Taking a page from Punjab Chief
Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s book, the K-P government announced its own Rs1
billion free laptop scheme – named Naway Sahar (New Dawn) – for
students in the province, saying it would hand out 25,000 such laptops
to top-performing students.
Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Announces Free Laptop Scheme Like CM Punjab Laptop Scheme for Talented
Students of KPK in Provincial Budget of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 2012-13
yesterday.
25 thousands free laptops will be distributed in Colleges and Universities...
Monday, June 11, 2012
KPK Budget 2012-13: Salaries, Pensions Increases 20%
For a left-leaning party
battling for its political life in an election year, the Awami National
Party included, surprisingly, little populist spending in the Rs303
billion Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa budget for fiscal year 2013.
In the budget speech delivered at the
provincial assembly on Friday, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister
Muhammad Humayun Khan essentially listed off some of the government’s
political achievements before essentially reading out the entire budget
document, numbers and all.
Far from the political...