ISLAMABAD: A student went missing while on a hiking on Trail-V of Margalla Hills in Islamabad on Sunday. On Monday, the dead body of the student was recovered from a ravine in the hills. Islamabad police said the student had strayed and fell into the ravine. The Islamabad police had registered a kidnapping case against […]
KOT ADDU (PUNJAB): At least 11 people were killed and 10 others injured in a collision between a truck and a passenger van in Kot Addu city of Punjab, Rescue 1122 and police said. The accident occurred at Chowk Sarwar on Mianwali road when the truck collided head-on with the passenger van. As a result,
GILGIT: Princess Zahra Aga Khan concluded her three-day visit to Gilgit-Baltistan and reached Booni in Chitral Upper on Saturday. In Booni, she was welcomed by the district administration and leaders of the Ismaili community. Later, she left for Chitral Lower. At Chitral airport, MPA Fatehul Mulk Ali Nasir received her. She visited the Aga Khan
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ISLAMABAD, May 24 (APP): Prime Minister’s Coordinator on Climate Change Romina Khurshid Alam on Friday said Pakistan was leading the world in community-based conservation of Markhor and other wild goats and sheep. Addressing a press conference, flanked by Inspector General of Forest, Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination, Ghulam Qadir Shah on International Markhor
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Irshadullah Khan CHITRAL: Class IV employees in Chitral staged a protest outside the press club on Friday demanding an increase in their pay and allowances in accordance with the rising inflation. The protesters, carrying placards and banners, gathered to voice their concerns about the low pay and inadequate benefits. The employees said that their current
Irshadullah Khan PESHAWAR: The Provincial Alliance for Sustainable Tobacco Control has commended the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government for its decision to increase the tobacco cess. This significant move is set to generate additional revenue that will be allocated to the health sector, enhancing public health outcomes across the province. Finance Adviser Muzzammil Aslam confirmed that
Shah Karez Khan The erstwhile Chitral district was bifurcated to make a new district of Upper Chitral in July 2018 covering an area of 8,392 sq km. The population of Upper Chitral was 195,528 according to statistics of 2023. The financial resources were also divided on the basis of population thus Lower Chitral having larger
Irshadullah Khan CHITRAL: The negligence of the district administration and the TMA Lower Chitral has led to a surge in the population of stray dogs in the city areas. The shooting of stray dogs was banned a few years ago but so far there has been no strategy to keep the city clear of them.
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BOONI: The Chitral Upper police have registered a case against two men and arrested one of them on the charge of causing the death by suicide of a married woman in Gaht village of Mulkhow last week. The mother of three killed herself by jumping from a mountain near the village on Friday. The police
SINGAPORE (Reuters): More than 140 passengers and crew from a Singapore Airlines flight hit by heavy turbulence that left dozens injured and one dead finally reached Singapore on a relief flight Wednesday morning after an emergency landing in Bangkok. The scheduled London-Singapore flight on a Boeing (BA.N) 777-300ER plane diverted to Bangkok after the plane
