PESHAWAR: The health department has established special wards at the district and tehsil headquarters hospitals for the management of dengue fever...
Also, special committees under the supervision of deputy commissioners are monitoring the situation regarding the prevention and control of the mosquito-borne ailment after emergence of few cases in Peshawar...
BATTAGRAM: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has said that government will award the status of district to Allai tehsil...
He inaugurated several development projects in the district including the newly completed Biari Allai mini-micro hydropower project...
LAHORE: Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on Friday announced granting of the status of district for Jampur following a longstanding demand of its people...
Jampur is a tehsil of Rajanpur district...
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government is going to introduce a two-tier local government system in Punjab and two other provinces with all-powerful mayors, huge development funds and control over many departments...
Punjab has proposed elimination of the tehsil council level in the proposed new set-up...
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Punjab, observed on Friday the May Day across the province by holding seminars, ceremonies and rallies at district and tehsil headquarters...
The PTI Punjab body also organised a ceremony at its provincial secretariat, presided over by PTI Punjab president Ejaz Chaudhry...
SHANGLA: Residents of Chakesar tehsil staged a protest demonstration for the second straight day here on Friday against some influential people of Thakot Battagram for allegedly cutting a high transmission line by firing at it, which has suspended power supply to their tehsil and its adjoining areas...
The protesters were led by district council member Sher Ali, chairman Shangla action committee Jawad Ahmed and others...
MULTAN: Hepatitis C is spreading rapidly in Jampur tehsil of Rajanpur district, claims a female doctor who conducted blood screening of people for the disease in the tehsil through a group of volunteers...
She warns that lack of diagnosis and expensive treatment of hepatitis C will aggravate the situation as the disease can cause liver cancer...
GUJRAT: The candidates belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid have put up a good show in Gujrat tehsil, including its rural areas, despite a relatively low-key campaign by the party’s senior leadership for the local polls...
The Shujaat group of PML-Q had been dominating the local government politics of Gujrat from 1983 to 2005 as the Chaudhrys and their allies got majority in at least six local bodies’ elections held during...
UPPER DIR: The election for the slot of nazim and naib nazim of Wari tehsil, Upper Dir, again ended in a tie on Sunday...
Wari tehsil nazim election was tied on Aug 30 for the first time when the Jamaat-i-Islami candidate Gul Bahadar, elected on reserved seat from JI, filed nomination papers against his own party candidate Hussain Ahmad...
MANSEHRA: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has secured majority in the Mansehra Tehsil Council to form the next local government...
The PML-N had won local body elections in 12 of the total of 36 wards in Mansehra tehsil...
KOHAT: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F, which emerged as the leading party in the district and tehsil council elections in Hangu on May 30, has named its candidate for the tehsil nazim slot...
Sources said that JUI-F would announce the name for the slot of district nazim after the re-polling on July 30...
BATTAGRAM: Even in this modern era of science and technology, the girls of tehsil Alai have been deprived of higher education as there is no state-run girls’ high school for over 300,000 population of the area...
Constructed by Save the Children at a cost of Rs20 million, the high school for girls in Rabat area of Alai tehsil was handed over to education department in January 2015...
UPPER DIR: The Election Commission of Pakistan has postponed elections for nazim and naib nazim of Wari tehsil as the Jamaat-i-Islami got a stay order against them from a local court...
The elections had ended in a tie twice – first on August 30 and later on September 13...
SWABI: Bitter rivals Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F are likely to enter into an alliance to form local government in Chota Lahor tehsil here, sources in the parties told Dawn on Friday...
The current position of the political parties in Chota Lahor is: PTI has four tehsil councillors, JUI-F and PML-N two each and ANP three in the 29-member tehsil house, including five women councillors, and one each minority,...
MANSEHRA: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Friday issued notification of 16 successful candidates, including 12 women, on seats reserved for peasants, youth and women in Mansehra tehsil...
According to the notification, seven women workers of PML-N, four of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and one of Pakistan Peoples Party were declared successful on seats reserved for women...