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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Gul Hamaad Farooqi CHITRAL: A civil society organization has pointed out substandard and poor quality work on the ongoing construction of the Chitral-Booni road and called upon higher authorities to take notice of the issue. Members of Chitral Development Movement (CDM) visited the under-construction road and found that its retaining walls were being constructed with
CHITRAL: A court has sentenced a man to lifetime imprisonment in a drug peddling case, the Lower Chitral police said on Thursday. It said the court also imposed a fine of Rs0.5 million under section 9D of the Control of Narcotics Substance Act. The convict, Muhammad Ejaz, son of Muhammad Ishaq, resident of Jughore, was
CHITRAL: A schoolteacher fell into a river along with his motorcycle while taking his younger brother to school in Sor Rech village of Upper Chitral on Thursday. Rescue 1122 said its staffers were searching for the dead body of Anwaruddin, but so far have failed to find it. However, the motorcycle of the deceased has
