CHITRAL: The construction of Istaru bridge in Upper Chitral has entered the final stage over which people of Torkhow have expressed a sigh of relief. Construction of Istaru bridge faced delays after the dilapidated bridge near the village collapsed when an empty dumper was crossing it, killing the driver, in March 2000. The people of
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Female television anchors in Afghanistan have been directe by the Taliban government to wear hijab among other orders to the media. The instructions, comprising eight points, were read out by the Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Maulvi Muhammad Khalid Hanafi during a meeting with journalists on Sunday. According to Afghan
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When Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry apologised to the ECP for his intemperate words against its members recently, he said that — as the government’s spokesman — “At times I say things but the words uttered are not my own.” However, while addressing a consultative conference on terrorism in Islamabad on Thursday, he seemed to have
Put our house in order, as there is an urgent need for a national agenda to pull Pakistan out of its current crises and take it on the path of democracy, said PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif. In a speech delivered from London to the Asma Jahangir Conference held in Lahore, the former prime minister once
LOS ANGELES: An armoured truck spilled huge wads of cash across a California freeway on Friday, prompting chaotic scenes as drivers stopped to scoop up banknotes. Cash on California freeway. But motorists hoping to line their pockets with an unexpected pre-Thanksgiving windfall were thwarted, as police cracked down and arrested two people. “There’s a lot
