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(Web Desk) PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has approved a grant of Rs150 million for the welfare of religious minorities. The funds will be released by the KP Department of Minority Affairs will provide grants to minorities’ youth, widows and physically challenged persons to start small businesses, said a press statement. Special Assistant to the […]
ISLAMABAD: A project that combines satellite images, mapping technologies and the local knowledge of villagers to help build climate-proof settlements in disaster-prone areas of Pakistan won an international award on Thursday. More than one million people have benefited from the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) Pakistan project, which was a gold prize winner at the […]
ISLAMABAD: The country’s corona virus positivity ratio again climbed to 7.59pc on Saturday, with the highest positivity ratio observed in Abbotabad at 17.57pc, according to the data released by the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC). The ratio had decreased to around 7.2pc earlier. After Abbotabad, the second highest positivity ratio was observed in Rawalpindi […]