Launched in 2014, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province took a challenging initiative to plant a billion trees. This was in direct response to the Bonn Challenge (a global goal to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land). Simultaneousl ...
Rise of Drugs addicts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
The drugs addiction among youth of Khyber PakhtunKhwa (KP) is on rise at an alarming pace despite strict legislation and measures of the provincial government to curb this menace. A recent report issued by the Public Health Association KP revealed t ...
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Democracy in its true essence is a governing system in which people use the right of their votes to elect a government for a specified tenure; during this period, the voters keep an eye on the performances of the elected governments and re-elect or r ...
WHY THE FATALITY RATE IS HIGH IN KP?
Pakistan is ranked 29th in the world in terms of death from corona pandemic, where total deaths stands at 673. Moreover, in Asia, Pakistan has been ranked eighth in terms of number of deaths from the virus. The fatality rate from novel coronavirus in ...
Effects of Climate change over the land of KP
“Climate change is a phenomenon that arises due to emissions of greenhouse gases from fuel combustion, deforestation, urbanization and industrialization, resulting in variation of solar energy, temperature and precipitation”. Pakistan is one of the ...
Billion Tree Tsunami Project – Killing two birds with one stone
The ‘Billion Tree Tsunami’ a project started by the PTI government has received appreciation from the national, international community and media organizations. As it has provided jobs to thousands of labourers and daily wage workers amid the Covid-1 ...
Is 18th Amendment sacred?
Discussion on 18th Constitutional Amendment has stirred up once again on mainstream Pakistani media, politicians and social media. The issue came into sharp focus after the Tehreek-e-Insaf Government hinted at re-visiting the amendment. The debates s ...
Neglected and Forgotten – KP Commission on status of women
The surge in the violence against women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the dysfunctional KP Commission on Status of Women (KPCSW) has put a question mark on the attitude of the KP government towards the eradication of violence against women in the provinc ...
How to Cope with Psychological Impact of COVID-19
Since the first case of novel coronavirus disease was diagnosed in December 2019, it has swept across the world and spurred a global response. It has brought abrupt changes in our life style and behavior. The entire world is right now experiencing so ...
Ehsaas Emergency Cash Program
In March 2019, Prime Minister Imran Khan announced the Ehsaas program with much fanfare terming it an important step closer to his promised ‘Riyasat of Madina’ in which the poor and downtrodden would be taken care of, in an elaborative welfare system ...