PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court has turned down the petition of a Chinese private company to allow the excavation of sand and gravel from the bed of the Kunhar River for the construction activities of the Suki Kinari hydropower project in Manshera district. A bench consisting of Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Ijaz Anwar […]
CHITRAL: The district administration of Lower Chitral sealed four crush plants set up along the Chitral river at Chitral Shotar on Monday. A team from the district administration and mines and mineral department after sealing the plants also got FIRs registered against owners of the plants, the Lower Chitral DC office said in a statement.
DROSH: Renowned religious and political figure Qari Jamal Abdul Nasir has said tehsil Drosh has been neglected in the allocation of beautification funds and a very meager amount has been set aside for it. In a press statement, Qari Jamal said the provincial government had approved Rs280 million for the beautification of Chitral but surprisingly
Dur Wali Khan Though Chitral has been the land of Jiyalas since 1974 when the then elected prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Shaheed visited Chitral for he first time in the history of the valley and abolished Usher on the poor people. Pir Syed Kausar Ali Shah was born in the well-known Saadat family of
Muhkam Uddin Ayuni CHITRAL: A trade leader on Saturday demanded immediate transfer of the deputy commissioner of Lower Chitral for the district administration\’s failure to cooperate in the recent election of the traders\’ union. Speaking at a function held to administer oath to the newly-elected office-bearers of the union, its interim president Habib Hussain Mughal
