Tag: Peshawar

  • VIDEO: Peshawar woman booked for aerial firing

    VIDEO: Peshawar woman booked for aerial firing

    A woman in Peshawar has been booked for aerial firing on Friday, after her videos went viral on social media, The Express Tribune reported.

    According to the details, an FIR [First information report] has been registered against Saba Jaffer, who is a resident of Hayatabad – an upscale neighbourhood of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) provincial capital.

    The police after the videos went viral, took notice of the incident by filing a complaint against the suspect.

    The authorities are conducting raids to get hold of the Saba as the investigation in the matter is underway.

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  • KP govt inaugurates IT lab at Guru Nanak School Peshawar

    KP govt inaugurates IT lab at Guru Nanak School Peshawar

    The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has inaugurated an IT lab at the Baba Guru Nanak School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in Peshawar in an attempt to make Sikh students more tech-savvy, Samaa reported.

    According to the details, the lab was inaugurated by Special Assistant to the KP Chief Minister on Science and Information Technology Kamran Bhangash and Adviser to the KP Chief Minister on Education Ziaullah Bangash.

    Kamran Bangash said, “Students here will be taught early-age programming, early-age robotics, and early-age stemming”.

    The classes at the lab have commenced on Monday, November 18. The students are initially being taught the basics of using a computer.

    “We have learned how cartoons and films are made and how dance parties are shot,” said a student of the institute. “We have also learned how to use different softwares.”

    A cake celebrating the 550th birthday of Sikh spiritual leader, Baba Guru Nanak, was also cut at the inauguration. Kamran said that the lab was a gift from the KP government to the Sikhs on this occasion.

  • PTI govt reluctant to get Peshawar BRT investigated

    PTI govt reluctant to get Peshawar BRT investigated

    The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has opposed the formation of a committee to investigate the Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project, Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) has reported.

    As per the details, treasury members of the KP Assembly have
    opposed the opposition’s proposed suggestion to form a house committee to probe
    the long-pending project.

    The chair, however, has admitted the question for a full
    debate under Rule 48 of Assembly Procedure, reports said.

    “The government would not form a parliamentary
    committee unless it was aimed to facilitate people and provide them
    relief,” KP Law Minister Sultan Khan said on the floor of the provincial
    assembly during question hour.

    He rejected the allegations of corruption in BRT and said
    that public funds had been utilised on the project in a “judicious and
    transparent” way.

    The minister was responding to a question raised by Pakistan
    People’s Party (PPP) legislator Nighat Orakzai, who argued that public money
    had been “deliberately misused” in the project.

    According to an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released
    earlier this month, the KP government significantly deviated from the original,
    agreed design and used inferior quality material in the Rs70 billion Peshawar
    metro bus project putting lives and assets at risk in the process.

    The inferior quality construction could damage the project’s reputation at the international level, warned the lender that had approved a $335 million (Rs53 billion) loan for the project in mid-2017.

    PESHAWAR METRO:

    The Peshawar metro is rather infamous for its incompletion as
    the authorities concerned have failed to meet deadlines time and again. The government
    has now issued yet another deadline for completion of the much-delayed project,
    saying that it will be operational by the end of current year.

    The KP government and the project’s execution agency had earlier promised to open the project, launched in October 2017, within six months on April 20, 2018. However, the deadline was missed.

    The project managers kept changing the launch dates from May
    20 to June 30 to December 31 in 2018 to March 23, 2019. The project’s cost has
    also jumped to Rs68 billion from earlier Rs49 billion.