ISLAMABAD: Retired ambassador Muhammad Aslam Khan from Chitral passed away at a hospital in Kuwait, according to family sources. He was 69. Ambassador Aslam Khan belonged to Shogram village of Upper Chitral and was an officer of the Foreign Service of Pakistan. In September 2014, he was appointed as Pakistan\’s ambassador to Kuwait. Ambassador Khan […]
DROSH: PTI also occupied temporarily the vacant seat of Tehsil Council chairman of Drosh on Wednesday. The seat was vacated by Shahzada Khalid Pervez after he quitted the PPP and joined the PTI-Parliamentarians of Pervez Khattak for contesting the Feb 8th general elections. Mr Pervez lost the election for PK-2 to PTI\’s Fatehul Mulk Ali
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has constituted a seven-member committee to suggest austerity measures in the government departments. The seven-member committee headed by deputy chairman Planning Division has been directed to submit its report in a week. The committee will suggest reforms in government departments such as cutting pension and PSDP expenditures.
CHITRAL: Light snowfall has started in Lowari area with the Chitral-Peshawar road open for traffic. The weather was cloudy since Wednesday morning and light snowfall started at about 11am, according to the office of the deputy commissioner Lower Chitral. All roads across Chitral are also open, it said. On the direction of Deputy Commissioner Muhammad
CHITRAL: A young boy who was working as driver of an excavator passed away after an accident while going to clear the road to Arkari in Lower Chitral. Amir Shah, son of Ghulam Shah, from Siah Arkari, was the only son of his parents and worked as the excavator driver to support his family. He
Gul Hamad Farooqi CHITRAL: The recent heavy snowfall broke all previous known records of inclement weather in Chitral. In Kalash valleys, Bumburate, Sheikhandeh and other villages are still buried under up to five feet of snow. Roads were closed for all types of traffic, supply of electricity from a private power house remained suspended and
MULTAN: A residential building collapsed in the old city area of Multan in Punjab at about 4am on Tuesday, killing at least nine and injuring two other people. The dead included five siblings and their parents. The incident occured at Sehri time after a gas leakage blast that resulted in the collapse of the building.
BOONI: The district administration of Upper Chitral on Monday ordered an inquiry against the contractor of the Kosht RCC bridge for poor quality construction. The inquiry was ordered against the contractor and other stakeholders by Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Irfan during a visit to the bridge after receiving public complaints about its substandard construction. Tehsil Chairman
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CHITRAL: The road between Lower and Upper Chitral was blocked after a truck broke down in the middle of the narrow road at Karbiteli on Monday. As a result, commuters remained stuck on both sides for hours. Most of the travellers, including women, were seen walking towards their destinations in nearby areas after no help
ISLAMABAD: An 18-member federal cabinet of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif took oath in Islamabad on Monday. President Asif Ali Zardari administered the oath to the 18 ministers and one minister of state at the Awane Sadr. The ministers are: Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Ahsan Iqbal Chaudry, Rana Tanveer Hussain, Azam Nazeer Tarar, Senator Chaudhry Salik Hussain,
