Bashir Hussain Azad CHITRAL: The residents of the remote Broghil valley in Upper Chitral have demanded that the government should construct the old Silk Road that linked their area with other parts of the world. They regretted that the residents near the border of Afghanistan still lived in deplorable condition due to absence of a […]
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) on Tuesday constituted a constitutional bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan to be headed by Justice Aminuddin Khan. The decision was taken by the judicial council at a meeting chaired by the new Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Yahya Afridi. This was the first meeting of the judicial
M irshad ullah khan PESHAWAR: The Unity Democratic Alliance (UDA) has made history by sweeping all positions and executive council seats in the Khyber Union of Journalists elections. Kashifuddin Syed has been elected as president while Arshad Ali will serve as the general secretary KashifudDin Syed (UDA) 295 votes, Alamgir Khan (Progressive Journalists Group) 156
LFAFAR, SPAIN (Reuters): Spanish rescuers opened a temporary morgue in a convention centre and battled to reach areas still cut off on Friday as the death toll from catastrophic floods rose to 205 people in Europe\’s worst weather disaster in five decades. In Valencia, the eastern region that bore the brunt of the devastation, about
CHITRAL: A Chitral Levies official lost his life in a road traffic accident at Jutilasht near here on Friday. Two personnel of the Levies – Subedar Tika Khan and a sepoy – were injured in the accident. Havaldar Muhammad Nasim, who lost his life on the spot, belonged to Rumbur valley. His dead body was
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has signed an agreement with a private sector company to establish its own power transmission lines. A formal ceremony in this regard was held at the Chief Minister\’s House in Peshawar where officials from Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organization (PEDO) and the private company M/S Netracon Technologies signed the agreement in
PESHAWAR: In order to promote tourism, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has finalized \’Mezban\’, a home-stay project, that will be launched by December 15 this year. Initially, the project would be launched at a cost of Rs.395 million, providing interest-free loans of up to Rs.3 million to homeowners in tourist districts to offer quality accommodation facilities
CHITRAL: Patients and attendants at the District Headquarters Hospital have urged the government to extend the Sehat Sahulat Programme to all inpatients, as it is currently available only for those undergoing surgery. Amjad Haider, an attendant of a patient in the ENT ward, said that he had to purchase injections and other medicines from the
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PESHAWAR: Artists and folk singers have urged the provincial government to take concrete steps for revival of art and literary and cultural activities. They arranged an event in Nishtar Hall Peshawar and sought a multilayered plan for improving condition of deserving artists. They said that artists had established a body four years ago to raise
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ISLAMABAD: Unknown people riding four Vigos opened fire on three police vans in which 82 PTI workers and three MPAs were being shifted from Islamabad to Attock jail on Friday afternoon, police said. After the armed attack at the Sangjani toll plaza, the three MPAs Anwer Zeb, Liaquat and Yasir Qureshi and a number of
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