| Torrential rains may destroy corn crops in Chach, fears farmer |  |  |  |
| Written by admin | | Thursday, 30 August 2007 |  HAZRO: Crops of corn and cauliflower is likely to be damaged due to continuous torrential downpour in different areas of Chach .
The crops in different villages of Chach, Nertopa, Malik Maala, Burrazai are also feared to be in danger . According to the details, the farmers feared that their corps of corn and cauliflower is likely to be destroyed by the ongoing torrential downpour, which started on Monday morning in different areas of Chach . |
| Chaos on ground grows with air traffic: Islamabad airport | | | |
| Written by admin | | Wednesday, 29 August 2007 | ISLAMABAD: A plan to add a low-cost terminal at the existing Islamabad International Airport has been shelved after the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) objected to it.
PAF spokesman declined to comment on the issue but the Civil Aviation Authority chief Farooq Rehmatullah said it was CAA’s own decision to abandon the plan and instead concentrate on the new airport being constructed at Pind Ranjha near Fatehjang.
When the CAA approved the Rs400 million plan in January it was said an additional domestic terminal was needed at the existing airport to handle the growing air traffic until the new airport is ready in five years.
However the PAF, which shares the airport with the CAA, shot down the plan, saying the terminal proposed to be built next to the flying club would be closer to the runway than the National Airfield Clearance Policy permitted.
Some of PAF’s own installations at the Chaklala Airbase, particularly the aircraft pens, also are alleged to violate the policy.
Under the airfield clearance policy the terminal has to be some 750 feet from the edge of the runway. But, the proposed make-shift low cost terminal was planned to be constructed at some 680 feet from the runway.
“The new airport project is moving on fast track and we thought it would not be financially feasible to go ahead with the construction of low cost terminal,” the CAA chief explained.
If the CAA wanted to go ahead with the additional terminal plan, it would have got permission from the ministry of defence, he said.
Asked if that would have violated the National Airfield Clearance Policy, he said, the now abandoned project was strictly according to the International Civil Aviation Organisation specifications.
Commercial aviation circles say the present airport building cannot cope with the growing passenger load and is virtually bursting at the seams. The recent renovations have failed to ease the situation.
In a move to reduce the rush by other means, the CAA imposed a tax of Rs20 on visitors coming to receive or see off the passengers. That has added to its income but not reduced the congestion which is impeding the entire process of passenger handling.
Chaotic scenes have become a norm at the airport. Even concourse hall and car parking area are packed to capacity most of the day. For many the chaotic experience at the airport is nothing more than a nightmare.
Airport Security Force sources say they consider the congested airport a security risk.
Moreover, the departure lounge of the existing terminal barely manages to handle a single flight at a time.
The current annual turnover of passengers at the airport at Chaklala, constructed by modifying a 1948 airforce base hangar, is about 3.5 million.
It is estimated that the number of passengers at the airport is growing by 14 per cent annually, compared to the national air passenger growth rate of less than four per cent, turning it into one of the busiest airports in the country.
As many as 75 flights are handled at the airport daily. |
| NWFP court sends 5 Punjab cops to jail | | | |
| Written by admin | | Wednesday, 29 August 2007 | PESHAWAR: NWFP police on Tuesday produced Punjab police officers, charged with kidnapping a boy and thrashing women after raiding a house in Nowshera district, at the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) after a lapse of 12 days.
Peshawar ATC Judge Shah Jee Rehman ordered judicial remand for Punjab police officers and directed the NWFP police to produce the detailed records before the court on September 1. Police sources said Frontier police were under pressure after lodging an FIR against the Punjab officials and that Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ahmad Naeem had also discussed the arrest of Punjab police with NWFP IGP Mohammad Sharif Virk.
On the orders of Nowshera District and Sessions Judge Khawaja Wajihuddin, the Frontier police arrested on August 17 five police officials of Punjab — Rana Gulzar, investigation in-charge at the China Chowk Police Station in Sialkot, Sub-Inspector Mohammad Sharif, Hawaldar Manzoor Ahmad and Constables Asif Nadeem and Sarfaraz — at Attock Bridge, along with h ‘kidnapped’ boy Qazi Sammad, 15.
The Nowshera district and sessions judge ordered Nowshera Kalan Police Station to book the Punjab officials under Section 365-A of the Anti-Terrorism Act in the boy’s kidnapping case, Section 354 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) for women’s disgrace, and Sections 449 and 452 of the PPC for trespassing.
Advocate Astaghfirullah, who appeared for the kidnapped boy’s grandmother, Imtiaz Begum, said NWFP police had removed non-bailable sections, including 365-A, from the FIR in order to help the Punjab officials’ release from the Nowshera Prison.
He, however, added that the Nowshera judicial magistrate had rejected bail applications of Punjab police twice on the grounds that the Nowshera district and sessions judge had charged police officials under section 365-A and other non-bailable sections. The judges had also observed that Punjab police should be produced in the Peshawar Anti-Terrorism Court as they have been charged in a kidnapping case in the warrant order. The lawyer said Nowshera Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Rauf Khattak had also fixed August 30 for their bail applications.
Imtiaz Begum, 70, approached the Nowshera district and sessions judge court on August 17 and registered a complaint that Punjab police has raided her house at 5am, thrashing the housewives and ‘kidnapping’ her nephew, Qazi Samad.
She informed the court that she initially called Rescue-15 before going to the concerned police station, which refused to take any action against the Punjab officials. To this, the court issued directives to the Frontier police stationed at Attock Bridge, which stopped a vehicle from which they recovered the kidnapped boy and arrested some officials, while another vehicle of the Punjab police succeeded in crossing over to Punjab from Attock Bridge.
According to police, Punjab officials had raided Qazi Sammad’s house to arrest his uncle, who was allegedly wanted by the Punjab police in several cases of car snatching. “Under the law, police of one province must seek permission from the home secretary before arresting a criminal or raiding an area in another province. Afterwards, police will communicate their cause of action with the local police station, which would register it in its daily dairy report and action would be taken with the help of local police,” Advocate Astaghfirullah stated. But in this case, neither the local police station was taken into confidence, nor was the matter brought into the notice of the NWFP home secretary, he added. |
| Accused in PM attack case sent to Adiala jail | | | |
| Written by admin | | Monday, 27 August 2007 | | FATEHJANG: The Fateh Jang police arrested two proclaimed offenders, allegedly involved in suicide attack on prime minister and presented them before Anti-terrorism Court. The two arrested men Maulvi Muhammad Imtiaz and Muhammad Usman were presented before judge ATC-II Sakhi Muhammad Kahot. The court sent them to Central Jail, Adiala on judicial remand for 14 days. Special Elite Force Commandos and security personnel had taken stringent security measures in district Kachehry and inside court premises. It may be recalled that seven people have already been awarded death sentence and life imprisonment in this case while one accused was acquitted. |
| Hindus, Sikhs to celebrate Rakhi festival
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| Written by admin | | Monday, 27 August 2007 | TAXILA: Scores of Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan's rural Sindh and the federally administered tribal areas bordering Afghanistan have poured into Gurdwara Panja Sahib, in Hasanabdal, to celebrate the three-day cultural festival Raksha Bandhan, commonly known as Rakhi. The main Raksha Bandhan event to be held today at the Gurdwara Punja Sahib, Hasanabdal. During the celebrations, women and girls tie rakhi (a piece of thread) around their brothers' wrists. The siblings pray for each other and the brother pledges to protect his sister and gives her a gift. After the ritual, they seek their parents and elders' blessings and visit relatives and friends to greet one another. The festival takes place on a poornima (full moon) in the month of Shravan (belonging to the Hindu calendar) each year and Hindus and Sikhs jointly celebrate the festival at the Punja Sahib. "The Rakhi Festival is more of a cultural festival than a religious one and is celebrated in Pakistan and different parts of world with fervour and enthusiasm," a devotee from rural Sindh said. |
| Four members of a family killed and three others injured | | | |
| Written by admin | | Monday, 27 August 2007 | | FATEHJANG: Four members of a family, including a minor girl, were killed and three others injured in a traffic accident on Kohat Road near Fateh Jang on Saturday. The seven-member family, including four women and two minor girls, was coming to Islamabad from Kohat in a car. Upon reaching Bara Meel, driver Azmat Hayat lost control of the vehicle while trying to avoid a bad patch on road and rammed the car into a roadside tree. |
| Free textbooks to be distributed among schools students | | | |
| Written by admin | | Thursday, 23 August 2007 | | JAND: As many as 0.325 million free of cost textbooks would be provided to the students of 1300 government schools in Attock district. Talking to APP here on Thursday, District Education Officer (DEO-Sec), Malik Muhammad Ashraf said that these books were stored in different tehsil warehouses adding that heads of the schools have been directed to collect these books and distribute among the needy children. He said that the education department had also provided transportation charges to shift the books to respective schools. Muhammad Ashraf said that 71460 books would distributed in Tehsil Jhand, while 54540 in Pindighab, 51114 in FatahJang, 50410 in Hassanabadl and 97598 books would be distributed in Tehsil Hazro. |
| Heavy downpour lashes Lahore | | | |
| Written by admin | | Wednesday, 22 August 2007 | A heavy downpour lashed the provincial metropolis on Wednesday afternoon, turning thoroughfares into rivulets and creating hardship for the residents of low-lying areas.
The rain which started at about 12.20 pm continued for about an hour, with the local Met office recording 16.0 mm rain in the city and 11.00 mm rain at the airport.
Various localities in the walled city and other low lying areas including Krishan Nagar, Sandah, Badami Bagh, Anguri Bagh, Walton, Kainchi and Chungi Amar Sadhu were choked with water, while several main roads even in posh localities including Township and Jauhar Town also appeared to be streams.
According to the Met report, the monsoon low over northeastern Madhya Pradesh has weakened and moved northwestwards effecting southeastern Rajasthan, while the monsoon current from Bay of Bengal is reaching Punjab upto 5000 feet.
Scattered thunderstorm with rain has been forecast for Kashmir, northern Punjab and southern Sindh for the next 24 hours. Scattered thunderstorm and rain has also been forecast for lower catchments of rivers Indus, Jhelum and Chenab, and isolated thunderstorm for lower catchments areas of rivers Ravi and Sutlej, for next 24 hours.
Meanwhile, according to Flood Forecasting Division report river Indus is in low flood at Guddu and Sukkur while river Ravi is also in low flood at Balloki.
Water flow at Guddu is steady while it is rising at Sukkur. According to a computerised forecast it is likely to rise from 219,000 cusecs to 230,000 - 290,000 cusecs during the next 24 hours.
River Chitral is in high flood at Chitral while river Kabul is in medium flood at Adezai.
Cities that received rain during the last 24 hours till Wednesday morning are Karachi 67mm, Hyderabad 38 mm, Chattarklass 25 mm, Muzaffarabad 17 mm, Noorpur Thal 15 mm, Nawabshah 7 mm, Palandri 5 mm, Attock and Murree 4 mm each, and Daggar and Kamra 1 mm each. |
| FBR promotes e-filing of returns | | | |
| Written by admin | | Wednesday, 22 August 2007 | The Federal Board of Revenue has launched a countrywide campaign to educate corporate and non-corporate taxpayers about filing of e-returns during the current fiscal 2007-08, Member Direct Taxes, Salman Nabi, told The News.
In a brief chat here on Wednesday, he said the FBR had developed a one-page return form in order to facilitate the taxpayers. “It would be mandatory only for the corporate sector to file e-returns this year,” he added.
The non-corporate sector would have the option either to file e-returns or submit manually during the current fiscal year.
There are 1.7 million return filers out of the country’s population of 160 million.
The FBR plans to achieve a 20 per cent growth in the number of return filers during tax year 2007.
Salman Nabi said the FBR received around 13,000 returns from the corporate sector in the last fiscal and expects to achieve desired growth in the current year.
When asked about non-compliance by the corporate sector, he said many companies did not exist, but the FBR continued its efforts to pursue all potential companies to file returns by the due date.
Meanwhile, the first meeting of the Regional Tax Advisory Committee of Medium Taxpayer Unit, Rawalpindi was held on Wednesday. The MTU Rawalpindi caters to the needs of 140,000 taxpayers, out of a population of nine million.
The meeting was chaired by the Director General Regional Tax Office Rawalpindi, Iqbal Muzaffar and attended by representatives of trade bodies of Rawalpindi, Jhelum, Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Tax Bar Association Rawalpindi and Attock, income tax and sales tax departments, Fauji Fertiliser Company, Attock Oil Company and Pakistan Tobacco Company.
RTO DG Iqbal Muzaffar and Collector Sales Tax Nasir-ud-din Mehboob gave presentations to the committee, followed by discussions on agenda items including filing of returns for tax year 2007 and broadening of tax base.
The members of the committee raised different queries, which were answered by the income tax and sales tax officials.
However, certain unresolved issues were promised to be forwarded to the FBR for its clarification.
The committee members were told that in order to make the filing of returns easier and as a step further in tax facilitation through simplification of business procedures and processes, the FBR had prepared a simplified one-page income tax return form, available on the board’s website www.cbr.gov.pk.
The committee members were urged to convince the people around them to pay their due taxes and file returns by the stipulated date ie September 30. |
| Under-served areas to get telecom facility | | | |
| Written by admin | | Monday, 20 August 2007 | ATTOCK: Minister for IT and Telecom Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari on Saturday unveiled a plan to provide telecommunication services to six under-served areas of the country, said a ministry statement.
“The six geographical areas marked out in the divisions of Malakand, Sukkur, Sibi, Chaghai, DG Khan and Attock due to a large part of the population in these areas still in want of telecommunication services, will be covered under a project to be launched within the next few weeks,” the statement quoted the minister as saying.
The minister also chaired the fifth meeting of the Universal Service Fund’s Board of Directors. The meeting was attended by IT Secretary Farrakh Qayyum, Member Telecom Nooruddin Baqai, Telenor Pakistan’s CEO Tore Johnson, WOL CEO Azfar Manzoor and USF CEO Parvez Iftikhar.
“The funds for the project will be provided by the multi-billion Universal Service Fund instituted within the Ministry of IT through annual contributions received from telecom operators,” said the statement.
“The auction of the funds to be provided to the existing telecom operators, which will implement the project, is already under way.”
The minister said the designated under-served areas to be covered under the first phase of the project constituted approximately three per cent of the total population and 23 per cent area of the country.
He said the USF had prepared a plan to achieve 85 per cent population coverage and increase rural teledensity to five per cent by the year 2010.
He said another goal the USF had set to achieve was nationwide broadband penetration, by adding 1.5 million new users by the year 2010.
“Today, our teledensity is 42 per cent and our mobile phone subscribers’ base has gone beyond 60 million, prompting the government to introduce mobile phone banking which will further facilitate the subscribers in transferring their money from one place to another with a click of their handsets,” Leghari said.
He said the benefits of growth in the telecom sector were myriad and the whole economy had benefited with over 200,000 jobs created directly or indirectly during the last few years.
He stressed the exponential growth in the telecom sector owed a lot to consistent backing from the president and the prime minister to the ministry in its efforts to liberalise and deregulate the sector to ensure open competition. |
| Six arrested, kidnapped person recovered | | | |
| Written by admin | | Sunday, 19 August 2007 | | ATTOCK: The Islahi Committee raided a den of criminals and arrested six alleged kidnappers besides recovering a kidnapped person, Noor Muhammad, from their custody Thursday. Noor, a resident of Pindigheb in Attock district of Punjab, was lifted during his visit to the area 16 days ago by a gang led by Wajid Ali alias Buddagay and was kept at Kundao area of the Frontier Region (FR) Kohat. The kidnappers had demanded Rs3.7 million as ransom for his release. Members of the Islahi Committee got hold of the gang leader, Wajid, when he came to collect ransom money from a relative of the abducted person, who later revealed names of other gang members. Noor Muhammad thanked Islahi Committee for making his safe release possible. Committee members also handed over the recovered cars and other goods to the owners. |
| Metro train service in twin cities still a dream | | | |
| Written by admin | | Sunday, 19 August 2007 | FATEHJANG: The metro train service in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad is still a dream, as the Punjab government has not granted a No Objection Certificate (NoC) to the Railways Ministry to initiate the project despite the passage of six months, it is learnt.
Sources told Daily Times on Monday that the ministry had written in March to the Punjab chief minister for the NoC to start the train service in the twin cities and had sent three reminders in April, May and June, but the Punjab government had not responded. “The ministry will take up the matter with the prime minister to solve the problem,” said the sources, adding that the ministry had chalked out the plan to introduce the train service on the directives of the prime minister and president. “Sources said the federal government had more interest in the project as the increasing number of vehicles, insufficient roads infrastructure and poor traffic management had made driving on the twin cities’ roads a nightmare. “Islamabad, being a centre of economic and service activities, is attracting traffic from all over the country and a significant growth of both cities needs improved commuting facilities,” they said. Sources said that mobility between the two cities was a major problem being faced by the residents daily, adding that there was no organised bus service operating in the capital and between the twin cities.
According to statistics of the Regional Transport Authority, around 1,600 vans and minibuses travelled on 16 routes within the capital and between the twin cities. It is estimated that around 158,000 passengers travel by public transport daily between the two cities. Sources said that around 20 international companies, including those from China, Germany and UK had expressed interest in the project. They said the feasibility study would be conducted by the end of September once the ministry obtained the NoC from the Punjab government. They said the ministry would form a committee comprising of members from the Capital Development Authority (CDA), the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA), the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board, the Chaklala Cantonment Board and the Rawalpindi district government to monitor the metro train service’s routes. They said the experts had suggested four routes, including Sihala to Barri Imam, Chaklala Railway Station to Faisal Masjid via Pirwadhai, Fateh Jang to Secretariat and Rawalpindi Railway Station to Pakistan Secretariat, adding that the final decision would be taken after the feasibility study in consultation with the monitoring committee. |
| Afghan refugees have made a come back | | | |
| Written by admin | | Friday, 17 August 2007 |  ATTOCK: The recently repatriated Afghan refugees have made a come back as many of the repatriatedAs per details, thousands of Afghan refugees repatriated from Pakistan after being given financial assistance four months ago have stormed the Sanjawal Cantt area of Attock where they have been residing since coming to the country for the first time after Russia attacked Afghanistan in 1979. |
| 6 Motorways will be constructed till next 5 years | | | |
| Written by admin | | Thursday, 16 August 2007 |  ISLAMABAD: The Federal Minister for telecommunication Shamim Siddiqui told the National Assembly on Friday hat about 6 Motorways and Expressways will be constructed till next 5 years which will cost Rs. 520 billion. According to the details, he told the National Assembly during the question hour that the opposition is creating hurdles in the construction of Karachi Liari Expressway by not allowing removing the encroachments from the road. |
| Boys outsmart girls by securing top positions in all groups | | | |
| Written by admin | | Thursday, 16 August 2007 | The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Rawalpindi, here on Wednesday announced the result of Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) Part II Annual Examination 2007 with a pass percentage of 70.27.
The female candidates gave better performance as their overall result was 76% while for male students it was 60%. However, male candidates obtained top two positions, besides securing first slots in all groups.
In all, 40,985 candidates appeared in the examination. Out of whom, 28,781 passed all subjects. The candidates who passed all subjects include 9,564 male and 19,217 female candidates.
Muhammad Omer Zahid (roll number 723876) of Punjab College of Information Technology, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi, secured overall first position by obtaining 990 marks out of 1,100. Muhammad Bilal Akhtar (roll number 702530) of Cadet College Hassanabdal stood second with 974 marks. Mawra Masud (roll number 700076) of Community Model Girls Higher Secondary School, Pindigheb (Attock), was third with 973 marks.
Omer Zahid appeared in pre-engineering group, while candidates who obtained second and third positions belonged to pre-medical group. In pre-medical group (boys), first three slots were grabbed by Cadet College Hassanabdal. Muhammad Bilal Akhtar was followed by Tanveer Abbas (roll number 702502) with 965 marks and Khalid Nawaz Bajwa (roll number 702531) with 955 marks. |
| Audit of 122 NGOs in district Attock | | | |
| Written by admin | | Wednesday, 15 August 2007 | | ATTOCK: A comprehensive programme has been chalked out to carry out audit of 122 NGOs working in different areas of Attock district. Chairman District Co-ordination Council, Muhammad Tehseen, said that an audit team had been constituted to carry out audit of the NGOs. He said the team would visit tehsil Jand on September 1, Hazro on September 4, Hassanabdal on Sep.8, Pindigheb Sept. 9 and Fateh Jang as September 11. He said that audit of all NGOs would be carried out thoroughly without any leniency and the registration of dormant NGOs would be canceled. |
| Fateh Jang in price hike grip | | | |
| Written by admin | | Wednesday, 15 August 2007 | | FATEHJANG: Residents of different tehsils of district Attock especially the inhabitants of Tehsil Fateh Jang have alleged that Price Control Committee of district Attock has failed to control the price hike of daily eatables. Prices of daily eatables including vegetables and fruits are on rise in the Fateh Jang as the shopkeepers and fruit, vegetables sellers are charging the price of vegetables and fruits own their own well. Talking to PPI, they told area price control committee has failed to check the situation and the they were compelled to buy daily eatables on high rates. They demanded to the high-ups of the district government to monitor the situation and to make arrangements for checking the price hike. |
| Pindi Gheb transporters fleecing commuters | | | |
| Written by admin | | Wednesday, 15 August 2007 | PINDIGHEB: Increase of the fare by the public transport plying on different routes of Tehsil Pindi Gheb have irked commuters as they are charging extra fare from the commuters. The Pindi Gheb transporters running public transporters on different routes including Rawalpinidi, Lahore, Attock, Mathial, Kohat and other adjoining areas have increased the fare without any justification and notification.
Area Commuters told PPI that transporters are charging Rs.10 and 15 extra forms from them for few weeks. They said that they have also complained to the authorities concerned to check malpractices, but they don't care about the plight of the poor commuters. They said that unjust increase in fare on many routes led to quarrels between transporters and commuters. They alleged that concerned traffic authorities have no check on the transporters, as they are involved in traffic law violations. They have demanded to authority concerned to strictly check the different routes transporters fear list and strict action to take against violators. |
| Hassanabdal water supply project starts | | | |
| Written by admin | | Wednesday, 15 August 2007 | | HASSANABDAL: Work on Hassanabdal water supply project was started under the supervision of Naib Nazim. City Nazim Union Council 27 said that water equipments of Rs. 1.6 million were reached on spot. Talking to the newsmen here on Monday he said work on water supply project was in full swing. He said that after completion of said project inhabitants of whole Tehsil would avail the clean drinking water facility. |
| Attock Police recover Arms. | | | |
| Written by admin | | Tuesday, 14 August 2007 | | ATTOCK: Attock Police have recovered arms and ammunition during its drive against illegal arms. District Police Officer (DPO) Attock Zafar Iqbal Awan told reporters that six hand grenades were recovered from an accused Asad Sindhu from Grand Trunk (GT) Road. DPO said pistols, revolvers and cartridges were also recovered from Munawar, Baqir, Imran, Asad, Ijaz, Yaqoob and Rab Nawaz from Attock Khurd, Jand, Fateh Jang, Hassan Abdal and Hazro. Police have arrested all accused persons under arms act and sent them jail. |
| Development works under progress in Fateh Jang | | | |
| Written by admin | | Tuesday, 14 August 2007 | | FATEHJANG: Under the Prime Minister package programme lot of construction development work were stated in the different localities of Tehsil Attock. District Nazim Attock Major Retired Sardar Tahir Siddique in a briefing said that different development projects including provision of Sui-Gas facility, electricity, road construction projects were under progress in Attock. He said that Sui-gas provision lines laying process was also under progress in the area especially in Tehsil Fateh Jang. |
| Rs. 20 million issued for Hassanabdal Stadium construction | | | |
| Written by admin | | Tuesday, 14 August 2007 | | Tehsil Naib Nazim Hassanabdal has said that government has issued Rs. 20 million for the construction work of Hassanabdal Stadium. Talking to the newsmen he said that Prime Minister has issued funds of Rs. 20 million for Tehsil. Area residents welcomed steps of Prime Minister and added that this would definitely boost the Sports activities among the area youth. |
| Hasanabdal, Taxila transporters charging high fare | | | |
| Written by admin | | Tuesday, 14 August 2007 | Local commuters of Tehsils Hassan Abdal and Taxila have expressed concern over the high fare and alleged that transporters are charging rupees five to ten extra form them.
Commuters said that they are facing this situation for last few weeks and also complained to the authorities concerned but so far responsible traffic authorities did not take any action for the problems solution. They shouted against this sudden rise in public transport fare. Rifts and quarrels among transporters and commuters have been increased due to the fare increase. Commuters threatened to hold a protest demonstration against the rise in public transport fare on Hassan Abdal to Taxila and Rawalpindi. |
| Attock Bazaar renovation, beautification work started. | | | |
| Written by admin | | Monday, 13 August 2007 |  ATTOCK: Renovation, beautification and carpeting work of busiest Civil Bazaar Attock has been started. Renovation work has been started on the special direction of district nazim Major Tahir Sadiq. A total sum of Rs 3.7 million will be spent on this project. Decoration of Fawara Chowk was also included in this project. Besides, the Attock Stadium is also being constructed which is under the control of Pakistan Cricket Borad. |
| Govt. issues Rs. 6.3 million for Fateh Jang hospital | | | |
| Written by admin | | Monday, 13 August 2007 | | The Punjab government has issued funds of Rs. 6.3 million for the construction of four new blocks of Tehsil headquarter Hospital Fateh Jang. Talking to the newsmen Tehsil Nazim Fateh Jang has said that issued funds would be utilized for providing the better health facilities in hospital. He said that new departments would also be opened in hospital so that patients could avail better and modern health facilities in hospital. |
| Attock localities lack sanitation, roads | | | |
| Written by admin | | Sunday, 12 August 2007 | Residents of different localities of the District headquarters town here are concerned due to miserable condition of sanitation and roads. Due to apathy of the local authorities, it seems there is nobody to take care of the civic problems.  Peoples Colony known for decades as a posh locality of the city, is among those areas waiting for removal of garbage, repair of dilapidated roads and streets. Residents of the whole District headquarter town particularly peoples colony and adjoining areas are facing problems due to lack of sanitation and dilapidated condition of roads and streets. The low income colony was a project of the Punjab housing and physical planning department initiated in early seventies. Later the colony was handed over to the Municipal Committee Attock. Tehsil Municipal Administration and Punjab excise and taxation departments receive huge taxes from the residents. But their performance in provision of basis needs is not up to the mark as they provide no civic amenities. Residents have expressed concern on lack of sanitation and dilapidated condition of roads and streets in the peoples colony and demanded the Nazim to take remedial measures for provision of basic facilities in the area once known as posh one. They complained that choked gutters are releasing filth in almost all streets causing serious problems for school and college going students and elders offering prayers. They said that they had drawn the attention of the TMA and other concerned departments many times, but no one cares the official departments had turned blind eyes towards genuine problems. They have demanded the high-ups of the District and tehsil governments Attock to do something for the repair of dilapidated roads, streets and improvement of sanitation. They regretted that their genuine problems are not being resolved despite the good thing that a veteran political activist Qazi Khalid Mahmud Khan of Jatiyal the Tehsil Nazim heads TMA. Qazi Khalid was President of the students union of the local college in late sixties and played an active role in the movement against Ayub Khan. Later he remained an activist of the PNA movement and founding District President of Tehrik-I-Istiqlal of Air Marshal (Retd) Asghar Khan. They hoped that keeping in view previous struggle of the tehsil nazim, their problems would be resolved without any further delay and people paying huge taxes to the local and provincial governments would be relieves from hardship. |
| Residents complain against telephone department PindiGheb | | | |
| Written by admin | | Saturday, 11 August 2007 | PINDIGHEB: Residents of Pindi Gheb have expressed their deep concern over the poor performance  of Telephone Department Pindi Gheb. According to details, subscribers alleged the staff of telephone department for delaying tactics in provision of new telephone connections. While complaining they said that they have moved several complaints in the office of concerned authorities to resolve the problems but they have turned deaf ears towards our problems. "We have submitted applications for new connections since long but no action has been taken so far', a government employee said. The residents of the area expressed by saying that they were fed up with the attitude and delaying policy of telephone department towards provision of new connections. "We have moved several complaints in the office of the concerned authorities to remove technical faults but they are not paying attention towards this matter as well", an old lady said. Consumers disclosed that these problems have not only Districturbing the routine life of citizens but also creating inconvenience for them as they are cut of from the whole world. They demanded high-ups of the concerned department to take immediate steps regarding provision of new connections removal of technical faults from the lines. |
| Additional developmental funds for Fateh Jang approved. | | | |
| Written by admin | | Saturday, 11 August 2007 | | Monthly meeting of Tehsil Council Fateh Jang was held here on Tuesday in which the additional developmental funds were approved for area. Meeting held under the supervision of Naib Tehsil. Meeting members detail discussed the work progress of under developmental works of the area. Additional development funds of the projects like clean drinking water supply, health and education sectors were also approved in the meeting. |
| Attock transporters fleecing commuters by charging high fares | | | |
| Written by admin | | Saturday, 11 August 2007 | The transporters plying vehicles on different routes of District Attock are fleecing commuters by charging high fares and non-completion of their allotted routes. According to details, local commuters different areas of Attock including Fateh Jang, Bassal, Pandi Ghab, Hazreo, Batthar, Door Dad have expressed concern over the high fares of these routes and held that the area traffic police responsible for it. While talking to PPI correspondent here commuters complained that the overcharging on these routes have become routine matter but responsible concerned traffic authorities have no check on matter. A passenger said "we have lodged several complaints in the office of area traffic police for the redresser of their genuine problem, but no heed had been given towards the persistent problem so far. Scuffles among transporters and passengers became routine matters on the issue of high fares and if any body complain or protest against this they were not only abused but also ejected out of the van and left him in lurch he added.Commuters have demanded to the high officials of concerned traffic authority and area traffic police to take notice of the matters and solve it on permanent basis. |
| Peoples Colony Attock 's dwellers complain lack of sanitation | | | |
| Written by admin | | Thursday, 09 August 2007 | Residents of the people's colony here are concerned due to miserable condition of sanitation and roads. Due to apathy of the local authorities, it seems there is nobody to take care of the civic problems of the British era 's town. People's Colony known for decades as a posh locality of the city, is among those areas waiting for removal of garbage, repair of dilapidated roads and streets. Residents are facing problems due to lack of sanitation and dilapidated condition of roads and streets. The low-income colony was a project of the Punjab housing and physical planning department initiated in early seventies. Later the colony was handed over to the Municipal Committee Attock. Tehsil Municipal Administration and Punjab excise and taxation departments receive huge taxes from the residents. But their performance in provision of basis needs is not up to the mark as they provide no civic amenities. Residents have expressed concern on lack of sanitation and dilapidated condition of roads and streets in the peoples colony and demanded the Nazim to take remedial measures for provision of basic facilities in the area once known as posh one. They complained that choked gutters are releasing filth in almost all streets causing serious problems for school and college going students and elders offering prayers. They said that they had drawn the attention of the TMA and other concerned departments many times, but no one cares the official departments had turned blind eyes towards genuine problems. They have demanded the high-ups of the District and tehsil governments Attock to do something for the repair of dilapidated roads, streets and improvement of sanitation. They hoped their problems would be resolved without any further delay and people paying huge taxes to the local and provincial governments would be relieved from hardship. |
| Speaker NA forms committee for investigating death of 5 children in Attock | | | |
| Written by admin | | Wednesday, 08 August 2007 | ATTOCK:  Speaker National Assembly Ch Amir Hussain has formed a special committee to investigate the death of 5 children in gas leakage incident in Attock.
State Minister Malik Amin Aslam tabled a motion in the house that a committee be constituted for investigating the death of 5 innocent children due to gas leakage in Attock. The motion was approved by the house.
Upon the approval Speaker NA formed the committee consisting of members of the Parliament.
The names of the members of the committee would be announced after consultations with Malik Amin Aslam. |
| Independence Day celebration arrangements finalized in Attock | | | |
| Written by admin | | Wednesday, 08 August 2007 |  District administration Attock has finalized all the arrangements regarding the celebration of the Independence Day on August 14. In order to celebrate the Day in rich manner rallies, seminars, special functions including quiz programmers and the sports competition among the youth would be held on the Independence Day. A special meeting under the chair of District coordination officer Attock held here, in which participants have reviewed the Independence celebration arrangements. Free food along with the different taste of sweets would be presented to the prisoners of District Jail Attock on the Independence Day, meeting decided. Five days left for the spice day, the people of Attock are busy in making arrangements to observe the day in a befitting manner. National flags, bags selling are in its high pick in different bazaars of main markets of the district. Large number of shops have been opened both in district Attock to sell banners, buntings and flags for decoration on the day. All national dailies will bring out special supplements to highlight the significance of the day. |
| Bakery products price on rise in Attock | | | |
| Written by admin | | Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |  ATTOCK: The prices of daily edibles especially the bakery product prices are very high in different areas of District Attock as most of the shopkeepers taking extra Rs. 10 to 20 per kg from the customers. In a survey conducted by PPI Thursday revealed that most of the shopkeepers involved in overcharging form customers as they selling the bakery products like yogurt, different brand of baskets, sweets, nimkpary, bread, butter milk and other products on high rates.
Area customers alleged that district government and price control committees have failed to control this situation. Buyers asked the local government to check this alarming situation and solve this matter before the announcement of the next financial year budget. |
| Timber Mafia gang busted in Fateh Jang | | | |
| Written by admin | | Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |  FATEHJANG: A raiding party headed by the Sub divisional Forests Officer busted a gang of timber Mafia here. The team recovered huge quantity of timber from their possession and imposed a fine of s 36.000 on timber smugglers. The accused had been cutting tim |
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