PESHAWAR, Feb 27: The Khyber Pakhtunhkwa government on Friday assured the provincial assembly that it would take up the issue of the opening of the Lowari tunnel with the federal government and the National Highway Authority (NHA). KP senior minister for local government and rural development Inayatullah Khan while responding to a point order in […]
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CHITRAL, Feb 22: Representatives of various linguistic groups of Chitral gathered at Chitral Press Club to celebrate the International Mother’s Language Day on February 21. The programme was organized by literary organization, Anjuman Taraqi Khowar Chitral. Those who spoke on the occasion were Dr. Inayatullah Faizi, Gul Murad Khan Hasrat, Maula Nigah, Prof. Mumtaz Hussain, Hayatullah (Dameli), Gul
BOONI, Feb 20: The people of Mulkhow have at last called off their symbolic strike after 72 days as one of their demands was met and they were assured that the other demands would also be fulfilled soon. The people had launched the strike against unavailability of basic facilities at the rural health centre (RHC)
BOONI, Feb 17: A spokesman for the upper Chitral MPA, Sardar Hussain, here issued s statement saying that within a very short period of time the lawmaker did lots of work for the people of his constituency. Iqbal Uddin, the spokesman for the MPA, listed the following projects in the credit of the MPA. Approval
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BOONI, Jan 29: A delegation of Tehreek Huqooq-e-Awam, upper Chitral, visited the hunger strike camp set up at Warijun by the people of Mulkhow against unavailability of basic facilities at the rural health centre (RHC) there. The people of Mulkhow have been holding a symbolic hunger strike for the last over a month. The delegation
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CHITRAL, Jan 17: Hundreds of people from the Karimabad and Sosum villages of Garam Chashma repaired the main road to their area on a self-help basis after their demands to the government departments fell on deaf ears. A few days ago, the people had also repaired the Hasanabad bridge on a self-help basis. An aged
CHITRAL, Jan 13: The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) under its ELLY project of youth empowerment conducted 15-day training on wood curving for the youth of Drosh area. According to a statement, the trainees were identified by the local support organization, DADP, from the union councils of Shishikoh, Ashrait and Drosh-I. The Drosh Institute
CHITRAL, Jan 11: A protest public meeting was held at the polo ground of the Sosum village (Karimabad) under the chairmanship of Syed Jamat Shah. Addressing the gathering, the speakers said since the creation of Pakistan no developmental project had been launched in this scenic valley inhabited by more than 14,000 people. They said there
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ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: The war of words between member provincial assembly (MPA) from lower Chitral Salim Khan and former MPA Ghulam Muhammad has intensified with the two archrivals taking a dig at each after the former jumped into the bandwagon of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) last week. The barrage of massive corruption allegations started surfacing after
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ISLAMABAD, Jan 8: The incumbent member provincial assembly from lower Chitral and former minister for population welfare Salim Khan of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Thursday stuck to his guns, saying Ghulam Muhammad must proceed with his legal notice if he is ‘man enough’. Talking to ChitralToday on phone from Peshawar in response to allegations leveled against him by former MPA
