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Private schools defying policy of 10pc free enrolments for poor students, PA told


August 11, 2023

KARACHI: Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Shah on Thursday informed the provincial assembly that all private schools were bound to enroll 10pc poor students free of cost under the law, but many of them were not complying with it. Answering a call attention notice given by Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan lawmaker Mangla Sharma, he said that the education department had been …

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Sindh govt to reconstruct 150-year-old Marie Mata Temple on its site, PA told


July 19, 2023

KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Tuesday was informed that the provincial government would rehabilitate and reconstruct the 150-year-old Marie Mata Temple in Soldier Bazaar. Around eight years ago, in order to renovate the temple deities were moved to a nearby room on a storm water drain. However, last week the structure on the temple’s plot was demolished allegedly by a …

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Cases of hepatitis C on the rise in Sindh, PA told


November 29, 2022

KARACHI: Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho on Monday told the Sindh Assembly that the cases of hepatitis C were increasing in the province, but the provincial government did not have any shortage of funds to deal with the disease. While furnishing statement and replies to the lawmakers’ written and oral questions, she said hepatitis C was curable and …

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Peshawar hospitals run out of beds for Covid patients, PA told


December 3, 2020

PESHAWAR: Major government and private hospitals in Peshawar have run out of beds for coronavirus patients due to a surge in cases, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was informed on Wednesday. Culture and labour minister Shaukat Ali Yousafzai told the house that two government-run tertiary healthcare facilities in Peshawar, including Hayatabad Medical Complex and Khyber Teaching Hospital, and a private hospital …

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KP Govt spent Rs770m on treatment of Covid-19 patients, PA told


August 8, 2020

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has so far spent a total of Rs770 million funds on the treatment of coronavirus patients across the province, the provincial assembly was told on Friday. In written reply to a question of MPA Sirajuddin during the session chaired by Speaker Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani, the health department informed the house that it had spent Rs770 …

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25 fair price bazaars to be set up in Karachi in Ramazan, PA told


May 4, 2019

KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly was on Friday informed that the provincial government had identified 25 places in Karachi to hold fair price bazaars with the advent of Ramazan. “The Sindh cabinet has discussed it in its recent meeting and decided to [organise] such marketplaces across the city,” said Local Government Minister Saeed Ghani while responding to an issue vis-à-vis price …

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2,401 schools functioning in Sindh under PPP scheme, PA told


January 29, 2019

KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly was told on Monday that 2,401 schools were functioning across the province under the public-private partnership programme through the Sindh Education Foundation. Giving replies to the lawmakers’ queries during Question Hour in the provincial assembly, Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah said that 23 schools — 15 in Khairpur and eight in Sukkur — had so …

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Rs44.36bn collected by revenue board in six months, PA told


January 11, 2019

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Thursday informed the Sindh Assembly that the Sindh Revenue Board (SRB) had collected Rs44.36 billion in the first six months of the fiscal year 2018-19. Answering lawmakers’ queries during Question Hour in the assembly, he said that the SRB had collected Rs38bn during the same period in 2017. The CM, who …

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