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Better hygiene: Drinking water schemes to benefit 7,500 people


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At least 7,500 people in Gilgit-Baltistan’s (G-B) Ghizer and Hunza valleys will benefit from drinking water and sanitation schemes being launched by the German government in collaboration with a local NGO.


Earlier this week, the projects were inaugurated in Faizabad and Dal Sandhi in Ghizer district and Aliabad in Hunza-Nagar district to meet the longstanding demands of locals.
“We have been saved from the curse of diarrhoeal diseases,” Hunza resident Tasleem Bano said on Saturday.
The facilities were inaugurated by German Ambassador to Pakistan Dr Cyrill Nunn. He was accompanied by German First Secretary Barbara Voss and officials of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).
“The German government and the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) have inaugurated the schemes as part of a €9.4 million grant (Rs1.25 billion) announced in 2010,” read a press release issued by AKDN.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Nunn applauded the role of AKDN and its affiliated agencies, saying that over 300 villages in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral now have access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities.
He also commended the communities which contributed to the implementation of the scheme.
Aga Khan Planning and Building Services (AKPBS) Chairman Hafiz Sherali urged community members to ensure proper maintenance of what he called one of their most valuable assets.
Nearly half the population in G-B and Chitral reportedly does not have access to safe drinking water or adequate sanitation facilities. Families usually collect water from open and contaminated channels, thus falling victim to waterborne diseases.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 17[SUP]th[/SUP], 2014.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/749671/better-hygiene-drinking-water-schemes-to-benefit-7500-people/

 

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Third time’s the charm: NAB arrests Naveed Qadir in PHA land acquisition case

PESHAWAR: NAB Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa rearrested Provincial Housing Authority (PHA) Land Acquisition Collector Naveed Qadir and frontman Muhammad Asif on Sunday.
The two have been accused of illegally raking in more than Rs18 million in the purchase of land for a housing scheme in Surezai in Peshawar. As per revenue records, Qadir does not own any land in this area.
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa PHA had planned a housing scheme for government employees and the public at large in Surezai. PHA officials are said to have planted accused Muhammad Asif as a frontman to pay him inflated amounts instead of paying the rightful landowners their dues directly.
Qadir was arrested in April for alleged embezzlement in a PHA housing scheme in Mouza Darwaza, Nathiagali. Sunday marks the third such case in which Qadir has been arrested.
Qadir and Asif were accused of being involved in a multimillion-rupee embezzlement in the Darwaza housing scheme. PHA, using the same modus operandi, had paid Asif instead of the rightful landowners and bypassed the government’s coffers. In the Darwaza housing scheme, the two accused and others reportedly embezzled over Rs400 million.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 18[SUP]th[/SUP],2014.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/750011/...ts-naveed-qadir-in-pha-land-acquisition-case/

 

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[h=1]DI Khan encounter: High-profile sectarian militant killed by police[/h]

DI KHAN: A high-profile militant was killed and his accomplice injured in a clash with the police in this southern district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhaw (K-P) early Wednesday morning.
The militant, Waleed Akbar, and his accomplice, Abubakar, were allegedly among several militants who had escaped during the DI Khan jailbreak on July 30 last year. They were blamed for several attacks on the Shia community and other incidents of target killing.
Officials said that District Police Officer (DPO) Sadiq Baloch and his team were patrolling Prova Road when they signalled a group of suspects on motorcycles to stop. The men didn’t stop and instead sped ahead. The police began chasing them but the men opened fire on the law-enforcers which was returned. In the ensuing gunfight that continued for over 30 minutes Waleed was killed on the spot whereas Abubakar was injured and arrested. Two other militants managed to escape, Baloch told The Express Tribune.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/754719/...-profile-sectarian-militant-killed-by-police/

 

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Internally displaced and perpetually distressed

BANNU/PESHAWAR: The lack of health facilities and the disruption of education seem to be the glaring issues internally displaced persons (IDPs) are grappling with. However, multiple reports of criminal incidents, security hazards and child recruitment have surfaced in a government report, which reveals these gruelling eventualities, among others.

Nearly a million IDPs from North Waziristan were registered in Bannu and Peshawar as the military offensive, Operation Zarb-e-Azb, began June 15 in the tribal agency. Families left their homes so that terrorists could be eradicated, but the camps – their temporary abode – do not even provide the basic facilities to them. But the picture is far darker than what appears.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/753133/internally-displaced-and-perpetually-distressed/

 

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[h=1]Ghost workers: Health dept removes 57 doctors over absenteeism[/h]

PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has removed 57 doctors, including 12 female doctors, for their continued absence from duty for the past several years. Furthermore, 13 expanded programme on immunisation (EPI) officials were suspended by the department on corruption charges.

According to a notification issued by the health department on August 20, around 57 doctors of BPS-17 from various public sector hospitals in K-P were removed with immediate effect. The notification, a copy of which is available with The Express Tribune, states the absent officials were served various show-cause notices at their homes and notices were also published in newspapers directing them to resume their duties within a stipulated period, however, the officials failed to do so.
The sacked doctors include two senior doctors from Hayatabad Medical Complex, seven from Khyber Teaching Hospital, six from Lady Reading Hospital, four from various public hospitals in Swat, four from the provincial health department, three from Post Graduate Medical Institute Peshawar, three from Swabi, three from Karak, three from Haripur, three from Abbottabad, four from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas including Orakzai Agency, North Waziristan and Mohmand Agency, while the others belong to various district hospitals from across the province.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/752768/ghost-workers-health-dept-removes-57-doctors-over-absenteeism/