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High school opens after talks with landowners
 
By Our Correspondent " 10/30/2014 12:00:00 AM
LAKKI MARWAT: A newly built high school in militancyhit Shah Hasankhel village was opened on Wednesday after the administration held successful talks with the landowners.

The project was approved by the previous provincial government of Awami National Party when the village was targeted by a suicide bomber in January 2010. More than 100 people were killed in the attack. The suicide bomber had detonated an explosive-laden truck at a volleyball ground in the village.

The previous government had declared Shah Hasankhel a model village and approved a comprehensive development package for it. Under the package, a high school for boys was built to enable the local students to get secondary education near their homes.

The previous government had also directed the local authorities of education department to start classes in the abandoned building of a middle school on temporary basis.

The communication and works department completed the school project and handed over the building to education department. But a villager, who had donated 10-kanal free of cost for it, did not allow the of ficials of education department to make it functional as he wanted to appoint his own people as Class IV employees in the school.

The provincial government reportedly sanctioned four posts of Class IV employees for the school. On the other hand, another villager, on whose land the temporarily functional middle school was built, locl

The elders of the village approached the officials of education department and brought the closure of middle school and non-functioning of the newly built high school into their notice.

On the request of district education officer, Deputy Commissioner Syed Zafar Ali shah tasked Assistant Commissioner Qayyum Nawaz to visit the village and make the newly built high school functional.

Mr Shah also directed the assistant commissioner to arrest those villagers, who were not allowing the officials to make the school functional.

The assistant commissioner along with members of Marwat Qaumi Jirga, officials of education department and a police contingent visited the village and held talks with the both the landowners.

After successful talks, the high school was opened and teachers and students were shifted to it. The landowners and elders of the village assured the assistant commissioner and jirga members that they would cooperate with teachers to run the school smoothly.
Entrepreneur offers solar-powered transport
 
By Jamal Shahid " 10/30/2014 12:00:00 AM
ISLAMABAD: No beauty in looks, the doorless car parked by the roadside in a city commercial area still attracts inquisitive looks of passersby.

It is a solar-powered prototype vehicle, produced by Ageco company, which dreams of mass producing it to revolutionise public and private transport in sunny Pakistan.

On Monday, the company crossed the threshold when a technical committee of the Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) approved the technology and standards of this alternate energy car without engine.

Industrial production of the solar vehicles can get underway after the federal government`s Engineering Development Boardalso approves its design and technology as safe and road-worthy.

Possibly the most pleasant outcome would be refitting, or replacing the three-wheeler motor rickshaws in the country with solar hybrid electric motor operated kit.

That would rid the cities and towns of the environmental and noise pollutions the present day rickshaws produce.

`Our golf cart-looking solar vehicles are completely Pakistanmade and can be used to go to worl(, or take children to schools, or in place of the motor rickshaws,` said the company`s managing director.

A solar rickshaw would pay its price of Rs150,000 within a year as a study by the manufacturers of the solar hybrid electric motor kit showed that the owners of petrolrun rickshaws spend between Rs12,000 and Rs15,000 a month on the fuel and maintenance ofalso approves its design and technology as safe and road-worthy.

Possibly the most pleasant outcome would be refitting, or replacing the three-wheeler motor rickshaws in the country with solar hybrid electric motor operated kit.

That would rid the cities and towns of the environmental and noise pollutions the present day rickshaws produce.

`Our golf cart-looking solar vehicles are completely Pakistanmade and can be used to go to worl(, or take children to schools, or in place of the motor rickshaws,` said the company`s managing director.

A solar rickshaw would pay its price of Rs150,000 within a year as a study by the manufacturers of the solar hybrid electric motor kit showed that the owners of petrolrun rickshaws spend between Rs12,000 and Rs15,000 a month on the fuel and maintenance oftheir vehicles.

According to manufacturers, the solar vehicle would run 80 kilometres on full charge. The kit`s battery consumes roughly four units 1,000 Watts makes up one unit and would be charging when the vehicle is running in the sun. Extra distance can be covered by adding extra batteries.

The golf cart model has solar panels fitted on the bonnet and roof, and on the doors too in the covered car model.

Spare parts for the vehicles, which have a plastic body on a metal frame, would be no problem as they are entirely made in Pakistan.

An official of the Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority said the technology promised many benefits but mainly reduced pollution and speeds on the roads and lower oil 
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Nawaz Sharif sees agreements with China worth billions of dollars as a 'game-changer' .—AFP/File
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Wednesday his government would again reduce prices of petroleum products next month.
The decision would benefit growers because of a resultant reduction in electricity bills of tubewells as well as the general public in the wake of a decline in transport fares, he said in comments telecast by PTV after presiding over a meeting on energy.
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The prime minister said the decision to reduce prices of petroleum products last month had eased inflationary pressure on the masses, adding that his government wanted to give maximum relief to people. "We will announce a reasonable cut in the prices of petroleum products this time as well."
The prime minister described the recent signing of billions of dollars of agreements with China as a 'game-changer' and said the establishment of power houses would end loadshedding.
"Those staging sit-in may not like to see end of loadshedding, but I am committed to doing it and we will address this problem during the tenure of our government," he added.
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Mr Sharif said he had stated time and again that there was no quick fix of the years-old energy problem. "We are doing our best to address this issue and once the problem is solved, it will be a great service to the nation."
He said it was very unfortunate that because of the sit-ins the Chinese president had to postpone his visit to Pakistan. But on the invitation of the Chinese president, he added, he had visited China and signed billions of dollars of agreements. The Chinese president has promised to visit Pakistan.
The prime minister said a decline in prices of rice in the international market had also affected the growers of Pakistani basmati rice. "Agriculture is the backbone of the country's economy and the government is taking steps to support the sector."
Mr Sharif said reducing prices of agricultural inputs and ensuring better return to growers for their products were on the agenda of his government.
The prime minister said he had directed the ministers for finance and food security to take immediate measures to support farmers, particularly rice growers.