PESHAWAR: Khalid bin Wali, 34, son of Abdul Wali Khan Abid Advocate of Barenis Chitral died in a road traffic accident on motorway near Nowshera on Saturday. He was travelling in an official car (AA-2387 Peshawar) to Rawalpindi from Peshawar when the vehicle met with the accident near near Kalanjar Kallay and caught fire. Khalid […]
In a special ceremony at the Vancouver Convention Centre, the region’s largest universities came together for an historic moment. Both the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University bestowed their highest honours on His Highness the Aga Khan, awarding him with honorary doctorate of laws degrees in one joint ceremony. “It is truly a
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PESHAWAR: Abdul Hameed Pasha from Zait village in Upper Chitral has been appointed as the accountant general of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He will take charge of his office in Peshawar on Oct 23, according to a notification issued by the auditor general of Pakistan (AGP), Islamabad. Mr Pasha is currently posted as the deputy auditor general
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CHITRAL: Muttahida Jihad Council chief Syed Salahuddin during his visit to Chitral addressed a gathering at the Al-Markaz Islami and spoke on the concept of Jihad. He said Pakistan was the target of the nexus of Israel, India and America because our country was created in the name of Islam and possessed nuclear weapons. He
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CHITRAL: Russian mountaineer Renat Shfikov, who had attempted to scale Terich Mir, the highest peak of Hindu Kush system of mountains in 2016, came to Chitral on Thursday on his sixth visit since 2006. He told local reporters that Chitral was one of his ideal tourist resorts in the world, where he always found all
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CHITRAL: Known for its scenic beauty, the mountainous regions of northern Pakistan are a popular tourist attraction. Apart from picturesque landscapes that meet the eye, what often goes unnoticed is that these valleys are extremely vulnerable to climate change and are categorized as one of the most disaster prone areas in the world. Over the
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Wednesday said he will not allow anyone to encroach land of the Kalash community. Hearing a case in Supreme Court, CJP said Kalash is one of the beautiful valleys of Pakistan and its residents are also Pakistani citizens. He said that the problems people of Kalash
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CHITRAL: The Rs32.08 million deficit budget of Chitral`s tehsil municipal administration was approved here on Thursday. Tehsil nazim Maulana Mohammad Ilyas told the house that like previous year, the provincial government had curtailed 50 percent of the development budget causing financial problems for Chitral TMA to improve its services. He said against the Rs132.076 million
AYUN: Schoolchildren and teachers from Govt Higher Secondary School Ayun and people from civil society participated in a cleanliness drive held under the Prime Minister\’s Clean and Green Pakistan programme. The campaign was arranged by Ayun and Valleys Development Programme. The participants picked garbage from roadsides and cleaned different areas of Ayun and vowed to
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CHITRAL: Peasant councillor Rahmat Ilahi has demanded ban on premature harvest of chalghuza as detaching of cones from branches of trees destroyed the buds. Talking to mediapersons here on Monday, he said the standard process of harvesting the chalghuza pine nuts was to wait for its ripening within the cones, after which it burst into
