PESHAWAR: The KP government on Tuesday announced to appoint the first district police officer (DPO) of the Upper Chitral district. According to a notification, Zulfiqar Ahmed Tanoli of the Police Service Pakistan (PSP) will be the DPO of Upper Chitral. Currently, he is working as the director of Police Training School, Swat. So far, most […]
CHITRAL: Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Khan Yousufzai sentenced to death two persons in a double murder case that occurred in Damil Arandu in 2016. The prosecution proved that the two brothers — Saidur Rahman and Noor Rahmat — of Damil murdered their villagers Shafiqur Rahman and Shah Faisal. The court ordered that the
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CHITRAL: The beneficiaries of Benazir Income Support Programme have demanded of the authorities concerned to set up payment centres for them at union council level in Chitral. They alleged that BISP failed to make the contractor, a private bank, to abide by the terms of the contract to disburse the quarterly stipend to them by
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DROSH: An engineer from Drosh, who was working in Afghanistan, embraced martyrdom in Qandahar on Thursday. His friends in Drosh told ChitralToday that Engineer Nadeem Hussain was associated with Netracon construction company based in Qandahar. On Thursday while returning from his work site, his car hit a landmine along the roadside due to which he
CHITRAL: One person died and two others were hospitalized due to suffocation in a room where they slept after burning coal for heating. Locals said three ticketing clerks had slept in a room at Attaliq bus stand on Monday night after burning coal for heating in the room. When they did not come out the
CHITRAL: Hundreds of candidates missed the test and interview for different jobs in Rescue 1122 scheduled for Tuesday in Peshawar due to the closure of the Lowari Pass road on account of snowfall. The candidates have demanded the government announce a fresh date for test and interviews in Chitral to save them from travelling to
CHITRAL: Police in Chitral claimed to have arrested scores of suspected drug pushers in different villages of Chitral during a campaign. An official said during the last four days, a large quantity of charas was recovered in the pointed operation in the villages of Kari, Orghoch, Drosh, Parabeg, Chew Dok and Jughoor and the drug
AYUN: Owners of two houses damaged by a fire on Friday were provided relief items by the district administration of Chitral. The fire in the houses of Intikhab Alam and his brother Mudassir Shah in Darkhanan Deh was caused by an electric short circuiting. Due to unavailability of a fire brigade service in the area,
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CHITRAL: A case was registered against three people in Chitral for interfering a United States (US) citizen hunting a markhor near the town. The district forest officer (DFO) said an American hunter visited Toshi-II game reserve to hunt markhor. He had obtained a permit for trophy hunting, paying a fee of $150,000. The DFO said
AYUN: A fire destroyed two houses in the Darkhanan Deh locality of Ayun on Friday evening, local people told ChitralToday. The fire erupted in a room due to electric short circuiting and engulfed the houses of Mudassir Shah of Chitral Scouts and his brother Intikhab Alam of Chitral police. Local people could not save household
