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CHITRAL: Representatives of political parties here said the decision to observe a protest lockdown against shelving of Chakdara-Chitral expessway by the PTI government would be finalized at an all parties\’ conference to be held in Dir on Aug 8. The representatives attended a meeting of the Chakdara-Chitral expressway action committee with former district nazim Maghfirat

ISLAMABAD: The police in federal capital submitted a report to Supreme Court conceding that they are still waiting for replies from different departments to know who had kidnapped senior journalist Matiullah Jan. “Efforts are underway to trace the culprits involved in the incident and in this regard the reports of various departments are awaited to

AYUN: Six staffers of Rural Health Centre (RHC) Ayun and four other people have been found infected with coronavirus. Moreover, samples of six other employees of the hospital have been sent for test and the results are awaited, officials told ChitralToday.  After the emergence of the new cases, the health authorities closed the RHC for

CHITRAL: Martyrs of police were paid tributes in Chitral like in other parts of the country on Aug 4. Scores of policemen belonging to Chitral sacrificed their lives against terrorists in different parts of the province during the last about two decades. On Aug 4 every year, the nation pays tributes to the police martyrs.

LOWER DIR: The opposition parties and civil society activists from Lower and Upper Dir, Chitral and Bajaur districts have announced to launch an agitation campaign to resist the government plan to drop the Chakdara-Chitral Expressway project. The issue has gained significance since the government allocated funds for the Chakdara-Swat Motorway in the current year’s PSDP.