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Archive |2019-05-12 16:53:25
‘Truly shameful’: Indian opposition mocks Modi's claim about ordering Balakot airstrikes despite bad weather

Indian opposition leaders on Sunday mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for claiming that he had given the Indian Air Force the green signal to proceed with airstrikes in Balakot on February 26 despite bad weather because “the clouds could actually help our planes escape the radars”...
“No secret that Balakot strikes failed to hit the intended target,” tweeted the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister...
Pakistan |2022-05-19 15:25:00
Was Balakot strike more damaging to Pakistan or Imran's ouster, asks Asad Umar

Senior PTI leader and former planning minister Asad Umar on Thursday questioned whether the airstrike by India in Balakot in 2019 was more damaging to Pakistan or the no-confidence vote that saw Imran Khan ousted as prime minister, an event he said led to the country's dire economic straits...
Tell me whether the strike by India in Balakot — in which a crow and 12 trees were hit — caused more damage to Pakistan or the no-confidence...
Archive |2015-06-06 07:14:32
Online education offered to Balakot people

MANSEHRA: The Sungi Development Foundation with the financial assistance of Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) has established two digital hubs in remote union council of Balakot to impart online education to the local people and provide other services to them...
Ms Mehmood said that two digital hubs were established in Karnool and Ghanool and three more would soon be inaugurated in remoter union councils of Balakot...
Archive |2015-04-19 07:41:27
Balakot women taught about power of vote

MANSEHRA: An interactive session was organised in Balakot here on Saturday to create awareness among marginalised segments of society, particularly women, about the power of vote to change the prevailing system...
Awaz Forum of NGO Sungi Development Foundation (SDF) organised the event in connection with the upcoming local bodies polls, which was participated by women from different remote union councils of Balakot...
Pakistan |2017-08-19 19:49:05
Khursheed Shah's helicopter makes emergency landing in Balakot

Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah's helicopter had to make an emergency landing in Balakot on Saturday evening due to bad weather conditions, all on-board remained safe, DawnNews reported...
The leaders then took taxis to travel to a local hotel in Balakot, where they stayed for a short while before heading to their destination by road...
Archive |2016-02-07 06:48:15
New Balakot City hits another snag

While inaugurating work on the New Balakot city housing project in 2007, the then president, Pervez Musharraf, had proudly claimed the proposed city would be the second most planned and well-equipped in the country after Islamabad, the federal capital...
With the dream of moving to own place in New Balakot city unfulfilled since 2009, the earthquake survivors from Balakot red zone continue to be on the streets...
Archive |2015-10-08 06:57:12
The day Balakot died: a journalist’s account

So I left for the north that fateful afternoon, little knowing that I would end up reporting to the world the devastation of Balakot, which lost 10,000 people on Oct 8, 2005...
There, many people told me that the worst-hit town was Balakot...
Archive |2015-08-17 06:27:30
Army to assist police during Balakot re-polling

MANSEHRA: The election commission has deployed army personnel to assist local police in maintaining law and order and curb possible rigging during the re-polling today (Monday) at a women polling station in Kawai union council of Balakot here...
Junaid Qasim, who is an independent candidate, remained tehsil nazim Balakot in 2005...
Pakistan |2015-10-11 08:28:59
Balakot quake survivors protest delay in allotment of plots

MANSEHRA: The quake survivors of red zone in Balakot on Saturday took to the streets in protest against delay in allotment of plots to them in the New Balakot City...
“The programme held on the 10th anniversary of Oct 2005 earthquake in Balakot by the government officials was just a photo session as survivors of the red zone are still living a miserable life and nobody is sincerely working to allot plots to the affected people at the...
Pakistan |2016-10-09 06:55:21
Balakot people still feel the agony of 2005 earthquake

MANSEHRA: The survivors of Balakot observed the 11th anniversary of 2005 earthquake amid protests and tears on Saturday...
The earthquake had claimed over 25,000 lives in Balakot alone...
Archive |2021-03-10 09:05:01
KP signs pact for 300MW Balakot hydropower project

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Tuesday signed an agreement with a Chinese company for the construction of the 300-megawatt Balakot hydropower project...
The CM maintained that power generated by Balakot hydropower project would be provided to local industries as well as to domestic consumers at relatively cheap rates...
Archive |2021-06-11 10:45:01
Most payments for New Balakot land made

PESHAWAR: The land required for setting up New Balakot City was acquired and payment to 90 per cent landowners was made, a high level meeting was told here on Thursday...
The devastating earthquake had shaken the country’s northern parts particularly Hazara and Azad Kashmir in October 2005 that flattened entire Balakot town...
Archive |2021-09-22 10:25:00
Land acquisition begins for 300MW Balakot power project

MANSEHRA: The district administration has begun acquiring over 8,000 kanals of land for the 300 megawatts Balakot hydropower project...
The deputy commissioner, who is also the district collector, said following the imposition of Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, other formalities were being completed to pay the payments to owners whose land was being acquired in four patwar circles of the Balakot tehsil...
Archive |2021-10-07 10:45:01
16 years on, survivors of Balakot quake continue with miserable life

MANSEHRA: Even 16 years after a powerful earthquake turned their life upside down, there is no end to the misery of the survivors of the natural calamity in Balakot tehsil in Mansehra district...
Balakot resident Junaid Alam told Dawn that he clearly remembered the way the earth quacked before the buildings crumbled in no time...
Archive |2021-10-17 12:05:03
PM calls meeting on Balakot housing project

MANSEHRA: Prime Minister Imran Khan has called a meeting of all the stakeholders and heads of the relevant departments on October 18 (Monday) in Islamabad to resolve the issue of allotment of plots in the long-delayed New Balakot City housing project...
An official letter issued by the Prime Minister House has directed the National Disaster Management Authority to submit details of the consultative meetings it held with the Khyber...