CHITRAL: A fire broke out in residential rooms of Chitral police and Chitral Scouts personnel at Ziarat on Monday night. Rescue 1122 said explosive materials were also stored in one of the rooms but the fire was put out before it could reach there. Rescuers reached the spot and extinguished the flames after about an […]
The United Arab Emirates cabinet on Sunday approved the establishment of an embassy in the city of Tel Aviv in Israel, state media said. The UAE and Israel agreed to normalise relations in August, a deal forged largely over shared fears of Iran. Since then, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco have all agreed to establish ties with Israel
Rescuers in China have freed 11 gold miners who were trapped hundreds of metres underground for two weeks. TV footage showed the first miner, who was blindfolded to protect his eyes from the light, being lifted out as emergency workers cheered. The fate of 10 other miners remains unknown, as rescue operations continue to try
GILGIT: An American citizen has hunted the highest-rated Astore markhor, a rare species in Gilgit-Baltistan, after paying $61,500 as a licence fee during the current hunting trophy season. Edward Joseph Hudson hunted the markhor near the Dashkin-Mushkin-Tarbuling (DMT) conservation area in Astore, according to the Gilgit-Baltistan wildlife department. The horns of the hunted animal were
WASHINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden has inducted a second Pakistani American, Salman Ahmed, into his foreign policy team, said a statement issued on Friday. Mr Ahmed, who served as head of strategic planning in the Obama National Security Council, is joining the US State Department as director policy planning. Last month, Mr Biden announced that
CHITRAL: A woman gave birth to a baby girl in a Rescue 1122 ambulance on Friday. Rescue 1122 said the wife of Shirin Khan, a native of Upper Dir currently living in Drosh, was being shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital from Drosh when she gave birth to the baby near a bus stop in
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Dear Sir, I had lodged a complaint on citizen’s portal about the uncalled for blocking of the Lowari tunnel for passenger vehicles at frequent intervals throughout the day. The response I have received is the revelation that the Lowari Tunnel is STILL INCOMPLETE: as “the major electric and mechanical works are not yet done because
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CHITRAL: A patwari was terminated and a tehsildar of land settlement department demoted for tampering with land record and divulging details of land documents to people without approval of the competent authority. A source told this correspondent that the officials involved in tampering with the documents were identified as tehsildar Ihasanullah and patwari Qadir. A
CHITRAL: A cylinder shop with over 100 LPG cylinders was saved from a major disaster by Rescue 1122 in Monday. The emergency service said a fire erupted in the shop located bear the district jail in Denin due to leakage from a cylinder. After being alerted, Rescue 1122 reached the spot and put out the
BOONI: Huge rush of people was seen outside branches of different banks due disruptions in the working of their cash dispensing system on the first working day of the week. The automated teller machines (ATMs) were either down or faced technical faults intermitantly. A bank official told ChitralToday that they received less cash from Chitral
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