Mianwali News Selection  & Announcements

ISLAMABAD (NNI) - Former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf has decided to construct a farmhouse at Piplan in District Mianwali, sources said on Monday. According to the sources, Musharraf’s friends belonging to Piplan have advised him to acquire the land for farmhouse, which is located near the town. The initial dealing has been started with a local family for 25 acres land, as Musharraf himself is thinking to have a farmhouse far from the big cities. It is worth mentioning that there is a property of another military dictator, Gen Ziaul Haq, just a few kilometres away from the proposed farmhouse of Musharraf. The Nation 23rd March,2010

The highest inflation (YoY) was recorded in Mianwali at 18.2 percent, while Quetta registered the lowest inflation (YoY) of 10.6 percent. The city-wise data also revealed that food inflation in Mianwali reached at 23.1 percent whereas it was decreased to 7.2 percent in Quetta that was almost descended, compared with the other cites in the country during the month under review. Bahawalnagar registered the highest non-food inflation of 15.0pc, while the lowest non-food inflation of 8.7pc was observed in Islamabad. The Nation 6th May,2010

Ataullah Isakhelvi becomes the first Pakistani singer to receive the UK Lifetime Achievement award for his entertaining services to the Pakistani community in UK.The ceremony took place on 25th March at Leicester with Foreign Secretary David Miliband as the chief guest .

Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) is the premier R&D Organization in the Agriculture Sector in Pakistan. At its National Agricultural Research Centre it has one of the most advanced facilities for research in agriculture and allied sciences. Spread over an area of 1400 acres and located on the Park Road in the farm land area of Islamabad, NARC has the most modern infrastructure, highly qualified faculty and very well equipped laboratory facilities, which could be easily compared with any international research institution. Since November 2008 PARC has embarked upon an ambitious academic (teaching and research) program at the campus of NARC, in the name of National University of Agricultural Sciences (NUAS), which has been approved by the HEC as “degree granting institution”. NUAS offers admissions in M.Phil and Ph.D. Programs in the following disciplines (Research Themes are available at www.parc.gov.pk): Plant Genomics & Biotechnology (PGB) * Natural Resource Management (NRM) with emphasis on: Animal Genomics & Biotechnology (AGB) - Biotic Resource Science (BRS) Applied Economics (AE) Energy Management in Agriculture (EMA) Bio Saline Agriculture (BSA) Soil and Environmental Sciences (SES) Plant & Environmental Protection (PEP) Water Resource Management (WRM) For details and Admission Forms please visit http://www.parc.gov.pk/NewsRoom/AdNUAS.htm

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Thursday approved 28 development projects, including the Nuclear Fuel Enrichment Plant (NFEP) project worth Rs 14.24 billion. The project, with a Rs 5.57 billion foreign exchange component (FEC), will be undertaken in Mianwali. In a meeting chaired by Finance Minister Shaukat Tareen, ECNEC approved two other projects for the energy sector, including the extension/augmentation of existing 500KV and 220KV grid stations of the National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) through the installation of additional transformers worth Rs 1.93 billion with a Rs 1.37 billion FEC.(Feb,11,2010, Daily Times)

MOL sadly announces the death of Dr. Haroon Ahmed Khan Niazi son of Saeed Akhtar Khan Niazi and Grandson of Dr. Noor Muhammad Khan Niazi. Dr. Haroon passed away at a hospital in London and was buried in his ancestral graveyard (Khanki Khail).May Allah bless his soul and give his loved ones allthe strength to bear the irreparable loss, Ameen

Yousaf Khan Niazi a keen amateur photographer from Mianwali has shared some of his work on Mianwali which is now on display at the Photo Gallery of this site.Please click on Photo Gallery and see the captured beauty of Mianwali. MOL is grateful to the Mr. Yousaf Niazi for the sharing and would appreciate if other visitors of MOL also share their work.

District Police Officer Akbar Khan is trying to rise to the challenge by constituting a special police force, which he said would be made up of locals, but with the same powers as the police. Their main role would be to assist the police in anti-terror efforts. The recruits will be issued guns licensed by the government and will be authorised to use them while pursuing terror suspects. "Their prime task is anti-terrorist action," Khan told BBC. More at (copy and paste in address bar of browser) http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C07%5C07%5Cstory_7-7-2009_pg7_35

Mianwali Online has been experiencing database problems during the last few weeks due to which visitors were unable to post new messages in the discussion forum and also were not able to enter their details in the Email Directory on the is site. The problem was at the Server in USA which has been resolved now and now you can have discussions, get added to the Email Directory . Sorry for the inconvenience.

LONDON, Sept 28 (APP)- Pointing out the past key role played in the national politics by the students, Chairman, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan urged them to re-engage in the national affairs and help the country steer out of its present difficulties. The cricketer-turned-politician was speaking at a function organised by the King’s College Pakistani Society at its premises here on Saturday evening. Addressing an audience of some 400 at the college hall, Imran reminded them of the students role in the independence movement and said they being the educated ones have an important part in the destiny of their country.