PESHAWAR: The name of MPA-elect from PK-1 Upper Chitral Suriya Bibi has been finalized for the post of deputy speaker of the Khyber Pakthunkhwa assembly. According to party sources, jailed PTI founder and former prime minister Imran Khan has approved Suriya Bibi as the deputy speaker of the assembly. Suriya Bibi is the only woman […]
Irshadullah Khan PESHAWAR: Superintendent of Police (SP) Ijaz Khan Sherpao was martyred in an encounter between police and alleged terrorists while three policemen, including a DSP, were injured early on Tuesday. The police also killed two of the terrorists. Mardan police confirmed the incident and said that the encounter took place in Katling area of
CHITRAL: Police in Drosh have arrested an Afghan national and his local facilitator for trying to get a computerized national identity card on production of fake domicile and birth certificates. The arrests were made on the complaint of officials of the National Database and Registration Authority’s Drosh office. As per FIR registered in the Drosh
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ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has issued the numerical strength of political parties in the National Assembly after allocation of reserved seats while the case of Sunni Ittehad Council (PTI) is still pending with the commission. According to the ECP, the PML-N won a total of 75 seats in the elections and later nine
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CHITRAL: Tehsil Council Chitral on Friday passed a resolution opposing a plan of the KP revenue department to levy agriculture tax in Chitral. The session of the council was chaired by its convener Fakhre Azam and attended by chairmen of all village councils and officials from government departments. Speaking on the government plan to impose
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GILGIT: Thousands of people are stranded after all landsliding blocked the Karakorum Highway in Kohistan, cutting off link between Gilgit-Baltistan and other parts of the country. Officials said that work at the blocked portion of the KKH had been started but it would take at least three days to clear the road and reopen it
CHITRAL: Hundreds of passengers were stranded after the Chitral-Dir road was blocked on Lowari due to heavy snowfall early on Monday. The Lower Chitral police said that about two feet of snowfall on both sides of the Lowari tunnel had blocked the road for all types of traffic. According to reports, a large number of
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Sarwar Kamal Amid political uncertainty when majority of political parities except the PML-N are protesting against theft of their mandate and possible manipulation of election results, the allegations made by the commissioner of Rawalpindi has come as a shocking and damaging dent to our democratic credentials and international prestige. This latest development has raised a
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PESHAWAR: At least three people, including a woman and a child, were killed when the roof of their house collapsed after a gas cylinder blast in Ejazabad locality of Gulbahar No 4 here on Friday morning. Officials of Rescue 1122 said after being informed its staff reached the spot and started rescue and relief activity
CHITRAL: The district administration of Lower Chitral utilized the services of Communication and Works (C&W) Department to remove garbage that piled up in Chitral bazar. The garbage were seen across the Bazar as staff of the Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) continued their weeks-long strike against non-payment of salaries for four months. Before general elections on
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