CHITRAL: After years of delay and public outrcy, the blacktopping of Chitral Airport Road is now underway. The road from Chew bridge to the airport had been in a dilapidated condition with lots of ditches developed on it due to lack of maintenance. Engineer Saeed of the communication and works department told ChitralToday that the […]
CHITRAL: The villages in the valleys of Lot Koh, Kalash and Upper Chitral have been blanketed in yellow as the autumn season has set in which leaves of the deciduous plants changed to yellow, red and golden giving a spectacular view. The local people connected with tourism industry said that Covid-19 badly affected the arrival
CHITRAL: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) held a workers convention at a hotel here which was also attended by senior leaders from the provincial chapter of the party. They included Faisal Karim Kundi, Engineer Humayun Khan, Najmuddin, Sami Khan, Hidayatullah and Salim Khan. The party workers presented their grievances as well as suggestions to strengthen the
ISLAMABAD: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’s (CPEC) Joint Working Group on Transport Infrastructure has included three more highways in the corridor project. According to the National Highway Authority (NHA), it was 8th meeting of JWG on transport and infrastructure and it is expected that the Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) meeting of the CPEC, which is the
China is once again mass testing an entire city for the coronavirus amid a regional outbreak in Xinjiang province. Around 4.7m people in Kashgar are being tested, with 138 asymptomatic cases found so far. China has been largely successful in bringing infection rates down, but there continue to be small outbreaks. Xinjiang is home to
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CHITRAL: A five-day special national immunisation days (SNIDs) campaign for polio eradication was inaugurated in Upper and Lower Chitral districts on Saturday. Lower Chitral deputy commissioner Naveed Ahmed opened the campaign by administering oral polio vaccine to a number of children in the Women and Children Hospital. Later, he led an awareness walk which started
A suicide bomber struck near an education centre in the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing at least 18 people in the latest attack to rock the conflict-wracked country. Violence on the ground has spiked in recent weeks despite the Taliban and the Afghan government holding peace talks in Qatar to end the country\’s grinding war.
Chief Minister Mahmood Khan announced different projects, in including construction of Dir Expressway, upgradation of District Headquarters Hospital Upper Dir to Category-A hospital, upgradation of Partak police post to police station and provision of Rs350 million for the construction and rehabilitation of various link roads. He was addressing a public gathering at Patrak valley of
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CHITRAL: Speakers at a function held in connection with World Snow Leopard Day here emphasised conservation of the wild cat for its pivotal role in ecological balance and said support of women should be enlisted to achieve the goal. Held in the University of Chitral in collaboration with Snow Leopard Foundation (SLF), the function was
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AYUN: The new office building of Habib Bank in Ayun was opened at a function on Friday. Prominent literary personality Qazi Muhammad Nizam inaugurated the premises by cutting a ribbon. Area manager of the bank Rehmat Zafar told the gathering that the building is equipped with new banking facilities, including an automated teller nachine (ATM).
