CHITRAL: A youth from the Goldur locality of Chitral has been arrested by the FIA cyber crime wing on the charge of hacking a local Urdu online newspaper a few weeks ago. The youth, Umair Haider, recently graduated in software engineering from Bahria University Islamabad. A team from the FIA raided the house of the […]
ZAIT (UPPER CHITRAL) Amir Hussain of Zait has passed away. His funeral was attended by a large number of people from different walks of life.
BOONI: Women from a village in Kosht held a protest demonstration here against unavailability of water in their area. The protesters from the Gamboor locality of Kosht lower gathered outside the office of assistant commissioner Mastuj at Booni and staged a sit-in for the acceptance of their demand for several hours. They said for the
PESHAWAR: Irshad Ahmed Sodhar, a grade 18 officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS), was on Tuesday appointed as the deputy commissioner of Chitral. He will be replacing Shahab Hamid Yousafzai, who was made the deputy commissioner Chitral after the death of Osama Ahmad Waraich in a plane crash in Dec 2016. Mr Sodhar, who
ISLAMABAD: Presiding over a meeting at the Ministry of Water and Power in Islamabad, an adviser to the prime minister he said 108 MW Golen Gol hydropower project would bring a green revolution in the area, adding 400 acres of land would be irrigated from the project. He directed WAPDA to complete laying of 200-kilometer-long
$4.5m allocated for snow leopard protection programme Snow leapords live in the high mountains of the Karakoram and Hindukush. They are mainly found in Baltistan, Chitral, Gilgit, Upper Swat Valley, and the slopes of Nanga Parbat. Their status was recently revised from ‘endangered’ to ‘vulnerable’ after an assessment by international experts. The ‘vulnerable’ classification means
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CHITRAL: An urban forestry campaign was launched in the town in presence of officers of line departments, NGOs representatives and people from civil societies. Speaking on the occasion, the additional deputy commissioner said urban forestry is the only solution to the environmental pollution. “Tree plantation plays an important role in eliminating environmental pollution, therefore, people
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China has included the Rs20bn Gilgit-Chitral road in the CPEC project. An official close to the matter revealed that the decision was taken at the fifth meeting of the CPEC Joint Working Group of Transport Infrastructure held in Karachi on Saturday. The meeting was attended by Communication Minister Dr Hafiz Abdul Kareem, Communication Secretary Muhammad
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DROSH: A motorcyclist died after colliding with a car near Kesu village of Drosh. Inayatur Rehman, son of Gul Amir Afghan, was on his way to Kesu camp from Drosh when his bike collided with the car (APL-2016) coming from the opposite side. Rehman was taken to the THQ hospital Drosh where he succumbed to
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has agreed to the regularization of all contractual employees in KP. The chief minister directed to prepare a comprehensive design sketching out proper and uniform service structure for all government employees of all cadres serving in different departments that should be brought to the Cabinet and after clearing it from
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