CHITRAL: Salmonella Typhi bacteria was found in the sample of water obtained from the main water tank of Attani village where outbreak of extensive multi drug resistance (MDR) typhoid had been reported two weeks ago. Scores of patients admitted to district headquarters hospital have been tested positive for the ailment. Dr Salim Saifullah, public health […]
CHITRAL: The district administrations of Lower and Upper Chitral have imposed Section 144 under which restrictions have been imposed on different activities. According to separate orders issued from the offices of the deputy commissioners, in order to ensure maintenance of peace, there would be a ban on fireworks, firing into the air, display of arms,
DROSH: A large number of people blocked the Chitral-Peshawar road in Drosh for over four hours demanding registration of an FIR against police officials for beating and injuring a shopkeeper. Iqbal Shaheen, a resident of Jinjiret, who runs a shop in Drosh bazar, remained hospitalized with multiple injuries after being beaten up by three officials
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PESHAWAR: A deputy superintendent of police and his gunman were killed and another police official injured in a terror attack in Lakki Marwat on Saturday. Police said that the vehicle of DSP Gul Muhammad Khan was targeted near Manjola Chowk by armed persons. It may be recalled that in a similar incident, another DSP, Iqbal
Irshadullah Khan PESHAWAR: A group of new women and minority reserved seat members of KP assembly held a protest outside the Peshawar press club on Friday against the KP government\’s refusal to administer oath to them. The protesters chanted slogans against the government. Describing the denial of oath-taking as an abuse of government\’s power, they
RAWALPINDI: PTI leader and former federal minister Fawad Chaudhry was on Friday evening released from the Adiala jail in Rawalpindi. Two days ago, Islamabad High Court had granted bail to the PTI leader in a case registered against him. The Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) had booked the former information minister, his cousin and a frontman
DROSH: A young man has been hospitalized with multiple injuries after allegedly being beaten up by police officials in the police station of Drosh. Iqbal Shaheen, a resident of Jinjiret, told ChitralToday correspondent on phone from his hospital bed that runs a shop in Drosh and a few days ago had an altercation with a
LAHORE: Four children passed away and one is hospitalized after being poisoned by their mother in Toba Tek Singh, Rescue 1122 said on Friday. According to the emergency service, the woman and her husband had strained relations and this morning they had a scuffle over a petty issue. The angry woman gave poison to her
LONDON: A Pakistani man was convicted in a murder case 19 years after a female police officer was fatally shot while responding to a robbery in the United Kingdom. Sharon Beshenivsky was a 38-year-old mother of three who was shot dead outside a travel agency in Bradford while responding to an armed robbery call. Piran
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PESHAWAR: PML-N leader Amir Muqam has said that a governor\’s rule will be an option of the federal government in Khyber Pakthunkhwa. Speaking at a TV program, he said if KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur and the speaker of the assembly did not change their attitude, the federal government would be forced to impose
