PESHAWAR: The caretaker KP government has transferred the district police officer (DPO) of Lower Chitral and appointed a new DPO within about three months. According to a notification issued from the office of the inspector general of police, DPO Lower Chitral Ikram Ullah, a grade 18 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP), has […]
Dr Shahbaz Khan A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to enjoy the hospitality of a dear friend in Chitral. Until its division into two parts in 2018, it used to be the largest district in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), covering an area of 14,850sqkms. With a population of around 0.51 million, Chitral is mainly connected
CHITRAL: Civil society and social activists on Saturday strongly condemned alleged attack by workers of a contractor of the Chitral-Mastuj road project on journalist Gul Hamaad Farooqui. Speaking at a press conference here along with the journalist, they said people of Chitral have been complaining against Umar Jan and Co. for highly poor quality work
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CHITRAL (APP): A non-governmental organization, Helping Hand, on Thursday arranged a seminar, “Youth for a cooler planet” at a hotel in Chitral. Hamid Ahmad Mir, an environment expert, spoke about how smoking, pollution and carbonyl gases were changing the planet and how climate change was affecting it. According to experts, abrupt floods brought on by
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CHITRAL: Police have registered a first information report (FIR) against three laborers working on the under-construction Chitral-Booni road on the charge of physically assaulting and threatening senior journalist Gul Hamaad Farooqui. However, no further action has been initiated against the nominated persons. According to the FIR, Faqooqui was returning home at Shahmiran Deh in Chitral
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