YARKHUN: People living in scores of villages and hooked to the Grovur Gol powerhouse have called upon the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) to help them replace the main supply lines. In the narrow valley of Grovur where the powerhouse is located, the wires are frequently hit by falling stones from the mountains and […]
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CHITRAL: Police have registered a case against the owner and management of Terichmir Hotel in Chitral town in connection with the Aug 13 incident in which five tourists lost their lives. As many as 16 other tourists from Punjab, all relatives, were also injured when the protection wall of the balcony of a room on third
CHITRAL: A young man stabbed his elder brother to death in Mroi village of Lower Chitral on Monday. According to local people, the incident occurred in the Benai locality of Mroi. The deceased has been identified as Sher Muhammad. He was attacked by his younger brother with a knife over a petty domestic issue. Haji
The unrest among AKHSP staff in Chitral almost came to an end after one year period. Staff are now satisfied with new management structure in the region. Most of the staff who were ignored for long time were highly demotivated. Now their services have been recognized and valued. AKHSP has been working in chitral since
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KARACHI: A Chitrali student died of cardiac arrest in Karachi. His body was sent to his native area for burial. The student was taken to hospital after chest pain where he was pronounced dead.
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KARACHI: Raheel Hussain, a Karachi-based lawyer, has been appointed as a civil judge after he passed the exam and interview recently. Mr Raheel is a native of village Dizg in upper Chitral. He did his LLB from the Sindh Muslim (SM) Law College Karachi and has been practicing as a lawyer with Ali Law Associates
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CHITRAL: In a bid to adopt a newborn baby boy from Chitral, a couple from Sialkot got itself entangled in a legal issue as the relatives of the baby did not allow it to take him away. According to sources, a man from Sialkot, who is settled in Abu Dhabi, befriended a resident of Chitral
CHITRAL: Muhammad Hamza Wali, son of Abdul Wali Khan of Shotkhar Torkhow, has been recommended by the Inter Services Selection Board (ISSB) Kohat as GD pilot in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF). He is currently a 12th grade student at the PAF College in Lower Topa Murree and will join he PAF Academy Risalpur next
Abdul Nasir Khan YARKHUN: As the countdown for the visit of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan to Chitral has already begun, besides other preparations his followers have started repairing the jeep track from Yarkhun to Booni on a self-help basis. Sher Wali Khan Aseer, a prominent retired educationist, writer and author, told ChitralToday that volunteers were
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A suspected meteor lit up the skies above Pakistan’s mountainous north late Wednesday, officials said, with panicked residents reporting a mysterious light whizzing past and the sound of multiple, powerful blasts. The incident occurred around 9pm, when citizens in the city of Gilgit and the surrounding Ghizer and Diamer districts saw the bright object racing
