Quetta—Influential persons have been continuing chopping down trees along roads and from official forests without any permission by the government while such activity is badly damaging environment of Balochistan. APP learnt on Monday that highways and roads running throughout Balochistan and official forests have deprived of most of their trees which had been existing for last 40 to 60 years as influential persons have chopped thousands of such trees and minted huge money by selling them. In past, there was a line of Joneepar forests from Ziarat to Kalat through Quetta but now Quetta has deprived of kind of these forests. In Quetta city hundreds of old trees

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Skardu—President of Pakistan and Co- Chairperson of PPP Asif Ali Zardari, has given instructions to the concerned quarters to prepare a comprehensive plan to accelerate developmental activities in Gilgit-Baltistan. This was stated by President PPP Gilgit-Baltistan, Syed Mehdi Shah while addressing a press conference here. He informed that recently a 20-member delegation, led by him met President Asif Ali Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadr Islamabad.The President on the occasion said that first ever reforms were introduced by the then great leader of PPP, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1972. Then in 1994, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto introduced reforms under LFO, and

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Peshawar—Former senior Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Siraj-ul-Haq has said that his party has decided to hold a grand convention of the IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) on Sept 27 to attract the attention of internally community towards the actual situation being faced by the affected people in the aftermath of the military operation Malakand Division.  To hold such a grand convention at Islamabad in order to apprise the international community regarding the real situation of IDPs after the military operation in the region, said Siraj ul Haq while addressing a news conferece at Press club on Monday. He came hard on the elected representatives of various districts of the

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Mirpur—The Chief Secretary of Azad Jammu Kashmir Khalid Sultan here Sunday directed the concerned authorities including WAPDA to accelerate the development works in the under-construction New Mirpur garden city and four new small towns exclusively meant for the affected people of the ongoing Mangla dam raising project. The CS particularly called for the timely completion of the construction work on Rs 1091 million Dhan Gali Bridge over Poonch River on Rawalpindi-Dadayal Road in this district. He was addressing a high level

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Peshawar—President Sugar Dealers Association (SDA) has demanded of the government to take action against the Sugar Mills Association (SMA) for creating artificial sugar crisis for their own benefits. “The mills owners have deliberately hoarded sugar aimed to mint more and more money,” accused Shakirullah, the president of the SDA during a news conference at press club on Monday.  The masses of NWFP are facing sugar crisis, which was artificially created by the mills owners to hoard the product and then sell it at their own prices. The dealers also accused the retailers of selling the sugar at double price while the dealers sell it at the government issue price. If the

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