MASTUJ: A man shot dead his cousin over a land dispute in Sorlaspur village of Upper Chitral on Monday, local police said. They identified the deceased as Niat Wali, whose body was shifted to Booni for a postmortem. According to the police, Gohar Aman, son of Bulbul, along with his sons Zia and Faizi opened […]
PESHAWAR: Caretaker Chief Minister Syed Arshad Hussain Shah visited Swat on Saturday during which he inspected various public service delivery outlets including hospitals, police stations and rehabilitation centres for drug addicts. He was given a briefing on the progress so far made on various ongoing developmental projects in Malakand Division, including Swat Motorway Phase 2,
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BOONI: A vocational training centre has been opened for women in Booni, the headquarters of Upper Chitral. The centre is aimed at providing training to women of the area in different skills such as sewing, embroidery and fashion designing. The centre will also supply uniforms to different schools to generate revenue. A large number of
PESHAWAR: The deputy commissioner of Lower Chitral, Mr Muhammad Ali Khan, has been transferred and posted as additional secretary home and tribal areas department in Peshawar. In his place, Muhammad Imran, a grade 18 officer of Provincial Management Service, has been posted as the deputy commissioner of Lower Chitral. Muhammad Ali was made the DC
CHITRAL: A minor boy who went missing in a village in Mulkhow was caught at the Ashiret checkpost near Lowari tunnel while being taken to Karachi by his father, police said. Reports in social media earlier said that Sohail Ahmed, son of Ali Ahmed of Kushum village, had gone to Kosht Sandragh village along with
CHITRAL: The dead body of a young unmarried woman was recovered from the riverside near Kuru locality of Jughore on Thursday, Rescue 1122 Lower Chitral said. It said that the unmarried woman had fell into the river from the bridge in front of Chitral Scouts headquarters. The emergency service said the deceased belonged to the
PESHAWAR: Former provincial minister for information belonging to the PTI, Shaukat Yousufzai, was on Wednesday offloaded from a plane going out of the country by airport officials in Peshawar. Shaukat Yousufzai told media that he was going to Saudi Arabia from the Bacha Khan International Airport Peshawar when he was offloaded by the airport security
PESHAWAR: The caretaker KP government has transferred the district police officer (DPO) of Lower Chitral and appointed a new DPO within about three months. According to a notification issued from the office of the inspector general of police, DPO Lower Chitral Ikram Ullah, a grade 18 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP), has
AHMEDABAD (INDIA): At the final of the Men\’s World Cup Cricket Tournament here on Sunday, the so-far unbeatable India crumbled against Australia with the latter lifting the trophy by defeating the host with six wickets. The Indian batting line crumbled after a quite sound start to put up a formidable total against the Australians and
CHITRAL: Civil society and social activists on Saturday strongly condemned alleged attack by workers of a contractor of the Chitral-Mastuj road project on journalist Gul Hamaad Farooqui. Speaking at a press conference here along with the journalist, they said people of Chitral have been complaining against Umar Jan and Co. for highly poor quality work
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