CHITRAL: Hundreds of people remained stranded at different points on Chitral-Dir road again due to flooding in streams and nullahs following rain, especially at Kaldam Gol in Drosh on Friday. The road was also blocked at Minakhor near Lowari tunnel. At Kaldam Gol in Drosh, a car got stuck in the middle of the flooding […]
ISLAMABAD: MNA Ghazala Anjum called on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad on Friday and briefed him about damages to public and private property and infrastructure caused by recent rain and snowfall in Chitral. She told the prime minister that the storms had damaged hundreds of houses and blocked roads rendering many people homeless and
CHITRAL: The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) handed over a truckload of tents to the district administration Lower Chitral for people displaced by the recent rain and snowfall. The 30 tents were handed over to Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Imran Khan by AKAH regional program manager Muhammad Wali Khan at a ceremony held at the
KARACHI: A vehicle carrying five foreigners was targetted by two suicide attackers in Landhi area of Karachi on Friday morning. Police said two persons riding motorcycles were involved in the attack and one of them died when he detonated an explosive while the other was shot dead by security guards of the foreigners. The hiace
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BOONI: An eight-year-old boy died after a wall collapsed on him while going to school on Thursday. Shahan Ali, a grade 2 student of a private school, was son of Sardar Ali Khan, the principal of Govt High School Khot, Upper Chitral. The boy left home at 7am and was going to school when a
PESHAWAR: Five officials of the Directorate of Intelligence and Investigation Customs (Peshawar) embraced martyrdom while performing an intelligence-based operation at Daraban Road near village Sagguu district Dera Ismail Khan on Thursday. “During the operation, the officials were ambushed by unknown assailants in a dastardly attack and fired upon with automatic weapons. As the will of
Dr. Nasir Uddin Khaniye DROSH: Shishi, Azurduom, Hafeezabad, Jazir Dori and Urdghani Bolan villages in Drosh tehsil of Lower Chitral have been severely affected by a dangerous landslide. Twelve houses were greatly impacted, and one mosque was destroyed last evening. After the landslide, a half-kilometer-long fissure appeared in the adjoining mountains, posing a threat to
PESHAWAR: The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) has issued a flood alert due to melting of glaciers in several districts of the province. A statement issued by the office of Director General PDMA said flood situation can get worsen in nine districts of Chitral Upper, Chitral Lower, Swat, Dir Upper, Dir Lower, Kohistan Upper, Kohistan
PESHAWAR: The process of providing financial assistance to families of those who have lost their lives in different incidents during the recent rains and snowfall has been geared up, said a handout of the KP government. On the directives of Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, Rs50 million have been released so far by PDMA for
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CHITRAL: Former minister and PPP leader Salim Khan has said work to reopen blocked roads is dead slow and in many affected areas neither any official or public representative has visited nor work started to reopen the roads. Hundreds of houses have been damaged in Lotkoh tehsil alone in the rain and snow while residents
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