Zulfiqar Ahmad ISLAMABAD: In all ominously abuzz likelihood, the freezing weather of Upper Chitral is all roasted up with the mercurial political temperature ahead of February 8, 2024 electoral frenzy with Advocate Siraj Ali Khan jumping into the fray as the hot favourit probable for the coveted ticket of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) which enjoys […]
GH Farooqui DROSH: Officials of National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) in Drosh handed over an Afghan national after he arrived there to get a Pakistani national identity card. Rehmanullah had crossed into Pakistan at Torkham border two days ago. He told police that he had committed to pay Rs1.7 million to facilitators to get
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CHITRAL: Autik, the final ritual of the Chitirmas winter festival of Kalash community, started on Monday evening with people having confined themselves to their homes till the concluding day on Dec 22. Shaira, a former councillor, said the ritual made the Kalash untouchables for Muslims and other communities, and Kalash villages were declared no-go areas
CHITRAL: The chairmen of different village councils have castigated the government for denying them powers, development funds, salaries and other perks and privileges. Addressing a press conference here, Sajjad Ahmed Khan, Shahid Ahmed, Mir Dulla Jan, Manzoor Ahmed, Muneer Ahmed Charwelu, Sania Aziz, Anabia Bibi and others regretted the government had promised a hefty salary
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PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa caretaker cabinet at a meeting on Tuesday authorized different departments to utilize their buildings at spare times for launching skill development classes for youth under the Khushal Pakhtunkhwa Program. These departments are: Elementary and Secondary Education, Technical Education, Industries and Labour, health and other line departments. The special meeting of the
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Gul Hamad Farooqui BOONI: Young Star Development Organization (YSDO) in collaboration with Center for Peace and Development Initiative (CPDE) and Citizen Network for Budget Accountability (CNBA) held an awareness creating workshop in Booni, the district headquarters of Upper Chitral. The theme of the seminar was \”Stakeholders dialogue on transparent budgeting.\” Former nazim Union Council Reshun
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PESHAWAR: The recently-constituted Task Force on Technical Education and Skill Development met here on Monday to thrash out a line of action to implement the strategy of the provincial government to export 0.5 million trained human resource to various countries. The meeting with Caretaker Chief Minister Syed Arshad Hussain Shah in the chair decided to
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PESHAWAR: Caretaker Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Syed Arshad Hussain Shah on Sunday inaugurated the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computing at COMSATS University Abbottabad campus. This pioneering centre, the first of its kind in Pakistan, is set to provide advanced quantum computing education to the youth, aligning with international standards. During the inauguration ceremony on
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CHITRAL: An American hunted a nine-and-half-year-old Kashmir Markhor in Toshi Shasha conservancy of Lower Chitral on Saturday. He had got a permit for trophy hunting from wildlife department at a cost of 212,000 dollars. Divisional forest officer, wildlife division Chitral, Farooq Nabi told Dawn that unlike the previous trophy hunters, the American national, Deron James
LAHORE: In a first experiment of its kind, caretaker Punjab government on Saturday used artificial rain in a bid to combat hazardous levels of smog in Lahore. Planes equipped with cloud seeding equipment were flown over 10 areas of the city, often ranked one of the worst places globally for air pollution. Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister
