PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition of Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) seeking allotment of women and minorities’ reserved seats in the provincial assembly to the party. A larger bench of the court headed by Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim heard the petition during which the five judges were pleaded by SIC’s lawyer Barrister
ISLAMABAD: Retired ambassador Muhammad Aslam Khan from Chitral passed away at a hospital in Kuwait, according to family sources. He was 69. Ambassador Aslam Khan belonged to Shogram village of Upper Chitral and was an officer of the Foreign Service of Pakistan. In September 2014, he was appointed as Pakistan\’s ambassador to Kuwait. Ambassador Khan
DROSH: PTI also occupied temporarily the vacant seat of Tehsil Council chairman of Drosh on Wednesday. The seat was vacated by Shahzada Khalid Pervez after he quitted the PPP and joined the PTI-Parliamentarians of Pervez Khattak for contesting the Feb 8th general elections. Mr Pervez lost the election for PK-2 to PTI\’s Fatehul Mulk Ali
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has constituted a seven-member committee to suggest austerity measures in the government departments. The seven-member committee headed by deputy chairman Planning Division has been directed to submit its report in a week. The committee will suggest reforms in government departments such as cutting pension and PSDP expenditures.
CHITRAL: Light snowfall has started in Lowari area with the Chitral-Peshawar road open for traffic. The weather was cloudy since Wednesday morning and light snowfall started at about 11am, according to the office of the deputy commissioner Lower Chitral. All roads across Chitral are also open, it said. On the direction of Deputy Commissioner Muhammad
