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WAPDA asked to pay compensation for crops destroyed during installation of transmission lines

CHITRAL: People affected by the installation of transmission lines from Golen Gol have called upon the hovernment to pay them compensation for which they have been waiting for over three years. Talking to this correspondent here, Muhkam Uddin, Rehmat Wali Khan and other representatives of the people on whose agricultural and other land the towers […]

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Authority\’s role to regulate private schools demanded

CHITRAL: Local residents have demanded the extension of the role of the Private Schools Regulatory Authority to Chitral region to check exploitation by private schools. In a statement issued here on Tuesday, Jughoor village nazim Sajjad Ahmed Khan said Chitral district had more than 200 privately-owned schools, which needed to be regulated. He said unfortunately,

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The crime-busting women of Kalash

By Ehtesham Khan PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) police force has inducted 83 people from Chitral’s ancient Kalash tribe, including 11 women during the last five years.District Police Officer Chitral Furqan Bilal says the police department is proud of its Kalah members. The force has hire 67 as special police officers, five as permanent constables, six as members of the woman

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Drug peddling my political necessity, says arrested councillor

CHITRAL: A youth councillor held by the police for drug trafficking on Monday justified his offence, insisting he will lose the forthcoming local body polls if he abandons the drug ‘business’. “Youths will not vote for me,” he told reporters after arrest. Member of Broze village council Fazle Nabi was arrested with 2.1kg charas, while

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