CHITRAL: The chairmen of different village councils have castigated the government for denying them powers, development funds, salaries and other perks and privileges. Addressing a press conference here, Sajjad Ahmed Khan, Shahid Ahmed, Mir Dulla Jan, Manzoor Ahmed, Muneer Ahmed Charwelu, Sania Aziz, Anabia Bibi and others regretted the government had promised a hefty salary […]
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Gul Hamad Farooqui BOONI: Young Star Development Organization (YSDO) in collaboration with Center for Peace and Development Initiative (CPDE) and Citizen Network for Budget Accountability (CNBA) held an awareness creating workshop in Booni, the district headquarters of Upper Chitral. The theme of the seminar was \”Stakeholders dialogue on transparent budgeting.\” Former nazim Union Council Reshun
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PESHAWAR: The recently-constituted Task Force on Technical Education and Skill Development met here on Monday to thrash out a line of action to implement the strategy of the provincial government to export 0.5 million trained human resource to various countries. The meeting with Caretaker Chief Minister Syed Arshad Hussain Shah in the chair decided to
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CHITRAL: An American hunted a nine-and-half-year-old Kashmir Markhor in Toshi Shasha conservancy of Lower Chitral on Saturday. He had got a permit for trophy hunting from wildlife department at a cost of 212,000 dollars. Divisional forest officer, wildlife division Chitral, Farooq Nabi told Dawn that unlike the previous trophy hunters, the American national, Deron James
LAHORE: In a first experiment of its kind, caretaker Punjab government on Saturday used artificial rain in a bid to combat hazardous levels of smog in Lahore. Planes equipped with cloud seeding equipment were flown over 10 areas of the city, often ranked one of the worst places globally for air pollution. Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister
BOONI: An injured woman was on Saturday shifted to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Booni by Rescue 1122 Upper Chitral. The emergency service said that the woman had fallen into a ravine in Parwak village. After being alerted, the Rescue 1122 staff reached the spot and shifted her to hospital. It said the woman was suffering
PESHAWAR: Caretaker Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Syed Arshad Hussain Shah said the KP police had played an unprecedented role in the war against terrorism in the province. He was addressing a group of under-training assistant superintendents of police (ASPs) at Chief Minister’s House on Thursday. \”Being the most sensitive region in terms of law and
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CHITRAL: The Lower Chitral police have arrested the man who killed two persons in Kaldam Gol, Drosh, in August 2023 and had escaped arrest. The victims belonged to Shahnigar area of Drosh and had been identified as Ashraf Nabi, son of Gul Nayab, and Ihsanuddin, son of Nehrabuddin. According to the FIR, Waheedullah, son of
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ISLAMABAD: Telenor Group today announced the sale of its Pakistan telco operations to Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd (PTCL). The sale is part of Telenor’s strategy to build scale and market-leading players in Asia, as presented at the 2022 Capital Markets Day. It concludes the strategic review of the telco operations in Pakistan, which was announced
SN Peerzada BOONI: On 87the birth anniversary of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan on December 13, a walk to create awareness of drug eradication and addiction was held in Booni. The Aga Khan Social Welfare Board for Booni arranged the walk in collaboration with the district administration Upper Chitral, police department, religious leaders, social
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