BOONI: Officials from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) are visiting Upper Chitral to assess damages caused by recent floods and to help in rehabilitation activities. According to a statement, during a meeting with Deputy Commissioner Khalid Zaman at his office in Booni, the UNOCHA representatives were briefed about the […]
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Gul Hamaad Farooqi CHITRAL: Al the 135 sanitation workers of Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) Chitral have been on a strike for the last 10 days due to non-payment of their salaries for the last six months. Due to the strike of the sanitation workers, the town, especially Women and Children Hospital, District Headquarters Hospital, Shahi
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BOONI: Police in Upper Chitral have arrested six activists of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on the charge of violating a ban on holding \’public gathering\’. The arrested activists included PTI Upper Chitral vice president and former UC nazim Zulfi Hunar Shah and tehsil Mastuj vice president Izatmand Shah. The PTI activists were taken into custody by
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CHITRAL: A man went missing after leaving his house in Kuju village of Lower Chitral on Friday. Rescue 1122 said that a search was launched along the river after a cap of the missing man identified as Muhammad Ali, about 57 years of age, was found on the bank of the river in Kuju. However,
CHITRAL: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is expected to visit Chitral within two or three days, a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader said. “Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will reach Lower Chitral on August 9 and distribute laptops among the students of the University of Chitral,” PML-N senior leader Abdul Wali Khan Advocate told reporters. Quoting party
