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Admission woes: Students find acquiring domicile an irksome process
DC office says additional and assistant commissioners also authorised to sign forms.
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Early to bed...: Fatigue, a leading cause of road accidents
Study reveals sleep-related mishaps on the rise in Pakistan.
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Of a wild nature: Indigenous plant helps small enterprises in Mohmand Agency
Profitable products such as hand fans, ropes, baskets can be made from parts of the ‘meazari’ plant.
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Stalled mid-way: FATA Secretariat abandons tea plantation project in Bajaur
Farmers complain of no support from authorities to set up tea gardens.
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Keeping promises: Education gets lion’s share of provincial budget
Rs100 million allocated for scholarships to be given to girls in select districts.
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Marble industry: In Khyber Agency, power suspension renders 10,000 jobless
Many in the agency fear the increasing unemployment will add to lawlessness and crime.
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Empowering students: FATA Secretariat gives new computers to schools, colleges
Internet, projectors among other facilities provided.
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Economic uplift: FATA’s barren lands may now be cultivable
New dams in Khyber, Mohmand and Waziristan will provide potable water in areas where there is none.
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Plight of the displaced: Relief efforts fall short for Kurram IDPs
Social worker claims 20,000 families have left the agency, but the Durrani Camp has only registered 9,395 of them.
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Agricultural revolution?: Two dams constructed to irrigate 1,808 acres
The Kot Ragha and Maidani dams have been erected in Kurram Agency .