CHITRAL, Nov 24: A Naat competition was held at the Government Higher Secondary School Drosh under the auspices of Preservation of Indigenous Culture and Language (PICL) in collaboration with the Cooperative Approach for Development (CAD). Regional Programme Manager of Hasho Foundation Sultan Mahmood was chief guest while the ceremony was presided over by prominent scholar […]
GILGIT, Nov 23: Panic swept through Gilgit town on Friday evening after a homemade explosive device, exploded in a house situated close to the Police Lines. “There were no casualties whatsoever thank God,” DIG Police Ali Sher told The Express Tribune soon after the blast. While there was no fresh congregation, morning processions were returning
ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: The government decided to suspend cellular and PTCL’s wireless telephone services for the 9th and 10 of Muharram in 49 cities across the country. The suspension will be in effect from 6am to 10pm on both days. Speaking to the media on Friday, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that pillion riding
PESHAWAR, Nov 23: The provincial government has ordered that Taj Noor Khan, a district public prosecutor (BS-19), has been transferred from Buner and posted against the vacant post in Chitral. The government also conferred the powers of magistrate 1st class upon Manzoor Ahmed and Syed Mazhar Ali Shah, officers from the provincial management service (PMS)
By Siraj Ulmulk CHITRAL, Nov 23: There is a very sad story about what happened last week to Chitral’s most famous mosque, the Shahi Masjid, built by my grandfather in 1922 (the work had started in 1910). Every brick was transported from India when no roads were motor-able in Chitral. They were delicately placed, by
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CHITRAL, Nov 23: A zoonosis control office has been opened at the livestock building in Danin, Chitral. It may be noted that zoonosis, also called zoonotic disease, refers to diseases that can be passed from animals, whether wild or domesticated, to humans. Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, Dr Nizamuddin, the assistant director of livestock department,
AJMAL KASAB was nervous just before he died, according to a guard at the prison where he was executed in the city of Pune on November 21st. After India’s president, Pranab Mukherjee, rejected his clemency plea, Mr Kasab became the first person hanged in India since 2004. The public responded, by and large, with a
CHITRAL, Nov 21: The local police exhumed the bodies of two brothers on the orders of a local court who had been allegedly tortured to death by their own brother in Broze village eight months ago. The prosecution had requested the court to order the exhumation of the graves of Habibur Rahman and Saiful Mulk
CHITRAL, Nov 20: Leaders of different societies have demanded of the government to discourage the menace of drugs and illegal cutting of forest trees to save the environment. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, the leaders including former MNA Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali, former Mastuj tehsil nazim Shahzada Sikandar, president of district bar association
RESHUN, Nov 20: A mothers’ day function was held at Samarqand School and College here on Tuesday. A large number of mothers attended the ceremony. Hina Riaz and her friend Najma commenced the function by thanking the entire guests and highlighted the relationship between children and mothers. They also mentioned the great philosophers of the
