By Irfan Ahmed LAHORE, Pakistan, Dec 31 2013 (IPS) - A new policy by the Pakistani government to regulate foreign-funded non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has come in for sharp criticism from the...
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Rebuilding Lives Skilfully
By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Dec 27 2013 (IPS) - Farhat Bibi, 43, was left to fend for her three young sons after her husband was killed in a bomb attack in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal...
Barren Fields Recover From Taliban
By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dec 30 2013 (IPS) - Ahmed Nawaz, a 55-year-old farmer in northwestern Pakistan’s Swat valley, rues the day the Taliban arrived in his beautiful land, known for...
Minor girl severely injured in attack on polio team in Quetta
SYED ALI SHAH QUETTA: A polio team administering vaccination to children in Pashtoonabad on Sunday, was attacked by militants, injuring four people including a minor girl. Police said militants...
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Under directives of UAE President, 12 projects to provide clean drinking water in Pakistan launched
In implementation of the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the administration of the UAE Project to Assist Pakistan, UAE PAP, has announced the launch of new...
Govt to work for improving law and order in Balochistan, says Nisar
F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Friday said that the federal government would provide all necessary strength and resources to the Balochistan government...
Khasadars to vaccinate children in next polio campaign
Farid Shinwari KHYBER AGENCY: A number of local Khasadar force personnel on Friday got training over how to immunize children against polio below the age of five years after 400 volunteers in Jamrud...
North Waziristan appears close to full-blown conflict
Ismail Khan GUNS have fallen silent in Mirali — a bustling town 35km to the east of North Waziristan’s regional headquarters of Miramshah, but now with rows of burnt down and bombed shops and houses. ...
Curfew lifted after talks with Taliban
Zulfiqar Ali PESHAWAR: A curfew imposed after a suicide bomb attack on a mosque near a checkpost and subsequent clashes between militants and security forces in North Waziristan was lifted on Monday...
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Polio this week - as of 24 December 2013
The data table below is as of 24 December 2013. The text is as of 18 December 2013. As the year 2013 draws to a close, the GPEI takes stock: In Afghanistan, no indigenous cases of wild poliovirus...
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PAP completes first $ 500,000 model school in S. Waziristan
South Waziristan: In implementation of UAE President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan's instructions to support education sector in Pakistan, management of the UAE Project to Assist...
Polio worker shot dead in Khyber Agency
DAWN.COM and Zahir Shah Sherazi KHYBER AGENCY: Unknown militants gunned down a polio worker in the Jamrud Tehsil area of Khyber Agency on Saturday, officials said. The polio worker Galiab was...
Protecting the farmer community in Sindh
ISLAMABAD [ACTED News] - ACTED recently initiated an intervention supported by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) through which 25,450 flood affected resource-poor and...
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Deputy Chief of Mission of Japan inaugurates a water supply facility in Village Pepal Porian (Punjab) and Village Bissan Phatian Pona (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), implemented with assistance from the Government of Japan
JPNEMPAK 13-33 Islamabad: 10 December 2013 Mr. Takashi Katae, Deputy Chief of Mission, inaugurated a water supply facility yesterday that has started providing safe and clean water to Village Pepal...
Punjab gives Rs100m goods for Balochistan quake victims
QUETTA: The Deputy Speaker of Punjab Assembly, Sher Ali Gorchani, visited the earthquake-hit Awaran district on Wednesday and handed over relief goods worth Rs100 million to the Balochistan...
'Heavy fighting' in Pakistan's North Waziristan
Heavy fighting involving artillery fire and helicopter gunships is taking place in the Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan, military sources say. Read the full article on BBC
GIEWS Country Brief: Pakistan 18-December-2013
FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Higher winter wheat plantings for the 2013/14 cropping season Above-average cereal production in 2013 Wheat imports forecast to increase in 2013/14 marketing year Prices rice...
Anti-polio vaccination resumes in Khyber
LANDI KOTAL/SWABI, Dec 14: Polio vaccination was resumed in Khyber Agency on Saturday after the political administration assured security to health workers who had earlier announced to boycott the...
Relief goods for quake survivors
QUETTA: The Punjab government handed over on Monday relief goods to the Balochistan government for the earthquake stricken families of Awaran and Kech districts. The authorities concerned in the...
Flood-resilient streams protect mountain farms, villagers in north Pakistan
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:45 AM Author: Saleem Shaikh and Sughra Tunio HUNZA-NAGAR VALLEY, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Flood-prone streams that until...