(File picture). CHITRAL: The workers of the Tehsil Municipal Administration Chitral have been protesting for the last two days for the release of their salaries pending for the last five months. On Tuesday, the protest entered its second day. The protesters have set up a protest camp at the office of the municipal administration. The […]
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CHITRAL: As many as 13 schoolchildren were injured when their school vehicle met with an accident at Denin Gahtek village of Lower Chitral on Wednesday morning. Rescue 1122 said the private Suzuki pickup carrying the students to their school [Frontier Corps Public School] met with the accident near Afaq Model School and fell off the
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BOONI: A bridge connecting Zupu, Wasum and other villages on right bank of River Yarkhun with other parts of Yarkhun was washed away by recent floods. The district administration of Upper Chitral installed a chairlift over the river to the residents.
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Just a few days before his 128th birthday, Jose Paulino Gomes, who was believed to be the oldest man in the world, passed away in his home in Corrego do Cafe, Brazil, at the extraordinary age of 127, leaving behind a legacy that stretched more than a century. Jose, according to his 1917 marriage certificate,
Gul Hamaad Farooqi CHITRAL: The devastating floods of July 22 have changed the map of Chitral. The intensity of the torrents was so high that the water flowed five feet above the river level which resulted in the loss of surrounding houses, shops, markets, workshops, standing crops, under cultivation land, orchards and fields. Due to
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BOONI: A Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) activist from Kuragh died in a road traffic accident at Charun, Upper Chitral, late on Sunday. According to locals, Hassan Ali, former president of PTI youth wing Mastuj, was traveling in a Mazda when it fell into the river after hitting a bike head-on. Four persons were onboard the Datsun
Adil Ahmad Climate change is a global problem and the world is cognizant of the dreadful impact of climate change. Many conferences have been held internationally to deal with climate change. Pakistan is one of those countries which are under the inexorable destruction of climate change. The previous year\’s devastation of the deluge was not
HERAT: Authorities from Afghanistan’s vice ministry created a bonfire of confiscated musical instruments and equipment in Herat province at the weekend, deeming music immoral. “Promoting music causes moral corruption and playing it will cause the youth to go astray,” said Aziz al-Rahman al-Muhajir, head of the Herat department of the Ministry for the Promotion of
CHITRAL: The main Chitral-Dir road was on Sunday blocked for several hours after flash flooding triggered by torrential rains near Drosh. The office of the deputy commissioner Lower Chitral advised travellers to wait for the reopening of the road, saying staff and machinery under supervision of senior officials were at the site. The flash flooding
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CHITRAL: The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) candidates won both the National Assembly and Provincial Assembly seats of Chitral with a big margin in the July 25, 2018, general elections. According to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitral won the NA-1 and Maulana Hidayatur Rehman the PA-1 seat. The candidates of PTI for
