RESHUN, Sept 13: The flood-affected people of Reshun are living under the open sky with no relief coming from the government. When the devastating flood hit the village on August 1, about 50 families lost their houses, properties, cattle, gardens and agricultural fields. A local shepherd also lost his two children. Since then, the relief […]
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CHITRAL, Sept 13: The people of Koh union council have demanded of the government to declare the selection process of 102 constables in Frontier Reserve Police for Chitral null and void and adverstise the posts afresh. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Abdul Wakeel, Sarfarz Shah, Mian Gul Jan, Hashim Ahmed and others alleged
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CHITRAL, Sept 12: A flood in the Denin Gol washed away a bridge on the main road cutting off a number of localities in the town on Thursday. The stream was flooded at about 1pm after a light rain. Though traffic on the Chitral-Peshawar road is not affected, a large number of people living in
PESHAWAR, Sept 12: The formation of a commission to recount rejected votes and postal ballot papers in upper Chitral’s provincial constituency was on Thursday put off to September 19 as the tribunal member did not turn up. On September 2, the election tribunal of Peshawar High Court had ordered that a one-man commission should be
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THE resolution emanating from Monday’s all-parties conference seems more of a document of surrender than an expression of a nation’s resolve to fight terrorism. It attributes the loss of thousands of innocent lives not to the militant violence but to the “war, the illegal and immoral drone strikes and the blowback from the actions of
CHITRAL, Sept 11: On the directives of the KPK government, a month-long cleanliness drive was started in Chitral with an awareness walk organized by the district government on Wednesday. The walk started from Chew Bridge and after passing through the Chitral bazaar it ended at the parade ground near the Shahi Masjid. The walk was
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CHITRAL, Sept 11: A collection of newspaper columns on languages and cultures written by Dr Inayatullah Faizi was launched at a ceremony held at the local press club on Wednesday. The book, Zaban o Saqafat (Language and Culture) has been published by the Forum for Language Institute (FLI) Islamabad. The book contains Dr Faizi\’s columns
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CHITRAL, Sept 9: A motorcyclist was injured when he was fired upon by a man in upper Chitral. According to the SHO police station Torkhow, Mohammad Razaq, son of Sher Gulab of Torkhow, was going home on a motorcycle when he was attacked near Qaqlasht by a man holding a pistol who was following him.
