BOONI: Volunteers from the Ismaili community have started repairing roads in Booni after the government failed to maintain them even after decades. In the recent past, especially when Prince Karim Aga Khan visited Booni on Dec 9, 2017, volunteers from the Ismaili community also repaired the broken roads in Yarkhun, Mastuj and Booni. Visit of […]
CHITRAL: A married woman died after a room built for cattle adjacent to her house collapsed in Naghar village of Drosh tehsil, according to her in-laws. Police identified the woman as Hasnat Bibi, wife of Subhan Uddin. But the police and the married woman\’s relatives from Kesu village suspected foul play in her death as
DROSH: A large number of people working with the National Highway Authority (NHA) on Friday blocked the Chitral-Peshawar road for hours for not clearing their liabilities. Traffic on the main road remained blocked causing hardship for the travelers. The protesters were chanting slogans in support of their demands. Later, Assistant Commissioner Lower Chitral Abdul Wali
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CHITRAL: A court here on Thursday sentenced a man to seven years in prison in a child molestation case. Sanaullah was arrested on the charges of abusing a minor boy and making its video. Hearing the arguments of the counsel for both the parties, District and Sessions Judge Javedur Rehman sentenciled him to seven years
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has summoned Registrar Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University (SBBU) in a case regarding regularization of university employees at its Chitral campus now merged with another campus to establish University of Chitral. A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial, heard a petition filed by the employees. During
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PESHAWAR: As many as 817 employees of different cadre have been transferred from their current places of posting across the province under the government’s anti-corruption policy. An official order issued here said the transferred employees included officers from the rank of tehsildar to junior clerk. Of these, 129 officials were transferred in Peshawar,
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BOONI: Deputy Commissioner Upper Chitral Mr. Shah Saud inagurated a project \”Solar lift irrigation channel of Nogram\” at Mulkhow on 28/11/2019. An open forum (khuli katchehry) was also held at Samagile in Tehsil Mulkhow under the chairmanship of the DC and participated by heads of all line departments of Upper Chitral. A large number of
CHITRAL: The newly-elected office-bearers of the paramedical associations of Chitral and the DHQ hospital took oath at a function held at a hotel here. The function was attended by doctors, nurses and paramedical association members and others while Advocate Abdul Wali Khan was the chief guest. Speaking on the occasion, the office-bearers said their main
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The Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) has detected massive irregularities of Rs7.441bn in accounts of public sector enterprises (PSEs) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. These included 42 cases of the provision of funds, wasteful expenditure on a rest house, and delay in claim insurance, 13 cases of less/non-recovery, irregular retention of development funds, irregular award of contract,
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PESHAWAR: Pickpockets in Peshawar deprived Chitral-based senior media person Gul Hamaad Farooqui of cash and a mobile phone. He was travelling in a public transport vehicle from Saddar to Khyber Bazaar when the incident occurred. Farooqui complained to the police station east in Peshawar that the pickpockets took away Rs20,000 and a costly mobile phone
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