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Food Governance Key To Tackling Pakistan’s NCD Surge: Experts

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Experts Call for better Food Governance to Combat Non-communicable Diseases

{{ brizy_dc_global_blocks position=’top’ }} PRESS RELEASE {{placeholder content=’e3ticml6eV9kY19wb3N0X3RpdGxlfX0=’}} {{placeholder content=’e3tlZGl0b3JfcG9zdF9pbmZvfX0=’}} Experts on Tuesday called for better food governance to tackle the issue of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), stressing that NCDs compromised the food security of a state. Speaking at a seminar…

Need For Modern Industrial Zones For Peshawar Stressed

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: Infrastructure bottlenecks, slow digitization, lack of cheap credit availability and poor entrepreneurial skills are hampering the growth of businesses in the provincial capital, says a study. It advocated modern industrial zones around Peshawar to meet the growing…

K-P Government fails to table RTI amendment bill

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: As Tuesday’s sitting was adjourned owing to a boycott by lawmakers over Baldev Kumar’s appearance, the provincial government could not table a controversial amendment to right to information law. The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government had drafted the Right to…

Govt warned against amending RTI law

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: Many civil society organizations have opposed the proposed ‘controversial’ amendments to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information Act, 2013, declaring the government’s move contrary to the people’s fundamental rights. They also warned that they would challenge those…

ANP termed most active party in KP Assembly

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: Awami National Party has secured top slot for its contribution to total business of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly till June 2016, says a report. Centre for Governance and Public Accountability in its report on performance, ranking and analysis…

Revenue, foreign aid targets missed

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s revised budgetary estimates for the outgoing year show that the government has not only failed to get its due share from the federal government but also failed to achieve its own tax and non-tax…

Law on right to information not being extended to Pata

PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa senior minister for local government and rural development Inayatullah Khan on Monday complained despite repeated requests, the federal government was not extending the KP Right to Information Act 2013 to the Provincially Administrated Tribal Areas (Pata).…

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