LAHORE, July 12: One of the nine police and prison staff shot dead in Ichra area of Lahore on Thursday morning belonged to Chitral. Police said the dawn attack, in which 10 gunmen stormed a residential property housing officers from the northwest who were in the city for training, bore the hallmarks of a similar assault on an army camp on Monday. The killings raise fears of a fresh wave of violence in Punja ...

ISLAMABAD, July 12: An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale jolted Chitral, other parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well as Islamabad on Thursday. According to Meteorological Office, the epicentre of the quake was 194 kilometres deep in the Hindukush. Moderate tremors were felt in Islamabad and parts of Punjab including Rawalpindi, Lahore, Jehlum, Sargodha, Chiniot, Abbatabad, Malakand, Hafizabad, Kas ...

The afternoon sun slanted across the District Chief of Police’s office as he sat glowering at me in his oversized armchair, gnashing his teeth like some rabid, ethnic Muppet. Sitting in his line of fire, I smiled at nothing in my ridiculous Pashtun disguise, masterfully flaunting the Dumb Tourist Card. “This is no place for tourists!” he barked. “Don’t you know that Chitral is a dangerous place?” “Huh??” I ...

GILGIT, July 11: For the first time, the Imamat Day of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan was officially celebrated in Gilgit-Baltistan on July 11. [caption id="attachment_3071" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="GILGIT: Imamat Day cake is being cut at the CM House."][/caption] In this regard, the provincial government had already declared public holiday on July 11 to facilitate the community in observi ...

CHITRAL, July 12: Some 530 community midwives have been deployed under the Maternal Newborn and Child Health Programme (MNCH) in Chitral. Recently, 102 community midwives were trained at the CMW School in Danin and out of them about 27 were sent to the field. In this connection, a function was held at District Health Development Centre with district coordination officer Rahmatullah Khan Wazir as chief guest ...