommendations within a week to the Chief Minister. After that affected villages will be declared calamity-hit areas for providing financial assistance and rehabilitation of affectees, agri-income tax, water rate and waiving of abiyana.

KARACHI: Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah has strictly directed the district administrations of coastal areas especially the Karachi, Thatta and Badin districts to adopt all possible measures to face any eventuality during upcoming spell of monsoon rains as predicted by the Met Department.