CHITRAL: The district police officers of both Lower and Upper Chitral have been transferred and replaced with new ones. According to a notification issued by the inspector general of the police, Khyber Pakthunkhwa, Ikram Ullah, a grade 18 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) has been appointed as the DPO of Lower Chitral. […]
Kamal A. Jamil DROSH: The dead bodies of two persons believed to have been murdered over a land dispute were recovered from a forest at Kaldam Gol in Drosh on Wednesday. The victims belonged to Shahnigar area of Drosh. They have been identified as Ashraf Nabi, son of Gul Nayab, and Ihsanuddin, son of Nehrabuddin.
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CHITRAL: Mining activities being undertaken in the Nerdat Gol community conserved area near Chitral city have endangered the population of some rich species of wildlife, including snow leopard and Kashmir Markhor. The local community members have expressed their reservations over the grant of lease by the mineral development department to an investor for mining of
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CHITRAL: The dead body of an unidentified person was recovered from the river at Osiak on Tuesday, Rescue 1122 said. The emergency service shifted the dead body to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Drosh pending identification. A few days ago, a teacher had fallen into a river in Rech village of Torkhow. Rescue 1122 had said
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has approved the appointment of Justice Mohammad Ibrahim Khan as the chief justice of Peshawar High Court. The president accorded his approval to the appointment of CJ Peshawar High Court under Article 175 A (13) of the Constitution and on the advice of the prime minister, President Secretariat Press Wing
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has grounded 11 aircraft, including three of its Boeing 777s, as the national flag carrier faces a serious financial crisis due to the uncontrolled flight of dollars and increase in prices of petroleum products. According to sources, the airline, which operates around 30 aircraft, has been facing serious difficulties in
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PESHAWAR: A divisional bench of Peshawar High Court (PHC) granted status quo against re-interviews scheduled for Tuesday (Aug 21) on 16 posts of lecturers and stopped any adverse actions against petitioners on Monday. Khalid Rehman Advocate argued before the bench, comprising of Justice Muhammad Ijaz Sabi and Justice Dr. Khursheed Iqbal Mehrun Nisa along, that
Gul Hamaad Farooqi CHITRAL: The supply of drinking water from Golen Gol to Chitral town remains suspended since Aug 20 (Sunday) due to damages caused to the pipeline from the blasting of the mountain near Nerdeth Gol by the National Highway Authority (NHA) which is constructing the Chitral-Booni road. Consumers had earlier demanded that the
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CHITRAL: The sanitation workers in Chitral town have been protesting for the last three weeks seeking the release of their pending salaries. As a result, garbage have been piling up in the town and its surrounding localities. The employees of the Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) said they had not received their salaries for the last
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MOSCOW: Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years failed when its Luna-25 space craft spun out of control and crashed into the moon after a problem preparing for pre-landing orbit, underscoring the post-Soviet decline of a once mighty space program. Russia’s state space corporation, Roskosmos, said it had lost contact with the craft at 11:57
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