{"id":58516,"date":"2019-12-10T12:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T12:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=58516"},"modified":"2020-01-28T11:54:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T11:54:46","slug":"kp-receive-foreign-aid-nmtd-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-receive-foreign-aid-nmtd-development.html","title":{"rendered":"KP to receive foreign aid for NMTD development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is set to receive foreign support worth PKR 1.75 billion from the Italian and Japanese governments for the development of its infrastructural capacity \u2013 with a special focus on the Newly-Merged-Tribal-Districts (NMTDs), according to news sources.<\/p>\n<p>An announcement was made in this regard on Monday, revealing the Italian government\u2019s agreement to provide a soft loan of PKR 1.2 billion to facilitate the development of KP\u2019s archaeology department and promote religious tourism in the province. The Italian Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo made notification of the said loan agreement following his meeting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-organise-festivals-highlight-culture-merged-tribes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KP Senior Minister on Tourism Atif Khan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As per sources, the meeting discussed issues pertaining to bilateral trade between Italy and KP.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador also revealed Italy\u2019s intention to establish archaeology laboratories in various parts of the province in an effort to secure its historically significant sites. For this end, a special police unit will be set-up and trained to prevent the smuggling of antiquities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-vows-develop-newly-merged-tribal-districts-priority-basis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PM vows to develop newly merged tribal districts on priority basis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minister Atif, in turn, thanked the ambassador for Italy\u2019s generosity. He declared the current, militancy-free situation of the NMTDs to be ideal for luring investor interest; adding that both the federal and provincial governments were geared to promote tourism in KP.<\/p>\n<p>The second tranche of the foreign aid worth PKR 542 million will be provisioned by the Japanese government to build capacity and develop infrastructure for the law enforcement authorities deployed in the NMTDs. An agreement was signed in this regard \u2013 again on Monday \u2013 by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pakistan Resident Representative Ignacio Artaza and Japanese Embassy\u2019s Charge d\u2019Affaires Yusuke Shindo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/mega-projects-planned-promote-tourism-youth-development-tribal-districts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mega projects planned to promote tourism, youth development in tribal districts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the contract, the Japanese government will channel PKR 542 million to build infrastructure and provide training to law enforcement personnel \u2013 in an effort to improve the police\u2019s performance profile and efficacy.<\/p>\n<p>This arrangement is also intended to facilitate the realization of the United Nation\u2019s Amn-o-Insaf Programme\u2019s objectives; which aims to strengthen the rule of law and make it accessible to the region\u2019s marginalised communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is set to receive foreign support worth PKR 1.75 billion from the Italian and Japanese governments for the development of its infrastructural capacity \u2013 with a special focus on the Newly-Merged-Tribal-Districts (NMTDs), according to news sources. An announcement was made in this regard on Monday, revealing the Italian government\u2019s agreement to provide a soft loan of PKR 1.2 billion to facilitate the development of KP\u2019s archaeology department and promote religious tourism in the province. The Italian Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo made notification of the said loan agreement following his meeting with KP Senior Minister on Tourism Atif Khan. As per sources, the meeting discussed issues pertaining to bilateral trade between Italy and KP. The ambassador also revealed Italy\u2019s intention to establish archaeology laboratories in various parts of the province in an effort to secure its historically significant sites. For this end, a special police unit will be set-up and trained to prevent the smuggling of antiquities. Read:\u00a0PM vows to develop newly merged tribal districts on priority basis Minister Atif, in turn, thanked the ambassador for Italy\u2019s generosity. He declared the current, militancy-free situation of the NMTDs to be ideal for luring investor interest; adding that both the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":34892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15020],"tags":[14356],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-developments","8":"tag-details-on-kp-to-receive-foreign-aid-for-nmtd-development","9":"cat-15020-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>KP to receive foreign aid for NMTD development - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Peshawar: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is set to receive foreign support worth PKR 1.75 billion from the Italian and Japanese governments for the development\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-receive-foreign-aid-nmtd-development.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KP to receive foreign aid for NMTD development - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Peshawar: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is set to receive foreign support worth PKR 1.75 billion from the Italian and Japanese governments for the development\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-receive-foreign-aid-nmtd-development.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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