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Saturday, August 28, 2010 Calamity-hit status only for villages By Mohammad Ali Khan Friday, 27 Aug, 2010 PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkwa government has decided to declare villages badly affected by the flash floods as calamity-hit area rather than an entire district. A senior official told Dawn on Thursday that “the government has decided to extend the facility only to those areas where it is needed”. According to the official the provincial Revenue and Estate Department has been directed to furnish details of the damaged public and private properties on the basis of revenue record maintained for each village. “Once the details are furnished, the government will notify the areas as calamity-hit, a status which can offer waver of certain local taxes as a relief to the flood affected households,” said the official. Data collected by the revenue staff would also be used to compensate affected people for the damage caused to their houses by the floods, he said. Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) had categorised the entire province into three catego-ries keeping in view the magnitude of damages the floods had caused in the districts. Severely affected districts included Charsadda, Dera Ismail Khan, Dir Lower, Dir Upper, Nowshera, Peshawar, Shangla, Swat, Tank and Kohistan. Similarly, the medium affected districts consist of Bannu, Battagram, Chitral, Karak, Kohat, Lakki, Malakand, Mansehra and Swabi. Bunair, Hangu, Haripur, Mardan and Abbottabad had been included in the least affected category. Different quarters had been demanding that districts affected by the floods be declared as ‘calamity hit’ to enable the population to avail relief admissible in such case. However, according to the official, the provincial government does not want the relief measure to be misused. He said a notification classifying the calamity-hit areas would be issued only after the revenue department completes its assessment of damage at village level. Details of the damage suffered by the villages in Peshawar district had been compiled and communicated to the PDMA while the exercise was in process in other districts, he said. Declaring an area as calamity hit would bring its population relief as exemption from paying land revenue, water tax, property tax and other local levies. It would also enable the authorities to plead for maximum aid from the federal government, said the official. Revenue lost by the provincial government in the process could run into millions, the official added. 9:11 am bdt Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Stormy winds hit KP, uproot relief camps PESHAWAR: In Peshawar and its surrounding areas, rain and stormy winds have uprooted many camps of flood victims along the Motorway, adding difficulties to the affected. According to the Meteorological Department, central districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa are likely to witness more light showers and windy storms over the next few days. Scenic Swat valley, Buner and adjacent areas are also expected to receive heavy downpours. The Met office has forecast a fresh spell of rain from August 25 in the entire province; but there is no threat of rain induced floods. The rains will, however, bring down the sizzling temperature. SAMAA 9:05 am bdt Sunday, August 22, 2010 City shuts down amid tension By Faraz Khan KARACHI: The situation remained tense in the city on Friday as the Awami National Party (ANP) mourned the death of their leader Ubaidullah Yousufzai, who was gunned down with a colleague on Thursday. Most public transporters preferred to keep their vehicles off roads and people faced severe hardships in reaching their offices and educational institutions. Shops in Saddar, Empress Market, Rabia City, Sohrab Goth, Banaras, Landhi, Keamari and other ANP-dominated areas of the city remained closed, creating immense problems for area residents who could not purchase essential commodities. Rangers detained two men who were forcing shopkeepers to close their businesses in Model Colony, Malir. They were identified as Junaid and Nasir. Two TT pistols were recovered from their possession. Sources said the men belonged to a political party. In some parts of the city, people staged protest demonstrations against the murder of the ANP leader and demanded the arrest of his killers. They chanted slogans against law enforcement agencies for failing to provide adequate security to the people. Meanwhile, a young man was shot dead by unidentified armed men near the Metro Cinema in Orangi Town police limits. The deceased identified as 25-year-old Asif, son of Abdul Rasheed, was a resident of Sector 1, Orangi Town. His body was shifted to the Qatar Hospital from where his family took the body without completing any medico-legal formalities. In Landhi, Bradar Khan and Sangeen Khan were injured in a firing incident near Al Karam Textile Mills. Funeral: The funeral prayer in absentia of Yousufzai was offered at Mardan Chowk on Friday, which was attended by party workers and ANP provincial general secretary Amin Khattak and Provincial Labour Minister Ameer Nawab Khan. The body of the ANP leader was taken to his hometown of Buner. 11:52 pm bdt Sunday, August 15, 2010 Forces hand over four young rebels to parents F.P. Report BUNER: The brigade incharge, Brig Sajid Nissar on the eve of Independence Day, handed over four wanted youth militants to their parents in the presence of elders with a message, army does not believe in harassment rather on mission to establish peaceful society. Those were freed include Mohammad Sharif of Dewana Baba, Salih Zada of Ashezo Mira and Hazrat Hussain, Arifullah of Gokand Valley. They were under captive since army operation in the district, brigadier confirmed. They were made free after complete brainwash to become peaceful and patriot citizen, the brigadier added. In this connection a grand function was organized at government college Dagger's hall in Swari. Assistant district coordination officer-Captain[R] Tahir Zaffar Abassi, district police officer-Falak Naz Khan, DSPs circle and headquarter, and large number of elders attended it. Brigadier Nissar in his brief speech made it clear these under age youth were captured in army operation. They were involved in militancy as they were brain washed by the enemies of the land. The freeing youths also uttered the same words with a promise of preaching rest the anti state elements to shun their petty differences and stand with Pak army to foil the nefarious designs of the enemies. The elders of the area have termed it a good gesture when the forces freed youths to join families with new zeal of patriotism. They commented such positive gestures would pose confidence of locals and the impression of Pak army. Prior to that a grand function was held in the government sentinel model schools Daggar to celebrate Independence Day with great zeal and fervour.conlonel Naseem Abassi was chief guest. Principal of the school Syed Zada, distric secretary scouts-Azizul Hahim and programme organizerShahid Khan were present. On the occasion students from different schools actively participated in a declamation on the topic-"Pak Moment". Students also presented national anthem and songs. The chief guest distributed prizes. 11:13 pm bdt Wanted rebel killed in clash F.P. Report BUNER: In a fresh armed clash between the security forces and militants, a rebel wanted by security agencies, was killed on Saturday, SHO Pir Bala confirmed on phone on Saturday night. The SHO confided that according to some reports the militants were present in the area. The militants opened fire when forces and police cordoned off the area to conduct a search operation. In retaliation one Said Mohammad was killed while other managed to escape by taking advantage of the darkness. 11:11 pm bdt

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Buner Valley

Part of the Malakand division, Buner is surrounded by high hills densely covered by pine and other trees. This scenic district is also known for a number of great saints. Though the majority of the district’s population is descended from the Yousufzai tribes, Buner is also home to other ethnic groups as well as religious minorities, including Sikhs and Hindus.

Agriculture provides the main source of livelihood and wheat, maize and tobacco are the main crops grown here. A significant number of the younger generation works abroad. Unlike a number of its neighbouring districts, Buner is known for its peaceful atmosphere.


Mission; buner.com  and Buner groups

This group is for the Bunerwal brothers and sisters to communicate with each other all over the world. We discuss various issues facing the Buner Valley in particular and the pakhtoon nation in general.
Our Mission is:
To unite our people to fight for their legal rights.
To try our best to improve the standard of eduction by elaborating easy ways.
To improve awareness against common to rare problems e.g health, employment etc.
To remove barriers of superiority and inferiority complexes so that at least a patient could talk to his Doctor and a needy person could ask for his legal right and will not have the fear that the person who is working for him will yell at him. The point is good costumer service and nice behavior is to be improved.
To fight against the drug use and cigarette smoking behavior by improving awareness in the society.
To do what ever we can do for Buner valley in particular and for our Pakhtoon brothers/sisters in general.
To establish better communication between common people and people who are working for them e.g politicians and law enforcement authorities etc.
In short we want to improve the life of our poor but VIP brother/sister who feed us but himself is always ignored.
That is what our mission is.
Important to know:
Every member of this group is equal and have the right to express what ever he/she thinks is right for the betterment of our society.
Offensive and irrelevant posts are strongly prohibited to post on this group. We want to learn and teach respect and nice behavior not to hurt other's feeling.
We strongly recommend to stick to the core issues of the Buner Valley but other news, interesting topics, and general informations (health, education, entertainment etc) are always welcomed.
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