YARKHUN: The flooding river Yarkhun has swept away a bridge between Sholkoch and Wasum river, locals told ChitralToday. The bridge connected different villages on both sides of the river such as Sholkoch and Wasum. The pedestrian bridge had been in poor shape for years abd despite repeated appeal by the locals the government failed to […]
MASTUJ: Flooding in Pasum Gol between Chinar and Chuinj villages on Tuesday night blocked the main road to Yarkhun. The flood also blocked the Yarkhun river for some time, prompting the district administration to issue an alert to people living along the river to evacuate Rescue 1122 on Wednesday said its staff managed to build
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GILGIT: A French paraglider who went missing in Hunza district on Saturday could not be found so far. Xavier Alain, 58, along with two Spanish paragliders, took off from an upper area in the district. The Spanish paragliders landed in Ganish area of Hunza after some time but the French paraglider was missing. A search
MASTUJ: Tourists and spectators coming from the annual Shandur festival were stranded at Shaidas and Harchin in Laspur valley due to flooding in the local streams on July 3, 2022. One woman from Harchin is feared drowned in the Harchin Gol flood; a vehicle swept away by gushing waters in the stream. The stranded travelers
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BOONI: Five people, including women, were injured in a road traffic accident near Istaro bridge of Upper Chitral, local people said on Saturday. The vehicle – a double door Datsun (PS-1260) – was going to Terich from Lower Chitral when it could not ascend the road a few metres before the bridge and fell back
CHITRAL: A woman belonging to the Kushum village of Chitral ended her life by jumping into the river due to unknown reasons. Rescue 1122 said that the woman, in her 20s, daughter of Abdur Rahim, committed suicide on the night of June 30. The emergency service said after receiving information, its staff were searching for
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) issued a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) advisory for five districts after a similar flood was reported from the remote Arkari area of Lower Chitral. The advisory — issued for the districts of Upper and Lower Chitral, Swat, Upper Dir and Upper Kohistan — warned of
We are deeply saddened over the passing of Ehsanul Haq Jan of Booni, Upper Chitral, in United States of America (USA). He was 52. Ehsanul Haq Jan was associated with the UNICEF and had been living in the USA along with his family for the last many years. Earlier, he worked with the AKDN in
PESHAWAR: A student from Chitral was found strangled to death in a room of a private hostel of Islamia College University Peshawar. The victim was identified as Shahid Ahmed, a mathematics student from Chitral. The dead body was shifted to his native area by the police after postmortem. Police said they have registered a case
CHITRAL: Deuser village is located in the remote valley of upper Yarkhun in the district of Upper Chitral. The small village lacks basic facilities and the residents are faced with great hardships due to negligence on the part of the government. The residents of Deuser village complained that they were faced with a host of
