ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has appointed Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim as the acting chief justice of Peshawar High Court after the retirement of Justice Mohammad Ibrahim Khan. Following the approval, a notification was issued regarding the appointment of Justice Ibrahim as the acting chief judge of the IHC. The seat vacant on the retirement of […]
Aqib Ullah (Jangbazar Chitral) Have we, hailing from lower Chitral, ever pondered why the people of upper Chitral, mostly from Torkhow, Rech, Mestuj, etc., excel in every field? We cannot deny the reality that 80 to 90 percent of students passing CSS, PMS, or any exams above BPS 17 are from upper Chitral. Wherever you
LAHORE: In a savage act, a man killed his wife along with his seven children in a village located in the Alipur tehsil of Muzaffargarh in Punjab. Police in the area told media that the man used a dagger to kill the children and their mother in their sleep. The motive behind the gruesome act
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BERLIN/DUBAI (Reuters): German airline Lufthansa say it has suspended flights to Tehran due to the situation in the Middle East, which is on alert for possible Iranian retaliation for a suspected Israeli air strike on Iran\’s embassy in Syria. An Iranian news agency briefly stoked tensions when it published an Arabic report on social media
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HUB: As many as 17 people lost their lives and over 35 others were injured when a truck carrying them fell into a ravine in Hub, Balochistan. The victims were going to the shrine of Shah Ahmad Noorani in Khuzdar from Sindh when the accident occurred. The dead and injured were residents of Makli in
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says the government would declare an education emergency in the country and would provide all possible resources to educate children of poor families. He vowed to replicate his idea of free education to children of poor and deserving families by establishing Daanish Schools in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, and
CAIRO (Reuters): Three sons and as many grandchildren of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Palestinian Islamist group and Haniyeh\’s family said. The Israeli military said it was checking the report. Haniyeh, based abroad in Qatar, has been the tough-talking face of Hamas\’ international
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CHITRAL: The upgraded women desk of Chitral police at Zargarandeh was inaugurated by district police officer Iftikhar Shah on April 9, 2024. Speaking on the occasion, the DPO said that the women desk has been equipped with facilities to facilitate complainants and resolve their issues on priority. The women desk was set up by the
CHITRAL: Transporters are overcharging passengers before Eidul Fitr besides keeping vehicles off the road to create shortage of vehicles. Passengers complained to the district administration about the issue on which officials visited the bus terminals and imposed fines on the drivers. A number of people going to Chitral from Islamabad said the drivers of a
NIAGARA FALLS, New York (Reuters): Throngs of skywatchers across North America gazed upward at a blackened sun in the midday dusk on Monday, celebrating with cheers, music and matrimony the first total solar eclipse to darken the continent in seven years. From a Mexican beach resort close to where the eclipse made landfall to the
