PESHAWAR: Chitral Students Association (CSA) Peshawar chapter elected Daniyal Saif as its president for the year 2019-20 in an election held here. Mr Saif scored 168 votes against Adnan Sajad who bagged 96 votes. Another aspirant, Basit Ali, remained third with 92 votes. The new president said he would try his best to resolve issues […]
PESHAWAR: Hundreds of teachers of government primary schools in KP have opted for premature retirement over inability to teach their respective subjects in the English language due to the change of the medium of instruction from Urdu to English language around four years ago. Ofvicials said more and more teachers had been taking premature retirement
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CHITRAL: The bodies of two jawans of Northern Light Infantry (NLI) regiment of the army from Chitral could not be brought home due the inclement weather. Naek Akbar Hayat of Harchin, Laspur, and Imran Ali from Wasich, Torkhow, embraced martyrdom in Line of Control (LOC) a couple of days ago. An army helicopter carrying the
YARKHUN: Volunteers from Khruzg and Dizg worked for a couple of days to clear the Chitral-Yarkhun road at Oughhiak Gol in north of Brep that remained blocked due to icing and the recent snowfall. Water of a spring flowing in the small stream had frozen due to the severe cold and spread on the road.
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PESHAWAR: Two persons were injured after a group of Chitralis was allegedly attacked by unidentified people here. Reports said a brawl occurred between three Chitralis, including a wagon driver, and other men after a minor road mishap in Saddar area on Saturday night. The matter was resolved on the spot after police reached the spot.
By Shahana Syed (NUML, Lahore campus) I was tasked with a project to be submitted to NUML (Lahore campus) for the fulfillment of my master’s degree requirement. My project was on the influence of Indian dramas and Indian satellite channels on Chitrali society, especially women. It is a case everywhere in the Upper Chitral that
CHITRAL: The district administration of Chitral on Sunday announced that the three-day anti-polio campaign scheduled to start on Jan 21 had been suspended till further orders. The decision was taken after blockades of different roads following heavy snowfall across the valley. A severe cold wave has also gripped the district necessitating the suspension of
CHITRAL: Heavy snowfall in town and nearby areas on Sunday crippled routine life with reports of road blockades in most parts of the valley. Police said Chitral\’s link with other parts of the country was blocked and there were reports of a large number of passengers stranded on both sides of the Lowari tunnel.
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CHITRAL: An improvised explosive device (IED) went off in Arandu along the Afghan border killing a security personnel on Saturday. Deputy Commissioner Chitral Khurshid Alam Mahsud confirmed the incident and identified the martyr as Javed Ahmed, son of Abdul Hakim, a sepoy of Chitral Levies. He was a resident of the Arandu village. The DC
CHITRAL: A woman ended her life by jumping into the Chitral river on Saturday. According to local people, the mother of three kids was a resident of Toren (upper) Mori. Her body was later recovered from the riverside and shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital Chitral by the police. Relatives of the deceased woman told
