CHITRAL: The wheat stock in warehouses of the food department in Lower Chital has drastically depleted causing fears of acute shortage of the staple grain. An official of the food department said the main warehouse of the department had a stock of just 2,000 bags (each 100kg) and about 1,000 bags in different godowns across […]
GWADAR: Heavy rain lashed most parts of Balochistan on Tuesday leaving many cities and villages submerged in water. Gwadar was worst hit as rainwater flooded residential areas forcing residents to flee. Life has come to a standstill after 16 hours of downpours. Newly-elected MNA Hidayatur Rehman of Haq Do Tehreek on social media said that
RAWALPINDI: An accountability court here on Tuesday indicted former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the 190 million pound Al-Qadir Trust corruption case. Accountability court judge Nasir Javed held the hearing of the case inside the Adiala jail where Imran is being kept in another case while his under-custody wife Bushra
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PESHAWAR: The name of MPA-elect from PK-1 Upper Chitral Suriya Bibi has been finalized for the post of deputy speaker of the Khyber Pakthunkhwa assembly. According to party sources, jailed PTI founder and former prime minister Imran Khan has approved Suriya Bibi as the deputy speaker of the assembly. Suriya Bibi is the only woman
Irshadullah Khan PESHAWAR: Superintendent of Police (SP) Ijaz Khan Sherpao was martyred in an encounter between police and alleged terrorists while three policemen, including a DSP, were injured early on Tuesday. The police also killed two of the terrorists. Mardan police confirmed the incident and said that the encounter took place in Katling area of
CHITRAL: Police in Drosh have arrested an Afghan national and his local facilitator for trying to get a computerized national identity card on production of fake domicile and birth certificates. The arrests were made on the complaint of officials of the National Database and Registration Authority’s Drosh office. As per FIR registered in the Drosh
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ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has issued the numerical strength of political parties in the National Assembly after allocation of reserved seats while the case of Sunni Ittehad Council (PTI) is still pending with the commission. According to the ECP, the PML-N won a total of 75 seats in the elections and later nine
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Aqib Ullah This political kerfuffle and throwing mud at each other to prove who is better and whose party is more loyal to the country should be ended now. Instead of taking to the streets to protest and casting aspersions on each other, it\’s high time to sit together and work for the betterment of
GILGIT: Thousands of people are stranded after all landsliding blocked the Karakorum Highway in Kohistan, cutting off link between Gilgit-Baltistan and other parts of the country. Officials said that work at the blocked portion of the KKH had been started but it would take at least three days to clear the road and reopen it
Prof. Rahmat Karim Baig This chain of mountains is considered to be about 800km long that touches the southern tip of Pamir in the east and the eastern province of Iran in the west with its highest section lying within the borders of Chitral and also touching Wakhan corridor. There are no easy passes between
