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A project that combines satellite images, mapping technologies and the local knowledge of villagers to help build climate-proof settlements in disaster-prone areas of Pakistan won an international award on Thursday. More than 1 million people have benefited from the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) Pakistan project, which was a gold prize winner at the World Habitat Awards that are organised with the United Nations housing agency (UN-Habitat). AKAH has trained about 50,000 residents to better protect their villages from disasters in the mountainous northern areas which are vulnerable to…

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ISLAMABAD: The cabinet’s economic decision-making body on Thursday did not approve a subsidy of Rs9.5 billion under the prime minister’s industrial package that the Power Division sought to pick the difference between peak and off-peak electricity rates. The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet was not sure about the base of the Rs9.5 billion subsidy claim for the period November 1, 2020 to April 30, 2021 while some of its members forcefully opposed any subsidy, official sources told The Express Tribune. Electricity will be sold to industrial consumers at…

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RAWALPINDI: For the first time, an air quality monitoring mobile station was used to monitor air pollution in one of the busiest areas of the city, the Katcheri Chowk, on Wednesday. Results of the monitoring of pollution in the air from various areas of the garrison city are expected on Thursday (today), officials told The Express Tribune. The Automatic Air Quality Mobile Station has been set up at the Rawalpindi Commissioner Office for air pollution monitoring of Katcheri Chowk, district administration Officials said the use of the mobile station would…

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will launch a Covid-19 vaccination drive in the second quarter of 2021, providing the vaccine to all citizens free of charge, Nausheen Hamid, parliamentary secretary on Health said on Wednesday. In a tweet and a separate media talk, Hamid said that the federal cabinet had approved initial funds to purchase the vaccine. “PTI government will provide the coronavirus vaccine free of cost to the people. Government will start the vaccination from the second quarter of 2021,” she tweeted. Hamid told a private TV channel that phase 3 clinical…

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There are vast trade and investment opportunities in Pakistan, especially in Karachi, which is an international economic centre, said British Deputy High Commissioner Mike Nithariankis. He stated that the UK mission was further trying to promote economic cooperation between the two countries including a boost to trade and investment. “My job is to bring more British people to see enormous trade and investment opportunities, as in Pakistan there is peace, security and better business environment,” he emphasised while speaking at a gathering of aspirants for the Civil Superior Services (CSS).…

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